| Location: | Northeast |
| Setting: | Large City Setting |
| Type: | Private |
| Size: | Medium (2,000 to 5,000 Undergrad) |
| Mascot: | Lions |
Barnard College is a prestigious women's liberal arts college founded in 1889. Barnard is affiliated with Columbia University, but Barnard maintains an independent campus in the Morningside Heights neighborhood in the borough of Manhattan, in New York City, and separate faculty, administration, trustees, operating budget, and endowment.
The four acre (16,000 m²) campus stretches along Broadway between 116th and 120th Streets, adjacent to Columbia's campus, and has been used by Barnard since 1898. The neighborhood is sometimes called the Academic Acropolis; as well as being on a hill, the area is home to numerous academic institutions including the Bank Street College of Education, Jewish Theological Seminary, Manhattan School of Music, Teachers College, and Union Theological Seminary.
Barnard is a member of the group of women's colleges known as the Seven Sisters, which are considered to be the most prestigious and selective women's colleges in the United States.
Barnard College is a Seven Sisters college that is an official college of Columbia University and maintains its status as an independent institution. Barnard's original 1889 home was a rented brownstone at 343 Madison Avenue, where a faculty of six offered instruction to 14 students in the School of Arts, as well as to 22 "specials," who lacked the entrance requirements in Greek and so enrolled in science. In 1900, Barnard was included in the educational system of Columbia University, but it continued to be independently governed, while making available to its students the instruction and the facilities. Barnard currently pays an annual fee to Columbia to maintain the affiliation.
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| Percent of Students International: | 3% |
| On-Campus Housing Available: | Yes |
| Percent of Students Living On-Campus: | 91% |
| Freshman Students Required to Live on Campus: | Yes |
| Member of: | NAA, NCAA |
| Sports Include: |
Basketball (Ivy Group) Track (Ivy Group) |
| Tuition & Fees (undergraduate) | Expenses | ||
Published Tuition and Fees: |
$ 30,676 | ||
Average Tuition for Full-Time Undergrads: |
$ 29,364 | ||
Required Fees for Full-Time Undergrads: |
$ 1,312 | ||
| Financial Aid | Avg. Amount Received | % of Students Receiving Aid | |
Federal Grants: |
$ 4,089 | 18% | |
State and Local Grants: |
$ 4,153 | 17% | |
Institutional Grants: |
$ 18,597 | 38% | |
Student Loans: |
$ 4,449 | 35% | |
Any Aid: |
55% |
| Acceptance Rate: | 27% (Most Selective) |
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| % of Students Submitting SAT Scores: | 86% |
| Bottom 25th Percentile: | Verbal: 650, Math: 640 |
| Top 75th Percentile: | Verbal: 740, Math: 710 |
| Application Fee: | $ 45.00 |
| Formal Demonstration of Competencies: | Not Required |
| High School Diploma or Equivalent: | Not Required |
| High School GPA: | Recommended |
| High School Rank: | Recommended |
| High School Record: | Recommended |
| Recommendations: | Recommended |
| TOEFL: | Required |
| Test Scores: | Required |
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Question:
Barnard College or Princeton University?
Barnard-an all girls college in NYC
Princeton-an ivy league school in nearby New Jersey
Which would you vote on for a liberal arts pupil interested in politics and Middle Eastern studies?
12 months ago
Best Answer
Barnard at Columbia definitely beats Princeton in politics and Middle Eastern studies. Barnard is apart of Columbia University, so it is also Ivy League. Plus NYC rocks!
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If one is a student at Barnard, are they a student at Columbia?
14 months ago
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Q. What are the origins of Barnard's affiliation with Columbia?
A. Barnard was founded after Frederick A.P. Barnard, Columbia's president from 1864 to 1889, argued unsuccessfully for the admission of women to the University. A key player in the founding of Barnard was Annie Nathan Meyer, who had enrolled in Columbia's "Collegiate Course for Women" and found it decidedly inferior to the education men received at the University.
Barnard College opened its doors in 1889, and moved from a rented midtown brownstone to its own Morningside Heights campus in 1897, the same year Columbia moved uptown. Barnard formally affiliated with the University in 1900.
Q. Is Barnard an independent college?
A. Yes. We are legally separate and financially independent from Columbia University. Specifically, we have our own campus, administration, faculty, students, trustees, endowment, operating budget, and degree requirements, and we are accredited separately by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education. We pay annual fees to Columbia to cover the costs of library use, faculty exchange, instruction, telecommunications and other services. And we are on our own when it comes to fundraising; in other words, we must raise our own money for everything from faculty research to campus renovation.
Q. How do Barnard and Columbia students benefit from the affiliation?
A. Obviously, Barnard students derive tremendous social and academic benefits from their college's partnership with a great coeducational research university. It is widely known that Barnard students can take classes at Columbia, and that they have full access to Butler Library and other University resources. When they graduate, they receive a Columbia University degree, as do students of Columbia College, because degrees are granted only by the University, not by the undergraduate colleges of the University. Barnard students who meet the relevant qualifications can enroll in accelerated graduate-degree programs that Barnard sponsors with Columbia's School of International & Public Affairs and the Columbia Law School. In athletics, Barnard students can join the University's varsity teams and compete at the NCAA Division I level.
Unfortunately, much less attention is publicly paid to the benefits Columbia students derive from this partnership. Cross-registration flows both ways across Broadway, and in an average year, Columbia undergraduates attend 6,300 courses at Barnard. Columbia students majoring in or otherwise interested in dance, theater, architecture and urban studies benefit enormously from the Barnard connection, because in these disciplines, Barnard runs the official undergraduate programs for the entire University. Barnard also offers a program in teacher education for all University undergraduates.
Q. How does the affiliation with Columbia affect the Barnard faculty?
A. It profoundly affects our faculty members through all stages of their careers. Barnard and Columbia collaborate on faculty hiring in order to avoid duplication of resources, and Barnard faculty members teach about 40 graduate courses a year at Columbia. Barnard faculty members who are up for tenure must pass a review by the University once they have passed successfully through the College's own review process. It's a difficult double trial for our professors, but successful candidates join the tenured faculty ranks of both a superior liberal arts college and an Ivy League research university. So while our Columbia affiliation presents unique challenges to our faculty, it also helps Barnard attract top scholars-those who might otherwise not be attracted to a small liberal arts college, however excellent its reputation.
Q. How has the relationship between the two institutions changed over time?
A. Of course, the most significant changes occurred immediately before and after Columbia went co-ed in 1983. That was a very difficult period for Barnard, and thanks to the wisdom, strength and resolve of my predecessors -whose words and actions represented the overwhelming sentiment of the alumnae, the trustees, and the rest of the Barnard community-Barnard maintained its autonomy and successfully renegotiated its position within the University. I have made it a priority to build on that great accomplishment, and since I came to Barnard in 1994, I have worked with Columbia's president to continually raise the level of communication, coordination and reciprocity between our two institutions.
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15 months ago
Best Answer
Assuming your internship is nearby, and not in Oshkosh, yes, Plimpton is, for a college dorm in NYC, not bad. And Morningside Heights is a great place to live with all sorts of shops, restaurants, etc catering to a student clientele. MacIntosh Hall is older.
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