Columbia rose to No. 12 in the U.S. News & World Report 2026 Best National Universities ranking published early Tuesday morning, surpassing Brown University and Cornell University, and tying with ...

Columbia agreed Monday to pay $16.1 million to settle a class action lawsuit over a June 2025 data breach which exposed the personal information of nearly 870,000 applicants and University affiliates.

President Donald Trump proposed bringing funding from the National Institutes of Health under the control of the White House in a Friday Oval Office meeting, where concerns also arose about the ...

Three Columbia students filed a federal class action lawsuit Friday over the University’s handling of the May 7, 2025, pro-Palestinian protest at Butler Library, alleging Public Safety officers locked ...

The Faculty of Arts and Sciences has hired 26 new full-time faculty members for the 2026-27 academic year, the FAS announced earlier this month. The new professors and lecturers span 13 academic ...

Mahmoud Khalil, SIPA ’24, and Palestine Working Group president Ibrahim Zubairi, SIPA ’26, and 13 other student activists announced a new federal lawsuit against the University and School of ...

Barnard opened the Roy and Diana Vagelos Science Center this academic year after over two years of construction and a $250 million budget amid a mounting debt crisis. The center retrofits the ...

Columbia has prohibited the use of electronic devices in all Literature Humanities and Contemporary Civilization sections starting this fall, 12 syllabi for the courses reviewed by Spectator show and ...

At noon on a typical weekday in fall 2021, students looking for lunch joined lines flowing out of Columbia’s two main dining options: John Jay Dining Hall and Ferris Booth Commons. Once inside, ...

The Internal Revenue Service proposed Friday to revoke the tax-exempt status of universities that promote diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives—over a year after Columbia curtailed DEI-related ...

Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s office came out in support of an open Columbia campus on Thursday, siding with community members who have been rallying against the University’s gate closures for almost two ...

More than nine decades after the Journalism School announced its shift to graduate-only instruction in 1935 and nixed its undergraduate major, Columbia is beginning to reverse course. The school will ...