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Revision as of 08:09, 21 October 2009
Columbia Global Centers are research facilities established by the university in international locations around the globe. The first of these centers opened in March 2009 in Amman, Jordan and Beijing, China. The Amman center opened with the assistance of Jordan's Queen Rania; both were funded by grants from the US governments and the governments of host countries.
Unlike traditional satellite campuses, the centers are strictly research offices with skeleton staffs, designed to make Columbia's approach to the globalization of education stand out - and to cost relatively little, compared to full-scale teaching operations like those run by NYU.
Columbia envisions opening "four to six" additional such centers in the coming years; the next are scheduled to open in India and in Paris. The Paris center will likely work in conjunction with the preexisting Columbia facility at Reid Hall.
