Columbia College Chicago, an urban institution committed to open access,
opportunity and excellence in higher education, provides innovative degree
programs in the visual, performing, media and communication arts to more
than 10,000 undergraduate and graduate students.
Founded in 1890 as a communications school for women, Columbia College
Chicago was revisioned in 1963 as a liberal arts college with a “hands-on
minds-on” approach to arts and media education and a progressive social
agenda.
Through the diversity of its students and graduates, the school brings a
rich vision and multiplicity of voices to American culture.