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<div>Columbia's [[faculty]] is arranged into 79 '''Departments of Instruction'''. 78 of these are affiliated with various faculties. One, the [[Department of Physical Education]], stands unaffiliated with any faculty.<br />
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==Departments==<br />
===Faculty of Arts and Sciences (844, Est. 1880) ===<br />
The Faculty of Arts and Sciences is organized into 30 departments of instruction, typically split into 5 categories<br />
Numbers refer to the number of full-time faculty reported<br />
by [http://www.columbia.edu/cu/opir/abstract/full_time_faculty.htm OPIR].<br />
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====Humanities (327) ====<br />
# [[Art History and Archaeology]]<br />
# [[Classics]]<br />
# [[East Asian Languages and Cultures]]<br />
# [[English and Comparative Literature]]<br />
# [[French and Romance Philology]]<br />
# [[Germanic Languages]]<br />
# [[Italian]]<br />
# [[Middle East and Asian Languages and Cultures]]<br />
# [[Music]]<br />
# [[Philosophy]]<br />
# [[Religion]]<br />
# [[Slavic Languages]]<br />
# [[Spanish and Portuguese]]<br />
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====Social Sciences (218) ====<br />
# [[Anthropology]]<br />
# [[Economics]]<br />
# [[History Department|History]]<br />
# [[SIPA|International and Public Affairs]] (which is also a whole Faculty, Est. 1946)<br />
# [[Political Science]]<br />
# [[Sociology]]<br />
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====Natural Sciences (217) ====<br />
# [[Astronomy]]<br />
# [[Biological Sciences]]<br />
# [[Chemistry]]<br />
# [[Earth and Environmental Sciences]]<br />
# [[Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Biology]]<br />
# [[Mathematics]]<br />
# [[Physics]]<br />
# [[Psychology]]<br />
# [[Statistics]]<br />
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====Continuing Education (19, Est. 2002) ====<br />
[[Continuing Education]] is a faculty, a department of instruction, and school all in one.<br />
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====Arts (63, Est. 1948) ====<br />
[[School of the Arts|Arts]] is a faculty, department of instruction, and school all in one as well. Within itself, SoA has 4 'divisions' but these are internal designations, and not part of the university-wide designations.<br />
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=== Morningside Professional (468) ===<br />
(note that 5 of the schools are also departments; Only Engineering, the largest of the Schools, is subdivided into 9 departments)<br />
====Engineering (152, Est. 1864) ====<br />
"Number of faculty teaching in: applied physics/applied math (29), biomedical (19), chemical (10), civil (13), computer science (35), computer engineering (10), electrical (20), environmental (15), industrial/operations research (16), materials (9), mechanical (11), others (1)"<br />
# Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics<br />
# Biomedical Engineering<br />
# Chemical Engineering<br />
# Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics<br />
# Computer Science<br />
# Earth and Environmental Engineering (formerly "Mining, Metallurgical, and Mineral Engineering (Henry Krumb School of Mines))<br />
# Electrical Engineering<br />
# Industrial Engineering and Operations Research<br />
# Mechanical Engineering<br />
<br />
====Business (131, Est. 1916) ====<br />
Business does not have "departments", it has "divisions". Almost half of the faculty are in the Finance and Economics division.<br />
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# [http://www4.gsb.columbia.edu/accounting/faculty accounting] (12)<br />
# [http://www4.gsb.columbia.edu/management/faculty management] (22)<br />
# [http://www4.gsb.columbia.edu/finance/faculty finance and economics]* (60)<br />
# [http://www4.gsb.columbia.edu/marketing/faculty marketing] (16)<br />
# [http://www4.gsb.columbia.edu/dro/resources/people Decision, Risk and Operations] (19)<br />
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* Note that there is also a department of economics<br />
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====Law (89, Est. 1858) ====<br />
====Social Work (43, Est. 1898) ====<br />
====J-school (30, Est. 1912) ====<br />
====Architecture (GSAPP) (23, Est. 1896) ====<br />
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=== Athletics (70) ===<br />
=== Medical Center (2163) ===<br />
==== Clinical Health Sciences (1667) ====<br />
Note that, for 2000-2006, Clinical Health Sciences accounted for,<br />
on average, %48 of total faculty.<br />
# Anesthesiology<br />
# Biomedical Informatics<br />
# Dermatology<br />
# Medicine, which claims [http://www.columbiamedicine.org/about/index.shtml "faculty of over 1300 physicians and scientists"], further subdivided into<br />
## Allen Pavilion<br />
## Cardiology<br />
## Clinical Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics<br />
## Digestive & Liver Diseases<br />
## Endocrinology<br />
## Behavioral Cardiovascular Health Hypertension Program <br />
## General Medicine<br />
## Geriatric Medicine<br />
## Hospital Medicine<br />
## Hematology & Oncology<br />
## Infectious Diseases<br />
## Molecular Medicine ``basically a research division"<br />
## Nephrology<br />
## Preventive Medicine and Nutrition ``basically a research division, with basically just one clinician"<br />
## Pulmonary, Allergy, & Critical Care Medicine<br />
## Rheumatology<br />
# Neurological Surgery<br />
# Neurology<br />
# Obstetrics and Gynecology<br />
# Ophthalmology<br />
# Orthopedic Surgery<br />
# Otolaryngology/Head and Neck Surgery<br />
# Pediatrics<br />
# Psychiatry<br />
# Radiation Oncology<br />
# Radiology<br />
# Rehabilitation Medicine<br />
# Surgery<br />
# Urology<br />
<br />
==== Basic Health Sciences (182) ====<br />
# Anatomy and Cell Biology<br />
# [[Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics]]<br />
# Genetics and Development<br />
# Microbiology<br />
# Pathology<br />
# Pharmacology<br />
# Physiology and Cellular Biophysics<br />
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==== School of Public Health (165, Est. 1921) ====<br />
# Biostatistics<br />
# Environmental Health Sciences<br />
# Epidemiology<br />
# Health Policy and Management<br />
# Harriet and Robert Heilbrunn Department of Population and Family Health<br />
# Sociomedical Sciences<br />
==== School of Dental and Oral Surgery (165) ====<br />
the Faculty of Dental and Oral Surgery is simultaneously a department.<br />
==== School of Nursing (78, Est. 1892) ====<br />
the Faculty of Nursing is simultaneously a department.<br />
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[[Category:Departments|*]]</div>Bobsmith