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Columbia University
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Columbia University
Columbia University
(officially
Columbia University in the City of New York
) is a
private
,
Ivy League
,
research university
in
Upper Manhattan
,
New York City
. It was established in 1754 as
King's College
by
royal charter
of
George II of Great Britain
and is the oldest college in
New York State
as well as the fifth chartered institution of
higher learning
in the country, making Columbia
one of nine colonial colleges
founded before the
Declaration of Independence
. After the
revolutionary war
, King's College briefly became a state entity, and was renamed Columbia College in 1784. A 1787 charter placed the institution under a private board of trustees before it was renamed Columbia University in 1896 when the campus was moved from
Madison Avenue
to its current location in
Morningside Heights
occupying land of . 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
.
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