Barnard College

The College founded in 1889, Barnard College, is a private women’s liberal arts college and it is one of the Seven Sisters. The college located in New York City, United States is affiliated with Columbia University. 

The college established with the motto ‘Following the Way of Reason’ has total number of 375 Academic Staff. The present president of the College is Debora Spar and the college has total endowment of $244.2 million as per 2013 report. The total number of undergraduate students is 2,360. From the history, we get to know that the college was established to educate women and provide them an undergraduate education in comparison to other Ivy League schools. Barnard College was named after an American educator and mathematician Frederick Augustus Porter Barnard, and he was also 10th president of Columbia (1864 to 1889).

Academics

The curriculum of Barnard College enables their students to develop their strength toward knowing about the incorporate but also about transcend of traditional academics declines. The college is all about dedicating itself to communicating to each and every student about self-renewing knowledgeable resourcefulness, the mark of a liberal arts education on them. 

Academic Department of the College are Asian and Middle Eastern Culture, Art History, Architecture, Anthropology, Africana Studies, Computer Science, Classics and Ancient Studies, Chemistry, Biology, French, Environmental Science, English, Economics, Dance, Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Theatre, Statistics, Spanish and Latin American Culture, Sociology, Slavic, Religion, Psychology, Political Science, Physics and Astronomy, Physical Education, Philosophy, Mathematics and History.

In addition, the academic programs offered by the college are Athena Leadership Studies, American Studies, Human Rights, German, First year Foundations, Film Studies, European Studies, Education, Comparative Literature, Consortium of Critical Interdisciplinary Studies, Writing Fellows, Urban Studies, Speaking Fellows, Science and Public Policy, Reacting to the Past, Neuroscience and Behavior, Music, Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Jewish Studies and Italian.

Centers for advance study are Center for Translation Studies, Barnard Center for Toddler Development, and Barnard Center for Research on Women and Athena Center for Leadership Studies. The college provides more than 57 major academic with additional minors. 

Admission

Barnard College is known as one of the most selective women’s institute in nation and it has lowest acceptance rate from overall 5 seven sisters. The college made a history in acceptance rate, where admission rate was only 19.5 percent of the 6,655 applicants. 

Ranking and Notable Alumni

Barnard was positioned at 32nd place for best liberal arts college by U.S. News and World report in the edition of 2014. 

Barnard College has produced many notable faces from different fields such as scientist, Musicians, Writers, Actors, Artists, Architects, Journalism, Businesswomen, Political, social and judicial figures and many others. Some of the names are Monica Green (medieval historian), Karla Jay (pioneer of lesbian and gay studies), Frankie Shaw (actress), Sasha Soreff (choreographer), Jana teller (Sculptor), Elizabeth Wiatt, AzitaRaji (investment banker), Fatima Bhutto (Social activist, writer), Roxanne Seeman (songwriter), Helen Deutsch (screenwriter), Grace Lee Boggs (author and political activist) among many others.