Diplomas

Diplomas are the physical manifestation of your degrees. They typically bear your name, the degree you received, the Columbia Seal, and the signatures of the university president and the dean of your school. You get them during Commencement week.

Columbia's standard diploma size isn't actually standard at all, which means you have to pay for the overpriced frames sold in the bookstore or get a frame custom made.

Law School diplomas are distinct from the standard diploma in that they're significantly larger, though they otherwise look the same. Barnard College degrees/diplomas are conferred by the trustees of Columbia University (as part of the Columbia-Barnard Intercorporate Agreement) , and include the seals of both schools.

If your diploma gets damaged or lost and you want to get it replaced, you need to send $100 along with a notarized application to the Registrar. [1] While the new diploma will display your date of graduation, it will bear the signatures of the current university president and dean of your school, who may be different from when you graduated.

Columbia College Diploma Translation

We, The Trustees of Columbia University
In The City Of New York, Formerly King's College,
Present Our Greetings To Each And Every One
To Whom This Document May Come. We Inform You That

[Graduate's Name]

Has Duly And Lawfully Completed All
Requirements Appropriate To The Degree Of

Bachelor Of Arts

And Has Accordingly Been Advanced To That
Degree With All Rights, Priveleges And Honors
Customarily Pertaining Thereto.
In Fuller Testimony Of This Action, We Have Ensured That The Signatures Of The President
Of The University And Of The Dean Of Columbia College
As Well As Our Common Seal Be Affixed To This Diploma.
Done At New York On The [Day & Month]
In [The Year].

• Taken from the "Translation of the A.B., BACHELOR OF ARTS diploma" photocopy that is included with every CC diploma.

Gallery

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  CC BA 1935

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  CC BA 2004

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  CC BA 2007

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  Columbia's most prestigious degree

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  Michael Pupin's Pulitzer Prize (which apparently is a recycled diploma)

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  BC BA 2005

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  SEAS BS 2003

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  CLS JD

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  Nikola Tesla's honorary doctorate 1894