Columbia University

Columbia Universit

officially Columbia University in the City of New York) is a  Ivy League research university in Upper Manhattan, New York City. Originally established in 1754 as

King's College by royal charter of George II of Great Britain, it is the oldest institution of higher learning in New York State, as well as one of the country's nine colonial colleges

After the revolutionary war, King's College briefly became a state entity, and was renamed Columbia College in 1 1787784. A charter placed the institution

 under a private board of trustees before it was further renamed Columbia University in 1896 when the campus was moved from Madison Avenue to its  land of 32 acres 

 Columbia is one of the fourteen founding members of the Association of American Universities, and was the first school in the United States to grant the M.D. degree

 has affiliation with several other institutions nearby, including Teachers College,

e University is organized into twenty schools alongside global research outposts in Amman, 

 Barnard College, and Union Theological Seminary, with joint undergraduate programs available through the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, Sciences Po Paris and 

Columbia annually administers the Pulitzer Prize.It is

 regularly placed among the best universities worldwide by a nu of the United States; nine Justices of the United States Supreme , including three United States Presidents.Additionally, 101 Nobel Prize laureates have been affiliated with it as students, faculty, or staff

Discussions regarding the founding of a college in the Province of New York began as early as 1704, when Colonel Lewis Morris wrote to the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, 

the missionary arm of the Church of England, persuading the society that New York City was an ideal community in which to establish a college however, not until the founding of Princeton University across the Hudson River in New Jersey did the City of New York seriously consider founding a college.

In 1746 an act was passed by the general assembly of New York to raise funds for the foundation of a new college. In 1751, the assembly appointed  of ten New 

York residents, seven of whom were members of the Church of England, to direct the funds accrued by the state lottery the foundation of a

Classes were initially held in July 1754 and were presided over by the college's first president, Dr. Samuel Johnson. Dr. Johnson was the only instructor of the c

st class, which consisted of a mere eight students. Instruction was held in a new schoolhous adjoining Trinity Church, located on what is now lower Broadway in

he college was officially founded on October 31, 1754, as King's College by royal charter of King George II, making it the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York and the fifth oldest in the United States.

In 1763, Dr. Johnson was succeeded in the presidency by Myles Cooper, a graduate of The Queen's College, Oxford, and an ardent Tory. In the charged political climate of the American Revolution, his chief opponent in discussions at the College was an undergraduate of the class of 1777, Alexander Hamilto

 The American Revolutionary War broke out in 1776, and was catastrophic for the operation of King's College, which suspended instruction for eight years beginning in 1776 with the arrival of the Continental Army. The suspension continued through

 the military occupation of New York City by British troops until their departure in 1783. The college's library was looted and its sole building requisitioned for use as a military hospital first by American and then British forces

 Loyalists were forced to abandon their King's College in New York, which was seized by the rebels and renamed Columbia University. The Loyalists, led by Bishop Charles Inglis fled to Windsor, Nova Scotia, where th