Facts and Figures
July 1, 2019 – June 30, 2020
Students
Numbers
- 13,545 graduates since 1892
- 842 students currently enrolled in degree programs (MS, DNP, PhD)
- 147 students currently enrolled in non-degree program (Online Prerequisites for Entry to Nursing program)
Demographics (for enrolled degree- and non-degree students)
- Average age of enrolled students: 29
- Age range: 21–71
- 35 states represented
- 26 countries represented
- 13% of students identify as men
- 49% of students identify as Asian, Black, Hispanic, Native American, and/or Pacific Islander
Admissions
- Average undergraduate GPA: 3.4
- Top careers entering the Masters Direct Entry program: Education, Public Health, Business, Law, Social Work
- 92% of students receive financial aid
Faculty and Staff
Dean
Numbers
- 68 full-time faculty members
- 23 attending faculty members
- 46 part-time faculty members
- 450 clinical faculty members (preceptors)
Demographics*
- 31% of full-time and part-time faculty identify as Asian, Black, Hispanic, Native American, and/or Pacific Islander
- 12% of full-time and part-time faculty identify as men
- 61% of staff identify as Asian, Black, Hispanic, Native American, and/or Pacific Islander
*Current as of October 2020
Honors*
- 20 faculty who are Fellows of the American Academy of Nursing
- 17 faculty who are Fellows of the New York Academy of Medicine
- 3 faculty who are members of the National Academy of Medicine
- 2 faculty who are U.S. Fulbright Scholar alumni
- 4 faculty who are Sigma Theta Tau International Nurse Researcher Hall of Fame recipients
- 3 faculty who are Fellows of the American College of Medical Informatics
*Current as of October 2020
Academic
- Degrees offered: MS, DNP, PhD
- One non-degree prerequisites program
- Median class size
- Masters Direct Entry program: didactic classes, 40; clinical simulation classes, 8; 1:1 clinical placement integration
- Doctor of Nursing Practice program: 22
- Masters in Nurse Anesthesia program: 37
- Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) program: 7
- National licensure and certification exam pass rates
- Adult-Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner program (ANCC): 93%*
- Adult-Gerontology Primary Care Nurse Practitioner program (ANCC): 100%*
- Family Nurse Practitioner program (ANCC): 100%*
- Masters Direct Entry program NCLEX-RN (NCSBN): 94%**
- Midwifery program (AMCB): 72%*
- Masters in Nurse Anesthesia program (NCE): 94%*
- Pediatric Primary Care Nurse Practitioner program (PNCB): 100%*
- Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner program (ANCC): 100%*
- 95% job placement upon graduation
- Ranked #1 for 2021 in “Best Nursing Schools: Doctor of Nursing Practice” by U.S. News & World Report
- Alumni hold leadership positions in hospitals, academia, federal agencies, professional organizations and associations, and state and local government
*Class of 2019
**Class of 2020
Clinical
- One of only eight nursing schools in the nation associated with a major academic medical center (Columbia University Irving Medical Center)
- All clinical faculty maintain a faculty practice
- Faculty practice through the ColumbiaDoctors Primary Care Nurse Practitioner Group
- 172 clinical partnership practice sites throughout New York City
- 16 global clinical integration sites in 14 countries on 4 continents
- Home to a 14-room, two-story, 16,000-square-foot, state-of-the-art simulation center, the Helene Fuld Health Trust Simulation Center
- Among the first nursing schools in the country to use Pediatric HAL, the world’s most advanced pediatric patient simulator
Research
- #4 among U.S. schools of nursing in National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding for fiscal years 2019 - 2020*
- #1 among U.S. schools of nursing in Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) funding for fiscal years 2015 - 2019**
- $14.8 million in federal and non-federal funds awarded in fiscal year 2020***
- 56 active grants in fiscal year 2020***
* July 1, 2018 - June 30, 2020
** July 1, 2014 - June 30, 2019
*** July 1, 2019 - June 30, 2020
Nationwide Firsts
- First U.S. nursing school to establish a graduate university-based midwifery program (1955)
- First U.S. nursing school to award a master’s degree in a clinical nursing specialty (1956)
- One of the first U.S. nursing schools to establish a Doctor of Nursing Practice program (2004)
- Only U.S. nursing school designated a Collaborating Center for Advanced Practice Nursing by the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO)/World Health Organization (WHO)