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Columbia University is the oldest, wealthiest, and most famous of New York's institutions of higher education. It is situated primarily on a campus of 15 hectares (36 acres) in the Morningside Heights section of Manhattan. Founded as Kings College under a charter from George II of Britain in 1754, it has since grown into a multipurpose university with 25,000 students. Columbia University includes an Ivy-League undergraduate college, and distinguished professional schools of architecture, business, dentistry, journalism, law, medicine, public health, and social work.
The metropolitan region includes more than 100 other colleges and universities. Leading educational institutions include New York University, the nation's largest private university; Rockefeller University, a well-known research institution in the biological sciences; Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, a private, tuition-free college specializing in engineering and architecture; and Pratt Institute, a private college in Brooklyn with excellent programs in art and architecture. Important Catholic institutions include Fordham University, Manhattan College, St. John's University, and the College of Mount Saint Vincent. Yeshiva University is the nation's first major college expressly for the education of Orthodox Jews.
