- Columbia Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
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Columbia University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences 
Established First discipline created 1880 School type Private Dean Henry C. Pinkham Location New York, New York, USA Enrollment ~6,000 students Homepage www.columbia.edu/cu/gsas The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at Columbia University (also known as GSAS) is the branch of the university that grants academic degrees, including M.A.'s and Ph.D.'s., in fields not covered by the university's professional or other schools.
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History
GSAS began to take shape in the late 19th century, when Columbia, until then a primarily undergraduate institution with a few professional attachments, began to establish graduate faculties in several fields: Political Science (1880), Philosophy (1890), and Pure Science (1892). The graduate faculties, notably, were open to women at a time when many other Columbia schools were not; Columbia College did not become a coeducational institution until 1983. The first Ph.D. awarded by Columbia was handed out in 1882; the first woman to receive one did so in 1886.
The increasing professionalization of the university brought with it an emphasis on the graduate schools, as presidents such as Seth Low and Nicholas Murray Butler sought to emulate the success of German universities during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Indeed, in the effort to produce as many graduate degree-holders as possible, attempts were made to streamline undergraduate life and center academic life in the graduate-focused departments. Such efforts led to resistance among Columbia College administrators and undergraduates, arguably one of the contributing factors in the 1968 protests. Nevertheless, graduate research has flourished at Columbia as a result, and the university has been among the top producers of Ph. Ds in the United States from the inception of the graduate disciplines. In the early 1990s, GSAS and Columbia College faculty were all absorbed into a consolidated Faculty of Arts and Sciences, with familiar complaints among undergraduates and their advocates.
List of Academic Departments
African-American Studies
African Studies Certificate
American Studies (Liberal Studies M.A.)
Anatomy and Cell Biology
Anthropology
Applied Mathematics
Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
Architecture (History and Theory)
Art History and Archaeology
Astronomy
Atmospheric and Planetary Science
Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics
Biological Sciences
Biomedical Engineering
Biomedical Informatics
Biostatistics
Biotechnology
Buddhist Studies
Business
Cell Biology and Pathobiology
Cellular, Molecular, and Biophysical Studies
Chemical Biology
Chemical Engineering
Chemical Physics
Chemistry
Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
Classical Studies
Classics
Climate and Society
Communications
Comparative Literature and Society
Computer Science
Conservation Biology
Dental Sciences
Earth and Environmental Engineering (Henry Krumb School of Mines)
Earth and Environmental Science Journalism
Earth and Environmental Sciences
East Asia: Regional Studies
East Asian Languages and Cultures
East Asian Studies (Liberal Studies M.A.)
Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology
Economics
Education
Electrical Engineering
English and Comparative Literature
Environmental Health Sciences
Epidemiology
French and Romance Philology
French Cultural Studies in a Global Context
Genetics and Development
Germanic Languages
History
Human Rights
Human Rights Studies
Industrial Engineering & Operations Research
International and World History, Dual Degree M.A./M.Sc.
Islamic Studies (Liberal Studies M.A.)
Italian
J.D./Ph.D. Program
Japanese Pedagogy
Jewish Studies
Jewish Studies (Liberal Studies M.A.)
Journalism
Latin America and Caribbean; Regional Studies
M.D./Ph.D.
Materials Science and Engineering/Solid State Science and Engineering
Mathematical Structures for Environmental & Social Sciences
Mathematics
Mathematics of Finance
Mechanical Engineering
Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Medieval Studies (Liberal Studies M.A.)
Microbiology
Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies
Middle East Studies, Certificate
Modern Art, Critical, and Curatorial Studies
Modern European Studies (Liberal Studies M.A.)
Museum Anthropology
Music
Neurobiology and Behavior
Nutrition
Operations Research
Oral History
Pathology and Cell Biology
Pharmacology
Philosophical Foundations of Physics
Physics
Physiology and Cellular Biophysics
Political Science
Psychology
Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences
Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences, dual degree MA/MPA
Religion
Religion-Journalism Dual MA/MS
Russia, Eurasia and East Europe: Regional Studies M.A. Program
Russian Translation
Slavic Cultures
Slavic Languages
Social Work
Sociology
Sociomedical Sciences
South Asian Studies (Liberal Studies M.A.)
