Columbia's Campus??

[CalBeE]

Hey I'm not familiar with Manhattan, but I know that Columbia's Medical Center and Med School are on a different area from the Undergrad campus. I'm just wondering where Columbia's law school, business school, education school, and other grad schools are located in relations to the med school campus?

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[marimed]

Although I don't go to any Columbia associated schools, I know that Columbia Undergrad and grad/professional schools are located around 116th street and Broadway. You can take the 1 & 9 from the subway station near the Presb hospital and you should get there relatively fast. Also I believe (but am not 100% sure so I hope someone else can verify this) they have a shuttle for med students to take them to the undergrad campus free of charge. I know a couple of P & S students who sometimes prefer to study at the undergrad library and take the shuttle. Hope this information helps and sorry if any of it is incorrect.

 

[missbonnie]

Hi-

Yes there is a shuttle that takes u free of charge between the campuses - but ends around midnight. It's not bad at all. The subway is also very convenient, takes u directly from one campus to another and is 24 hrs. The ugrad campus is really nice - all the ugrad schools, law school, graduate arts & sciences, teacher's college, business, etc are there. Plus it's much more "college" town feel - lots of nice restaurants, etc.

Alot of medical students seem to study there - much nicer library than the medical one.

If you are seriously considering P & S and you're not familar with Columbia's other campuses, definately go there and wander around.

bonnie

 

[MedAppGurl]

The med school is at 168th street and Broadway. Its right of the express A train, so it isn't as far removed as it sounds. And the other columbia affiliated schools are at 116th (as stated above). If you are coming to visit, I recommend checking out the ugrad campus just because it is so pretty.

 

[Rendar5]

If you go to Columbia, I'm going to give you a nice secret that most people don't know. If you want a great library as a study place, go to Starr Library. It's in Kent, which is the East Asian studies building. The library is not crowded, great lighting, quiet, and is just great for studying.

It's at the downtown campus in Morningside Heights (bonnie gave good advice since I know she went to Barnard). It's a great place to hang out with tons of great restaurants that are cheaply priced.

Edit: there's a shuttle bus between the two campuses, but you need some sort of Columbia affiliation to use it. 15-20 minute ride depending on time of day. Subway is 5-10 minutes between campuses. If you do any work at St. Luke's Hospital, that's right by the downtown campus. And while you're down there, check out St. John the Divine. Fantastic (largest) Gothic cathedral that's still being built.

 

[tbo]

CalBee,

I'm currently doing a Master's in P&S at the Health Sciences campus (now called the "Medical Center"). As mentioned it's further uptown. The campus houses the med students, the School of Nursing, Mailman Public Health school, School of Dentistry, the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (within P&S), the new Genome center (Computational Biology, Biomedical/Chemical Engineering), and they're building some new buildings (called the Audubon buildings) with state of the art labs.

All other schools (law, education, essentially everything else) is <i>currently</i> located on the Morningside Campus on 116th. However, President Bollinger is planning a new 3rd campus in between the two, slated in "Manhattanville", which is, to my knowledge, near 145th-ish area. Columbia already owns quite a bit of real estate in that area. They still haven't decided who's going to reside there, but they are earmarking it as a more integrative center. The Genome center, Biomedical Engineering, Biomedical Informatics all have ties in both medicine/hospital organization, as well as other disciplines.

Interesting times at Columbia now, and certainly lots of support from the big people there to improve the facilities (they're already pretty nice if you ask me).

 

[TRUE]

I'm an undergrad at Columbia right now. Tbo's description is pretty accurate. As a med student you'll be spending 95% of your time uptown at healthsciences. The dorm (bard hall) is right next to the "New York State Psychiatric Institute" and that's about a LONG block from the subway which is on broadyway (1/9 and A/E are at this stop).

As for the manhattanville campus: right now it's not going anywhere. They don't have public support yet for obvious reasons and there isn't too much support on campus yet either. It's going to take them a while to get it all going and I'm not 100% sure it will ever make it. President Bollinger is pretty big on expansion, but it'll be tough for him to get this through. Regardless, as a med. student you'll probably have little to do with this new campus and I HIGHLY doubt you'd ever get to do anything at the new campus during your 4 years at medical school here. It'll probably take them that long to even get approval and start the whole planning process.

 

[tbo]

Facted: I completely agree with your assessment of Manhattanville. There's still much to be addressed, and no one looking to go to P&S needs to worry about any of them. I still think it's noteworthy that there's a commitment from the President to expand and improve. Many other campuses cannot make such a claim. For what it's worth...

 

[Rendar5]

PrezBo's great 🙂 Do they still call him that? Or was it just my year?

 

[TRUE]

Originally posted by Rendar5
PrezBo's great 🙂 Do they still call him that? Or was it just my year?

Well once in a while you'll hear someone call him that but that came mostly from the varsity show. The lead character was a student acting like Bollinger and he called himself PresBo. It was pretty funny but I don't think it's stuck all that much...haha.

 

[CalBeE]

I also have another question: I just recently found out that the New York-Presbytarian Hospital system comprise of two main hospitals (Columbia and Cornell, on 168th street and 68 street respectively I think).

Do Columbia and Weill's med students get to do rotations at each other's part of the hospital system? Or they're mostly limited to their own part of the hospital system?

 

[Catalyst]

Originally posted by CalBeE
I also have another question: I just recently found out that the New York-Presbytarian Hospital system comprise of two main hospitals (Columbia and Cornell, on 168th street and 68 street respectively I think).

Do Columbia and Weill's med students get to do rotations at each other's part of the hospital system? Or they're mostly limited to their own part of the hospital system?

From what I've heard when visiting both Columbia and Cornell, it seems that Columbia and Weill med students hardly interact at all, solely rotating at their respective hospitals. Of course, I'm sure if you really wanted to rotate at different parts of the hospital system, you wouldn't have much trouble...

 

[CalBeE]

Originally posted by SachinG
From what I've heard when visiting both Columbia and Cornell, it seems that Columbia and Weill med students hardly interact at all, solely rotating at their respective hospitals. Of course, I'm sure if you really wanted to rotate at different parts of the hospital system, you wouldn't have much trouble...

THanks Sachin! I don't know if you remember this, but I met you at Northwestern's interview! I think I was the only international applicant that day.

 

[Catalyst]

Originally posted by CalBeE
THanks Sachin! I don't know if you remember this, but I met you at Northwestern's interview! I think I was the only international applicant that day.

Yeah I totally remember you! (especially the reaction everyone had upon hearing that you were an Indian-born Australian) 🙂 How have things been going? Northwestern was a pretty badass school

 

[CalBeE]

Originally posted by SachinG
Yeah I totally remember you! (especially the reaction everyone had upon hearing that you were an Indian-born Australian) 🙂 How have things been going? Northwestern was a pretty badass school

I'm done with all my interviews, and now I'm just waiting for responses. HOpefully I'll figure out where I'm going sometime in March. 😉

 

[Catalyst]

Originally posted by CalBeE
I'm done with all my interviews, and now I'm just waiting for responses. HOpefully I'll figure out where I'm going sometime in March. 😉

Yeah, I know how that is. I'm done with interviews also and am waiting to hear responses from six schools. I'd like to be finished with this whole process around mid-March. Everyday is nervewracking, I just want this all to end