Columbia's departments of Anthropology, Economics, History, Political Science, and Sociology are steeped in a tradition of intellectual distinction and social inquiry.

Columbia Engineering offers an unparalleled breadth of majors and minors, professional-level courses, hands-on design projects, and research and internships both in New York City and around the world.

Computer Science majors at Columbia study an integrated curriculum including areas with an immediate relationship to the computer, such as programming languages, operating systems and mathematics.

Biology majors are offered a plethora of choice including study in molecular biology, neurobiology, developmental biology, cell biology, structural biology, biophysics and chemical biology.

Columbia's Department of English and Comparative Literature offers offers a wide range of courses recognising traditional values in the discipline yet reflecting its changing shape.

Maths majors are exposed to all the main branches of modern mathematics; algebra, analysis, and geometry, as well as their subdivisions and hybrids such a number theory and differential geometr