Columbia University was founded by Great Britain's resident George II in the year 1754. This university is well-known for higher education in the United States. It is also among those 9 colleges which were founded before Independence. The university was initially established as King's College, but in the year 1784, it was renamed to Columbia University. The university comprises of a maximum of 27,942 students and comprises of 8000 apartments. To be precise, the university accommodates about 8,410 undergraduate students and 19,532 post-graduate students. Columbia University has maintained its relationship with Caltech, Yale, and MIT in order to provide the students with great opportunities, exposure, and growth. The university has successful facilitate a number of researchers who went on to make some remarkable research such as Nuclear Pile, Nuclear Magnetic Resonance and Brain-computer Interface. Tectonic plates' movement and continental drift were also first observed here. The university offers a number of diverse yet reputed programs range in the field such as Philosophy, History, Anthropology, Business, Architecture, and American Studies. The university also offers creative programs which are Visual Arts, Dance, Music, Drama and Theatre Arts and Film and Media Studies. Columbia University has a 5.1% acceptance rate which makes it quite a selective university.