General Studies vs. Columbia College

Snivellus
Wed, 03 Jun 2015 20:11:08 +0000

Columbia University is an Ivy League university. Within the university, there are several undergraduate colleges, as well as graduate school programs. General Studies is another undergraduate school at Columbia, and therefore is part of the Ivy League.

GS is for people who are non-traditional or as part of dual degree program with JTS (Jewish Theological Seminary). I don’t even know if they would let people who just graduated from high school apply to GS. Why would you want to? Not that it is academically inferior (it’s not) - just the dynamics are different. For example, you would be with older people, maybe they are more off-campus, you don’t take the Core, etc.