Spanish and Portuguese
Statistics
Sustainable Development
Theatre
Urban Planning
Yiddish Studies
Political Science
Notable alumni
Economists
- Arthur Burns - economist, Ph.D., 1934
- Milton Friedman - economist, Ph.D., 1946
- Kenneth Arrow - economist, Ph.D., 1951
Historians
- Jacques Barzun - historian, Ph.D. 1932
- Charles Beard - historian, Ph.D. 1904
- Lawrence Cremin - historian, M.A. 1947, Ph.D. 1949
- Richard Hofstadter - historian, Ph.D. 1942
- Bruce Cumings - historian, Ph.D. 1975
- Stanley Payne -- historian, Ph.D. 1959
- Howard Zinn -- historian, Ph.D. 1958
Literature
- Jacob M. Appel - writer and bioethicist, M.A., 2000
- John Ashbery - poet, 1951
- Isaac Asimov - science fiction writer, M.A. 1941
- Paul Auster - writer, M.A., 1970
- Randolph Bourne - antiwar essayist, M.A. 1913
- Rachel Blau DuPlessis - literary critic, M.A. 1964, Ph.D. 1970
- Jason Epstein - writer, M.A., 1950
- John Erskine - literary scholar, Ph.D. 1903
- James Goldman - writer, 1952
- William Goldman - screenwriter, 1956
- Naomi Foner Gyllenhaal - screenwriter
- Carolyn Heilbrun - writer, M.A. 1951, Ph.D. 1959
- Joseph Heller - writer, 1949
- Zora Neale Hurston - writer, 1935
- Alfred Kazin - literary critic, 1958
- Kenneth Koch - poet, M.A. 1953, Ph.D. 1959
- Joseph Wood Krutch - writer, M.A. 1916, Ph.D. 1929
- David Lehman - poet, Ph.D. 1978
- Peter Straub - writer, 1966
- Lionel Trilling - literary critic, M.A. 1926, Ph.D. 1938
- Anne Tyler - novelist, 1962
- Mark Van Doren - writer, Ph.D. 1920
- Stark Young - critic and writer, 1902
Philosophers
- Mortimer Adler - Ph.D. in psychology, 1928
- Arthur Danto - M.A. 1949, Ph.D. in philosophy, 1952
- Irwin Edman - Ph.D. in philosophy, 1919
- Hu Shih - public intellectual in China, Ph.D. 1917
Natural scientists
- Jacqueline Barton - chemist, 1979
- Niles Eldredge - paleontologist, Ph.D. 1969
- Stephen Jay Gould - paleontologist, Ph.D. 1967
Performing arts
- Kenneth Ascher, DMA – jazz pianist, composer – 1966 CC; 1968 GSAS; 1971 SOA
- Art Garfunkel - musician, 1967
- Will Geer - actor
- Edward Everett Horton - actor, 1909
- John Kander - composer, 1954
- Bernard Malamud - writer, 1942
- Thomas Merton - Catholic writer, 1939
Social scientists
- Ruth Benedict - anthropologist, Ph.D. 1923
- Theos Casimir Bernard - explorer and religionist, M.A. 1936, Ph.D. 1943
- Kenneth B. Clark - educational psychologist, Ph.D. 1940
- Mamie Phipps Clark - educational psychologist, Ph.D. 1943
- Gilberto Freyre — Brazilian sociologist, cultural anthropologist and historian, M.A. 1922
- Margaret Mead - anthropologist, Ph.D. 1929
Statesmen
- B. R. Ambedkar - a founding father of India, M.A. 1915, Ph.D. 1928
- Nicholas Murray Butler - diplomat and President of Columbia University, Ph.D. 1884
- Benjamin Cardozo - jurist, M.A. 1890
- Wellington Koo - Chinese diplomat, Ph.D. 1912
- Robert Moses urban planner, Ph.D. 1914
- Frances Perkins - US Secretary of Labor, M.A. 1910
- Brent Scowcroft - US National Security Advisor, M.A. and Ph.D. in international relations, 1967
- Mark Wyland - California State Senator, M.A. in political science, 1969
Visual arts
- Donald Clarence Judd - sculptor, 1961
- Agnes Martin - painter, M.A. 1952
- Meyer Schapiro - art historian, Ph.D. 1929
Other
- Herman Hollerith - inventor, Ph.D. 1890
- Sam Levenson - comedian, 1938
- John McCaffery - newscaster
- Richard P. Mills - former Commissioner of Education for both Vermont and New York States, M.A. 1967
- Madeleine B. Stern - rare book expert, M.A. 1934
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