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The nation's largest and oldest graduate school for education, Teacher's College Columbia University is located in New York City. Established in 1887, Teacher's College Columbia University is the leading college for devising, designing and implementing education reforms to restore creativity, standards and accountability to the education process. The college embraces three main fields: education, psychology and health. Founded in 1887 as the New York school For the Training of Teachers, the name was changed to Teacher's College just six years later. In 1898, the college became affiliated with Columbia University in 1898.

The Teacher's College Columbia University has nine academic departments: Arts and Humanities; Behavioral Sciences; Counseling and Clinical Psychology; Curriculum and Teaching; Health and Behavior Studies; Human Development; International and Transcultural Studies; Mathematics, Science and Technology and Organization and Leadership. Teacher's College Columbia University has over 100 Master's and doctorate degree programs. Additionally, Teacher's College Columbia University offers these other areas of interest in a continuing education setting: Conflict resolution, education policy studies, family and community education, interdisciplinary studies in education, law and educational institutions, urban education and a doctoral degree in education leadership.

Named as the number one graduate school for education by U.S. News and World Report for three consecutive years, the college has a long and distinguished history of providing education for future educators. Among its' former college presidents is a Pulitzer Prize winner and the college had then First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton as its first guest lecturer for the Jill and Ken Iscol Lecture series. Over 5,000 students enroll at Teacher's College Columbia University each year.



Quick Facts:

More than 40 percent of students at Teacher's College Columbia University receive some form of financial aid.

Students from all over the world enroll at the Teacher's College Columbia University. The school has students from more than 80 countries and more than 10 percent of the total student population is from outside of the United States.

Teacher's College Columbia University just completed a successful $140 million fundraising campaign and the school has an endowment of $155 million.

The Milbank Memorial Library houses more than 750,000,000 titles in its research collections, which include more than 193,000 volumes in the special collections. In addition, the college has more than 3,000 periodical titles and 90,0000 photographs and prints.

When President John F. Kennedy established the Peace Corps in 1961, Teacher's College Columbia University trained the volunteer instructors for the "Teachers for East Africa" program.

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