Columbia University

Address: 116th St & Broadway, New York, NY 10027, United-states

Admission rate: 7% (2013)

Number of participants: 29 250 (2013)

Phone: +1 212-854-1754

Founder:  George II de Grande-Bretagne

Foundation date: 1754

Devise: In lumine Tuo videbimus lumen

Web site: www.columbia.edu

The University Columbia occupies in 2013 the 8th place of the most prestigious universities in the world. It thus keeps the same place from last year. Installed to New York on two campuses, one said historic and the second modern, it is recognized internationally as a major training center. Its "schools" range of Arts and architecture, to medicine by marketing, journalism or law. Subsidized by the State and private companies, it enjoys an important budget of over EUR 2 billion. Each year, it welcomes in its walls nearly 5,000 foreign students. And his reputation also benefits from the Obama effect since the current President American completed his graduate studies.

Note on 100: 59.8

Number of students: 21 817

Country: United States

Position in 2012: 8^th