Departments

Columbia has 79 Departments of Instruction into which faculty are organised. Of the 79 departments, 78 are affiliated with various faculties and one, the Department of Physical Education, stands unaffiliated with any faculty.

Morningside non-professional faculties

Faculty of Arts and Sciences (844, Est. 1880)

The Faculty of Arts and Sciences is organized into 30 departments of instruction, typically split into 5 categories. Numbers refer to the number of full-time faculty reported by OPIR.

Humanities departments (327):

1. Art History and Archaeology Department
2. Classics Department
3. East Asian Languages and Cultures Department
4. English and Comparative Literature Department
5. French and Romance Philology Department
6. Germanic Languages Department
7. Italian Department
8. Middle East and Asian Languages and Cultures Department
9. Music Department
10. Philosophy Department
11. Religion Department
12. Slavic Languages Department
13. Spanish and Portuguese Department

Social sciences departments (218):

14. Anthropology Department
15. Economics Department
16. History Department
17. School of International and Public Affairs - also a faculty itself (see below)
18. Political Science Department
19. Sociology Department

Natural sciences departments (217):

20. Astronomy Department
21. Biological Sciences Department
22. Chemistry Department
23. Earth and Environmental Sciences Department
24. Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Biology Department
25. Mathematics Department
26. Physics Department
27. Psychology Department
28. Statistics Department

Education department:

29. School of Continuing Education (19) - also a faculty itself (see below)

Arts department:

30. School of the Arts (63) - also a faculty itself (see below)

Faculty of International and Public Affairs at the School of International and Public Affairs

• single department - also a department of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (already counted above)

Faculty of Education at the School of Continuing Education (19, Est. 2002)

• single department - also a department of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (already counted above)

Faculty of Arts at the School of the Arts (63, Est. 1948)

The School of the Arts has four internal "divisions", but these are not part of the university-wide designations.

• single department - also a department of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (already counted above)

Morningside professional faculties (468)

(note that 5 of the schools are also departments; Only Engineering, the largest of the Schools, is subdivided into 9 departments)

Faculty of Engineering at the Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science (152, Est. 1864)

1. Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics (29)
2. Biomedical Engineering (19)
3. Chemical Engineering (10)
4. Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics (13)
5. Computer Science (35)
6. Earth and Environmental Engineering (15) (formerly "Mining, Metallurgical, and Mineral Engineering (Henry Krumb School of Mines))
7. Electrical Engineering (20)
8. Industrial Engineering and Operations Research (16)
9. Mechanical Engineering (11)

Additional faculty unaccounted for in above departments:

• computer engineering (10)
• materials engineering (9)
• other (1)

Faculty of Business] at Columbia Business School (131, Est. 1916)

Business does not have "departments", it has "divisions". Almost half of the faculty are in the Finance and Economics division.

1. Accounting Division (12)
2. Management Division (22)
3. Finance and Economics Division* (60)
4. Marketing Division (16)
5. Decision, Risk and Operations Division (19)

• Note that there is also a department of economics

Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC) (2163)

Faculty of Clinical Health Sciences (1667)

Note that, for 2000-2006, Clinical Health Sciences accounted for, on average, %48 of total faculty.

1. Anesthesiology
2. Biomedical Informatics
3. Dermatology
4. Medicine, which claims "faculty of over 1300 physicians and scientists", further subdivided into:
   1. Allen Pavilion
   2. Cardiology
   3. Clinical Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics
   4. Digestive & Liver Diseases
   5. Endocrinology
   6. Behavioral Cardiovascular Health Hypertension Program
   7. General Medicine
   8. Geriatric Medicine
   9. Hospital Medicine
   10. Hematology & Oncology
   11. Infectious Diseases
   12. Molecular Medicine "basically a research division"
   13. Nephrology
   14. Preventive Medicine and Nutrition "basically a research division, with basically just one clinician"
   15. Pulmonary, Allergy, & Critical Care Medicine
   16. Rheumatology
5. Neurological Surgery
6. Neurology
7. Obstetrics and Gynecology
8. Ophthalmology
9. Orthopedic Surgery
10. Otolaryngology/Head and Neck Surgery
11. Pediatrics
12. Psychiatry
13. Radiation Oncology
14. Radiology
15. Rehabilitation Medicine
16. Surgery
17. Urology

Faculty of Basic Health Sciences (182)

1. Anatomy and Cell Biology
2. Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics
3. Genetics and Development
4. Microbiology
5. Pathology
6. Pharmacology
7. Physiology and Cellular Biophysics

Faculty of the School of Public Health (165, Est. 1921)

1. Biostatistics
2. Environmental Health Sciences
3. Epidemiology
4. Health Policy and Management
5. Harriet and Robert Heilbrunn Department of Population and Family Health
6. Sociomedical Sciences