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Columbia University
Columbia University, chartered in 1754 as King's College under royal charter from King George II, is the oldest institution of higher education in New York State and one of nine colonial colleges founded before the American Revolution, giving it a historical claim to prestige that predates the United States itself. The university's Core Curriculum, a set of required courses in literature, philosophy, art, and music that every undergraduate must complete regardless of major, has remained largely intact since its introduction in 1919, making it one of the longest-running mandatory liberal arts curricula at any major American research university. Columbia's Manhattan location, on a campus carved out of the Upper West Side, gives students direct access to the city's publishing, finance, media, and arts industries in a way few other elite universities can match, and its journalism school administers the Pulitzer Prizes, cementing its institutional role at the center of American media. The university has produced more Nobel laureates affiliated with it than almost any other American institution, and its combination of Ivy League academic weight, a dense urban campus, and unmatched access to New York City's professional industries makes it consistently ranked among the most selective universities in the country.
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New York University
New York University, founded in 1831, has grown from a relatively modest city university into one of the largest and most internationally recognized private research universities in the country, with a Washington Square campus that's fully integrated into Greenwich Village rather than set apart behind gates or a traditional quad. NYU's Tisch School of the Arts and Stern School of Business have each built reputations as among the best in their fields nationally, drawing on the university's Manhattan location to place students directly into the city's entertainment, finance, and media industries during their studies rather than only after graduation. The university's global network of degree-granting campuses in Abu Dhabi and Shanghai, alongside more than a dozen study-away sites around the world, gives NYU one of the most extensive international footprints of any American university, letting students complete substantial portions of their degree at fully NYU-operated campuses overseas. NYU's rapid rise in national rankings and application volume over the past several decades — from a solid regional university to one of the most heavily applied-to schools in the country — is frequently cited as one of the more dramatic institutional transformations in modern American higher education.
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