Facts and Figures
July 1, 2020 – June 30, 2021
Students
Numbers
- 13,849 graduates since 1892
- 675 students currently enrolled in degree programs (MS, DNP, PhD)*
- 111 students currently enrolled in non-degree program (Online Prerequisites for Entry to Nursing program)*
*As of September 9, 2021
Demographics (for enrolled degree- and non-degree students)
- Average age of enrolled students: 29.9*
- Age range: 20–73*
- 33 states represented*
- 25 countries represented*
- 13% of students identify as men
- 50% of students identify as Asian, Black, Hispanic, Native American, and/or Pacific Islander*
*As of September 9, 2021
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
- 69 full-time faculty members
- 23 attending faculty members
- 147 part-time faculty members
- 761 clinical faculty members (preceptors)
Demographics
- 35% of full-time and part-time faculty identify as Asian, Black, Hispanic, Native American, and/or Pacific Islander
- 13% of full-time and part-time faculty identify as men
- 61% of staff identify as Asian, Black, Hispanic, Native American, and/or Pacific Islander
Honors
- 23 faculty who are Fellows of the American Academy of Nursing*
- 17 faculty who are Fellows of the New York Academy of Medicine
- 4 faculty who are members of the National Academy of Medicine
- 2 faculty who are U.S. Fulbright Scholar alumni
- 5 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
- 4 faculty who are Fellows of the American Heart Association
*Through 2021
Academic
- Degrees offered: MS, DNP, PhD
- Non-degree, CPA, and subspecialty programs
- 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): 92.3%*
- Masters in Nurse Anesthesia program (NCE): 90%*
- Pediatric Primary Care Nurse Practitioner program (PNCB): 100%*
- Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner program (ANCC): 100%*
- 95% job placement upon graduation
- Ranked #5 for 2022 for "Best Nursing Schools: Master's" and “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
- 188 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
* During the COVID-19 pandemic, Columbia Nursing students participated in virtual global projects with nursing partners in 10 countries.
Research
- #4 among U.S. schools of nursing in National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding for fiscal year 2020*
- $16 million in federal and non-federal funds awarded in fiscal year 2021**
- 53 active grants in fiscal year 2020*
* July 1, 2019 - June 30, 2020
** July 1, 2020 - June 30, 2021
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)