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Akash Gaur

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Columbia is known for its academic rigor & providing a world class learning environment that also focuses on the overall development of students & not just the academic part.

The campus offers a number of extra-curricular facilities including a world class athletics program, 24x7 dining facilities, state-of-the-art arts facilities including dance halls & museums.

It's world class faculty is also very helpful & ever present to impart their knowledge.

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Columbia is considered among the most prestigious institutions in the United States.

Given below are some fun-facts about the university:

·      It was the first US institution to be granted an M.D. degree

·      The famous Pulitzer Prize awarded for outstanding work in journalism, literature & music is administered annually by the university

·      The university has the second most number of Nobel Prize winners (103), only behind Harvard (161)

·      The institute didn't admit women until the year 1983

·      Its athletic

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The institute was founded in 1754 under the name “King's College” by George II, on the lands of the trinity church in Manhattan. It shifted its base to 49th street & Madison Avenue in 1857 before moving to Morningside Heights in 1897.

The institute got renamed as Columbia University in 1912.

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Ruth Benedict, was the first female woman professor at Columbia University. She was an assistant professor in anthropology who then get promoted in 1931 to the role of senior professor, creating history as the first tenured faculty member at the institution.

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Columbia is home to around 7,200 faculty members in teaching & research as part of its university faculty network.

Of these, 2,741 are full-time members, giving it a full-time faculty rate of around 38%. The rest of the faculty are employed part-time.

The university faculty impart their knowledge across several prominent sectors including: Business, Engineering, Mathematics, Science, Physical Education & Health among others.

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As per data curated from the official university housing portal of GMU, the annual room cost is around USD 26,597. This fee includes the room fee of around USD 14,010 as well as Support Fees of around USD 12,587

The fee covers costs such as: utilities, electricity, Wi-fi & the maintenance costs. 

Alternatively, students can also look for off-campus accommodation by referring GMU's off-campus housing resource that lists a number of properties available to be rented near the university campus.

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The University of Central Missouri is ranked among the best for MBA course. It has a 96% job placement rate. To take admission to this course, the applicants are required to have the following:

  • An UG degree with a GPA of 3.0
  • GMAT / GRE scores are not required
  • An English language proficiency score is required

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Himanshi Shekhar

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University of Central Missouri is fully-accredited by the Higher Learning Commission (HLC). Some of the rankings that makes this university a worth it university are Wall Street Journal named this university as one of America's Best Colleges in 2025. Furthermore, the Princeton Review named UCM a 2026 Best College in the Midwestern region. This university offers 150+ programs and its popular courses among international students are MSc in CS and MBA.

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Gunjan Thapa

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The University of Central Missouri is consistently ranked as the top-university amongst the ranking publishers. It ranks at #59 position in the Regional Universities Midwest rankings in 2026. It ranks at #57 for the Best Value school rankings in 2026.

The university is one of the affordable universities in the U.S. and it offers lower-than-average-tuition. The university offers a wide variety of courses to choose from. There are 150+ majors available.

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Sayani Chatterjee

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University of Washington, USA is a better option than Amity University, India doing for MBA. Here are the few reasons:

  1.  University of Washington, USA  is ranked as a top university in QS World rankings while Amity University is just a private University which offers various courses in India.
  2. There is much lot of exposure and a good students crowd at University of Washington, USA. while amity is a 3 tier university in India
  3. University has an excellence faculty which consists of the finest professors across the globe.

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