The Fu Foundation School of Engineering & Applied Science
Columbia University in the City of New York
The Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Sciences would like to offer you the opportunity to become a leader in your profession, learning from those shaping the world of tomorrow. We offer academic programs steeped in history and committed to innovation. In addition, your learning takes place on a campus in the heart of one of the world's most exciting and cosmopolitan cities.
Graduate school should be intellectually exhilarating and challenging. If you are fortunate, you will find a field that not only fascinates you, but also elicits a passionate commitment. Once you have identified those programs that you find most exciting, we encourage you to speak directly with the faculty of the programs that interest you for a more comprehensive understanding of what advanced study in those particular fields involves. Graduate school is hard work and will call upon resources you may not realize you have. But it is also the door to many paths, the opportunity to exercise your creativity and to acquire self-confidence and a strong sense of what you are about. In the continuing analysis, graduate school provides the first synthesis, the assembly of the mind and the habits that will carry you forward under your own steam. Columbia has much to offer you, and we hope you will seek us out.
Once at Columbia, students are instantly aware that they may be in the Ivy League but they're not in an Ivory Tower. Outside the open gates of College Walk stretches a city of mind-boggling wealth and heart-breaking poverty, frustrating challenges and outlandish rewards, hustle, bustle, hurly, burly, sturm, drang, shadow, substance-the eternally intoxicating, endearingly alluring, most exasperating and exhilarating of all college towns-the incomparable City of New York. Much too complicated and daunting to take on as a whole, New York is in fact a collection of neighborhoods, each with its own charms and flavor. The Columbia student can hop in a taxi, bus, train or their own two feet, and in no time can be scarfing down schnitzel in Yorkville or duck webs in Chinatown, can be considering the mummies at the Met or Mondrian at MOMA, can be looking punk in TriBeCa or retro in Soho, can be enjoying a retrospective on Betty Boop or Bullwinkle on the East Side or buying bagels at a bodega on the West, can be cheering on the Mets, the Jets, or the Nets in due season, can be appreciating the natural settings of the Cloisters or the Palisades, or can be simply strolling the relatively quiet streets of Morningside Heights on his or her way back from the grocery or Grant's Tomb. We never forget that "in the City of New York" is not just our address, but our last name.
The University and the City are each in debt to the other's greatness and our students benefit from both and contribute to an even more brilliant future. Columbia has nurtured Enrico Fermi and I.I. Rabi, Franz Boas and John Dewey, Margaret Mead and Margaret Bourke-White, Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac, Art Garfunkel and Pat Boone, Brian de Palma and Jim Jarmusch, Donna Shalala and Sha-Na-Na, Isaac Asimov and Anne Tyler, Meyer Schapiro and Jacques Barzun, George Segal and Georgia O'Keeffe, Lionel Trilling and Mark Van Doren, Madeleine Albright and Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Brent Scowcroft, Bessie Delaney and Sadie Delaney and Brian Dennehy and Paul Auster and Herman Wouk and Telly Savalas and Rodgers and Hart and Hammerstein and Teddy Roosevelt and Lou Gehrig, and 60 Nobel Laureates.
Graduate school should be intellectually exhilarating and challenging. If you are fortunate, you will find a field that not only fascinates you, but also elicits a passionate commitment. Once you have identified those programs that you find most exciting, we encourage you to speak directly with the faculty of the programs that interest you for a more comprehensive understanding of what advanced study in those particular fields involves. Graduate school is hard work and will call upon resources you may not realize you have. But it is also the door to many paths, the opportunity to exercise your creativity and to acquire self-confidence and a strong sense of what you are about. In the continuing analysis, graduate school provides the first synthesis, the assembly of the mind and the habits that will carry you forward under your own steam. Columbia has much to offer you, and we hope you will seek us out.
Once at Columbia, students are instantly aware that they may be in the Ivy League but they're not in an Ivory Tower. Outside the open gates of College Walk stretches a city of mind-boggling wealth and heart-breaking poverty, frustrating challenges and outlandish rewards, hustle, bustle, hurly, burly, sturm, drang, shadow, substance-the eternally intoxicating, endearingly alluring, most exasperating and exhilarating of all college towns-the incomparable City of New York. Much too complicated and daunting to take on as a whole, New York is in fact a collection of neighborhoods, each with its own charms and flavor. The Columbia student can hop in a taxi, bus, train or their own two feet, and in no time can be scarfing down schnitzel in Yorkville or duck webs in Chinatown, can be considering the mummies at the Met or Mondrian at MOMA, can be looking punk in TriBeCa or retro in Soho, can be enjoying a retrospective on Betty Boop or Bullwinkle on the East Side or buying bagels at a bodega on the West, can be cheering on the Mets, the Jets, or the Nets in due season, can be appreciating the natural settings of the Cloisters or the Palisades, or can be simply strolling the relatively quiet streets of Morningside Heights on his or her way back from the grocery or Grant's Tomb. We never forget that "in the City of New York" is not just our address, but our last name.
The University and the City are each in debt to the other's greatness and our students benefit from both and contribute to an even more brilliant future. Columbia has nurtured Enrico Fermi and I.I. Rabi, Franz Boas and John Dewey, Margaret Mead and Margaret Bourke-White, Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac, Art Garfunkel and Pat Boone, Brian de Palma and Jim Jarmusch, Donna Shalala and Sha-Na-Na, Isaac Asimov and Anne Tyler, Meyer Schapiro and Jacques Barzun, George Segal and Georgia O'Keeffe, Lionel Trilling and Mark Van Doren, Madeleine Albright and Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Brent Scowcroft, Bessie Delaney and Sadie Delaney and Brian Dennehy and Paul Auster and Herman Wouk and Telly Savalas and Rodgers and Hart and Hammerstein and Teddy Roosevelt and Lou Gehrig, and 60 Nobel Laureates.