Columbia College Chicago

COLUMBIA COLLEGE CHICAGO is an undergraduate and graduate institution whose principal commitment is to provide a comprehensive educational opportunity in the arts, media, and communications within a context of enlightened liberal education. Columbia’ intent is to educate students who will communicate creatively and shape the public’s perceptions of issues and events, and who will author the culture of their times. Columbia is an urban institution whose students reflect the economic, racial, cultural and educational diversity of contemporary America. Columbia conducts education in close relationship to a vital urban reality and serves important civic purpose by active engagement in the life and culture of t he city of Chicago.