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Columbia College Chicago

Columbia College Chicago
600 South Michigan Avenue
Chicago, IL 60605-1996

Official telephone: (312) 369-1000
Fax number: (312) 369-8024
Website: https://www.colum.edu/
Screen last updated on: December 2024
ACADEMIC CALENDAR
Calendar system: semester system (two terms comprise academic year)
Month(s) in which new student orientation is held: Orientation for new students is held prior to start of fall term.
Number and length of summer sessions: A summer session is offered for credit.

ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE
Percent of full-time freshman students who returned for sophomore year: 64%
Student:Faculty ratio: 15:1
Total faculty: 463 men, 352 women
Full-time faculty: 132 men, 102 women
Part-time faculty: 331 men, 250 women
Graduation rate: 48% within six years

REQUIRED UNDERGRADUATE CURRICULUM
General education/core curriculum is required: yes

PROGRAMS OFFERED
Special programs offered:
student-designed majors, double majors, independent study, honors program, internships, distance learning
Study abroad opportunities:
Study-abroad program offered.
Army ROTC: offered off-campus ROTC branch unit at a cooperating host institution.
Navy ROTC: offered off-campus ROTC branch unit at a cooperating host institution.
Air Force ROTC: offered off-campus ROTC branch unit at a cooperating host institution.

LIST OF MAJORS
Bachelor's Degrees

  • Acoustics
  • Acting
  • Advertising
  • Animation, Interactive Technology, Video Graphics, and Special Effects
  • Area, Ethnic, Cultural, Gender, and Group Studies, Other
  • Art History, Criticism and Conservation
  • Arts, Entertainment, and Media Management, General
  • Business, Management, Marketing, and Related Support Services, Other
  • Business/Corporate Communications, General
  • Cinematography and Film/Video Production
  • Comedy Writing and Performance
  • Commercial and Advertising Art
  • Communication, General
  • Communication, Journalism, and Related Programs, Other
  • Communications Technologies/Technicians and Support Services, Other
  • Community/Environmental/Socially-Engaged Art
  • Computer and Information Sciences and Support Services, Other
  • Computer Programming/Programmer, General
  • Creative Writing
  • Dance, General
  • Deaf Studies
  • Design and Visual Communications, General
  • Digital Communication and Media/Multimedia
  • Directing and Theatrical Production
  • Documentary Production
  • Drama and Dramatics/Theatre Arts, General
  • Dramatic/Theatre Arts and Stagecraft, Other
  • Early Childhood Education and Teaching
  • Education, Other
  • English Language and Literature, General
  • English Language and Literature/Letters, Other
  • Ethnic, Cultural Minority, Gender, and Group Studies, Other
  • Fashion/Apparel Design
  • Film/Cinema/Media Studies
  • Fine and Studio Arts Management
  • Fine Arts and Art Studies, Other
  • Fine/Studio Arts, General
  • Foreign Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics, Other
  • Game and Interactive Media Design
  • General Studies
  • Graphic Design
  • Illustration
  • Industrial and Product Design
  • Interior Design
  • Intermedia/Multimedia
  • Journalism
  • Liberal Arts and Sciences, General Studies and Humanities, Other
  • Liberal Arts and Sciences/Liberal Studies
  • Marketing/Marketing Management, General
  • Movement Therapy and Movement Education
  • Multi-/Interdisciplinary Studies, General
  • Multi-/Interdisciplinary Studies, Other
  • Music Management
  • Music Performance, General
  • Music Technology
  • Music Theory and Composition
  • Music, General
  • Music, Other
  • Musical Theatre
  • Parks, Recreation, Leisure, Fitness, and Kinesiology, Other
  • Photography
  • Photojournalism
  • Physical Sciences, Other
  • Playwriting and Screenwriting
  • Public Relations/Image Management
  • Radio and Television
  • Recording Arts Technology/Technician
  • Retail Management
  • Sign Language Interpretation and Translation
  • Sport and Fitness Administration/Management
  • Technical Theatre/Theatre Design and Technology
  • Theatre/Theatre Arts Management
  • Visual and Performing Arts, Other
  • Web Page, Digital/Multimedia and Information Resources Design
Diplomas

  • Health Services/Allied Health/Health Sciences, General
  • Movement Therapy and Movement Education
Master's Degrees

  • Acting
  • Arts, Entertainment, and Media Management, General
  • Cinematography and Film/Video Production
  • Communication, General
  • Communication, Journalism, and Related Programs, Other
  • Creative Writing
  • English Language and Literature/Letters, Other
  • Film/Cinema/Media Studies
  • Fine and Studio Arts Management
  • Fine Arts and Art Studies, Other
  • Fine/Studio Arts, General
  • Health Services/Allied Health/Health Sciences, General
  • Interior Design
  • Intermedia/Multimedia
  • Journalism
  • Movement Therapy and Movement Education
  • Multi-/Interdisciplinary Studies, General
  • Multi-/Interdisciplinary Studies, Other
  • Music Management
  • Music, Other
  • Photography
  • Visual and Performing Arts, Other

ADVANCED CREDIT/PLACEMENT
Credit placement options:
  • credit for CEEB Advanced Placement (scores of 2 or higher)
  • credit for CLEP general
  • credit for CLEP subject
  • credit for DANTES
  • credit for international baccalaureate

CERTIFICATES OFFERED
  • False
 
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