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 ==History==
-Unlike at many schools, graduate studies originally didn't take place under the auspices of a single [[Faculty of Arts and Sciences]] or graduate school. Instead Columbia had three graduate [[Faculty|faculties]] that wouldn't be combined to form GSAS until [[1979]]- Political Science (founded in [[1880]]<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=h109AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA140#v=onepage&q&f=false Resolutions Adopted by the Trustees 1880-1885, School of Political Science, pgs. 140-141]</ref>), Philosophy ([[1890]]), and Pure Science ([[1892]]). The establishment of the School of Political Science in 1880 took the combined efforts of [[F. A. P. Barnard|President Barnard]], [[trustee]] [[Samuel Ruggles]], and Professor of Political Science [[John W. Burgess]], who was looking for a way out of having to teach undergraduates. Ruggles telegraphed Barnard after the trustees voted to establish the new school "Thank God! The University is born."
+Unlike at many schools, graduate studies originally didn't take place under the auspices of a single [[Faculty of Arts and Sciences]] or graduate school. Instead Columbia had three graduate [[faculties]] that wouldn't be combined to form GSAS until [[1979]]- Political Science (founded in [[1880]]<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=h109AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA140#v=onepage&q&f=false Resolutions Adopted by the Trustees 1880-1885, School of Political Science, pgs. 140-141]</ref>), Philosophy ([[1890]]), and Pure Science ([[1892]]). The establishment of the School of Political Science in 1880 took the combined efforts of [[F. A. P. Barnard|President Barnard]], [[trustee]] [[Samuel Ruggles]], and Professor of Political Science [[John W. Burgess]], who was looking for a way out of having to teach undergraduates. Ruggles telegraphed Barnard after the trustees voted to establish the new school "Thank God! The University is born."
 Columbia conferred its first [[PhD]] in [[1882]] to [[Charles Wells Marsh]] for his study "Geology of Water Supplies and Water Analysis". The graduate program was open to women far before any other division of the school. In [[1886]], [[Winifred H. Edgerton]] earned a PhD for her dissertation "Multiple Integers". In [[1912]], [[George Edmund Haynes]] was the first African-American to receive a Columbia PhD. His disseratation was titled "The Negro at Work in New York City".

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 Divisions into Faculties, and subdivisions into divisions, and subsubdivisions into departments, can be found at the [[Departments]] page.
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 ==History==
-Unlike at many schools, graduate studies originally didn't take place under the auspices of a single [[Faculty of Arts and Sciences]] or graduate school. Instead Columbia had three graduate schools that wouldn't be formally combined into GSAS until [[1979]]- Political Science (founded in [[1880]]), Philosophy ([[1890]]), and Pure Science ([[1892]]). The establishment of the School of Political Science in 1880 took the combined efforts of [[F. A. P. Barnard|President Barnard]], [[trustee]] [[Samuel Ruggles]], and Professor of Political Science [[John W. Burgess]], who was looking for a way out of having to teach undergraduates. Ruggles telegraphed Barnard after the trustees voted to establish the new school "Thank God! The University is born."
+Unlike at many schools, graduate studies originally didn't take place under the auspices of a single [[Faculty of Arts and Sciences]] or graduate school. Instead Columbia had three graduate [[Faculty|faculties]] that wouldn't be combined to form GSAS until [[1979]]- Political Science (founded in [[1880]]<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=h109AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA140#v=onepage&q&f=false Resolutions Adopted by the Trustees 1880-1885, School of Political Science, pgs. 140-141]</ref>), Philosophy ([[1890]]), and Pure Science ([[1892]]). The establishment of the School of Political Science in 1880 took the combined efforts of [[F. A. P. Barnard|President Barnard]], [[trustee]] [[Samuel Ruggles]], and Professor of Political Science [[John W. Burgess]], who was looking for a way out of having to teach undergraduates. Ruggles telegraphed Barnard after the trustees voted to establish the new school "Thank God! The University is born."
 Columbia conferred its first [[PhD]] in [[1882]] to [[Charles Wells Marsh]] for his study "Geology of Water Supplies and Water Analysis". The graduate program was open to women far before any other division of the school. In [[1886]], [[Winifred H. Edgerton]] earned a PhD for her dissertation "Multiple Integers". In [[1912]], [[George Edmund Haynes]] was the first African-American to receive a Columbia PhD. His disseratation was titled "The Negro at Work in New York City".

