It was founded in by a group of women led by young student activist Annie Nathan Meyer , who petitioned Columbia University 's trustees to create an affiliated college named after Columbia's then-recently deceased 10th president, Frederick A.
The college is one of the original Seven Sisters βseven liberal arts colleges in the Northeastern United States that were historically women's colleges. Barnard is currently an affilate Columbia undergraduate colleges with independent admission, curricula, and financials.
Students share classes, libraries, clubs, sororities , athletic fields, and dining halls with Columbia as well as sports teams. Students receive a diploma from Columbia University.
Barnard offers bachelor of arts degree programs in about 50 areas of study. Its 4-acre 1. It is directly across from Columbia's main campus. Barnard College alumnae include leaders in science, religion, politics, the Peace Corps , medicine, law, education, communications, theater, and business. From its founding in until the mids, Columbia College of Columbia University admitted only men for undergraduate study.
Classes took place in a rented brownstone at Madison Avenue, where a faculty of six offered instruction to 36 students. The college was named after Frederick Augustus Porter Barnard , a deaf American educator and mathematician who later served as Columbia's president for over twenty years. He advocated for coeducational settings and proposed in that Columbia admit women.
