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Ranked. New York, United States. =18th in World University Rankings 2025. About. Basic information and contact details for Columbia University. Founded in 1754 as King’s College by Royal Charter of King George II of England, Columbia is the oldest university in the state of New York and one of the oldest in the US.
- World University Rankings 2025 | Times Higher Education (THE)
Oxford holds on to the top spot for the ninth consecutive...
- World University Rankings 2025 | Times Higher Education (THE)
Oxford holds on to the top spot for the ninth consecutive year, bolstered by significant improvements in industry engagement and teaching. MIT rises to second place, overtaking Stanford, which drops to sixth. China edges closer to the top 10, further boosting its global research influence.
Columbia University is one of the top private universities in New York City, United States. It is ranked #=34 in QS World University Rankings 2025. #
Columbia University is ranked #9 in Best Global Universities. Schools are ranked according to their performance across a set of widely accepted indicators of excellence.
ARWU uses six objective indicators to rank world universities, including the number of alumni and staff winning Nobel Prizes and Fields Medals, number of highly cited researchers selected by Clarivate, number of articles published in journals of Nature and Science, number of articles indexed in Science Citation Index Expanded™ and Social ...
It has a total undergraduate enrollment of 8,902 (fall 2022), and the campus size is 36 acres. Columbia University's ranking in the 2025 edition of Best Colleges is National Universities, #13.
In 2021, Columbia was ranked seventh in the world (sixth in the United States) by Academic Ranking of World Universities, sixth in the world by U.S. News & World Report, 19th in the world by QS World University Rankings, and 11th globally by Times Higher Education World University Rankings.