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 ==History==
-Unlike at many schools, graduate studies originally didn't take place under the auspices of a single [[Faculty of Arts and Sciences]] or graduate school. Instead Columbia had three graduate [[Faculty|faculties]] that wouldn't be combined to form GSAS until [[1979]]- Political Science (founded in [[1880]]), Philosophy ([[1890]]), and Pure Science ([[1892]]). The establishment of the School of Political Science in 1880 took the combined efforts of [[F. A. P. Barnard|President Barnard]], [[trustee]] [[Samuel Ruggles]], and Professor of Political Science [[John W. Burgess]], who was looking for a way out of having to teach undergraduates. Ruggles telegraphed Barnard after the trustees voted to establish the new school "Thank God! The University is born."
+Unlike at many schools, graduate studies originally didn't take place under the auspices of a single [[Faculty of Arts and Sciences]] or graduate school. Instead Columbia had three graduate schools that wouldn't be formally combined into GSAS until [[1979]]- Political Science (founded in [[1880]]), Philosophy ([[1890]]), and Pure Science ([[1892]]). The establishment of the School of Political Science in 1880 took the combined efforts of [[F. A. P. Barnard|President Barnard]], [[trustee]] [[Samuel Ruggles]], and Professor of Political Science [[John W. Burgess]], who was looking for a way out of having to teach undergraduates. Ruggles telegraphed Barnard after the trustees voted to establish the new school "Thank God! The University is born."
 Columbia conferred its first [[PhD]] in [[1882]] to [[Charles Wells Marsh]] for his study "Geology of Water Supplies and Water Analysis". The graduate program was open to women far before any other division of the school. In [[1886]], [[Winifred H. Edgerton]] earned a PhD for her dissertation "Multiple Integers". In [[1912]], [[George Edmund Haynes]] was the first African-American to receive a Columbia PhD. His disseratation was titled "The Negro at Work in New York City".

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 ==History==
-Unlike at many schools, graduate studies originally didnt take place under the auspice of a single [[Faculty of Arts and Sciences]] or graduate school. Instead Columbia had three graduate [[Faculty|faculties]] that wouldn't be combined to form GSAS until [[1979]]- [[Faculty of Political Science|Political Science]] ([[1880]]), [[Faculty of Philosophy|Philosophy]] ([[1890]]), and [[Faculty of Pure Science|Pure Science]] ([[1892]]). The establishment of the Faculty of Political Science in 1880 took the combined efforts of [[F. A. P. Barnard|President Barnard]], [[trustee]] [[Samuel Ruggles]], and Professor of Political Science [[John W. Burgess]], who was looking for a way out of having to teach undergraduates. Ruggles telegraphed Barnard after the trustees voted to establish the new faculty "Thank God! The University is born."
+Unlike at many schools, graduate studies originally didn't take place under the auspices of a single [[Faculty of Arts and Sciences]] or graduate school. Instead Columbia had three graduate [[Faculty|faculties]] that wouldn't be combined to form GSAS until [[1979]]- Political Science (founded in [[1880]]), Philosophy ([[1890]]), and Pure Science ([[1892]]). The establishment of the School of Political Science in 1880 took the combined efforts of [[F. A. P. Barnard|President Barnard]], [[trustee]] [[Samuel Ruggles]], and Professor of Political Science [[John W. Burgess]], who was looking for a way out of having to teach undergraduates. Ruggles telegraphed Barnard after the trustees voted to establish the new school "Thank God! The University is born."
 Columbia conferred its first [[PhD]] in [[1882]] to [[Charles Wells Marsh]] for his study "Geology of Water Supplies and Water Analysis". The graduate program was open to women far before any other division of the school. In [[1886]], [[Winifred H. Edgerton]] earned a PhD for her dissertation "Multiple Integers". In [[1912]], [[George Edmund Haynes]] was the first African-American to receive a Columbia PhD. His disseratation was titled "The Negro at Work in New York City".

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 |Image=GSASsymbol.jpg
 |Established=[[1880]]
-|Dean=[[Henry Pinkham]]
+|Dean=[[Carlos J. Alonso]]
 |Degrees=[[MA]], [[PhD]]
 |Enrollment= 4,157 students (2005)

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 }}
-The '''Graduate School of Arts and Sciences''' ('''GSAS''') is Columbia's graduate school.
+The '''Graduate School of Arts and Sciences''' ('''GSAS''') is Columbia's graduate school for subjects that don't fall under the auspices of professional schools, like law and medicine. GSAS students typically train to become academics or to work in other knowledge professions.
 ==History==

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