Columbia University in the City of New York (Columbia University) is a private research university in Manhattan, New York City and one of the eight members of the Ivy League. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country’s nine Colonial Colleges founded before the American Revolution. It was founded in 1754 as King’s College by royal charter of George II of Great Britain, and is one of only three United States universities to have been established under such authority.

Columbia’s main campus occupies more than six city blocks, or 32 acres, in Morningside Heights, New York City. New York-Presbyterian Hospital is affiliated with medical schools of both Columbia University and Cornell University. According to the US News and World Reports “Americas Best Hospitals 2009”, it is ranked sixth overall and third among university hospitals. Columbia Medical School has a strategic partnership with New York State Psychiatric Institute, and is affiliated with nineteen other hospitals in the U.S. and four hospitals overseas.

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