<p>Nothing to dispute. Both Columbia & Barnard have revamped their web sites. A list of all of Columbia’s schools can be found here:
[Schools</a> | Columbia University in the City of New York](<a href=“http://www.columbia.edu/content/schools.html]Schools”>List of Centers and Institutes | Columbia University in the City of New York)</p>
<p>(This is navigable from the home page by clicking the subheading “schools” under “admissions”)</p>
<p>Good to see that, Calmom. Maybe now some of the ambiguity has been resolved.</p>
<p>Definitely. Columbia’s website no longer makes a distinction between schools that are officially “part” of Columbia and those (like Barnard, JTS, and UTS) that are merely “affiliated” with it. There are still differences in the treatment of Barnard and Columba students (say, swipe access), but they now appear to be arbitrary, rather than the inevitable result of some fundamental division in the administrative structure of two separate institutions, “Barnard” and “Columbia”. Such arbitrary differences are also found among CC, SEAS, and GS, not to mention the graduate schools!</p>
<p>At the risk of some being mad that I’m adding to this “ancient thread”, I just wanted to spread some Barnard pride (my dream school).
Have you all seen Meryl Streep’s commencement address to the Class of 2010? lucky ducks!
Would make anyone proud of Barnard…
Introduction for her and then speech starts at 50:30
[YouTube</a> - Barnard College Commencement 2010](<a href=“Barnard College Commencement 2010 - YouTube”>Barnard College Commencement 2010 - YouTube)</p>
<p>ALSO,
you can feel just how much Barnard is a part of Columbia just by the all-school commencement:
Barnard’s announcement is at 27:25</p>
<p>Please, no haters I just really love Barnard.</p>
<p>As a final thought on this thread, I would like to say that it is clear that the Barnard-Columbia relationship is really STRANGE and really UNCONVENTIONAL. It is simply incomparable, and very difficult to understand. Barnard is not one thing nor another; it’s not a completely official undergraduate college because it has a distinct identity, yet it is not a completely separate institution. It is a strange and wonderful mix of things and that’s just the way it is and is meant and designed to be-something that really doesn’t need to be argued about. Keep in mind that the whole reason that Barnard exists and isn’t a completely official college or merged by now is because it can stand on it’s own as the premier women’s college, benefiting from its relationship with Columbia U.</p>
<p>At first, this thread turned me off to Barnard because I thought that my experience there might be like these 54 pages of drama…but now I realize that it opened my eyes to the strange yet wonderful relationship that Barnard has to Columbia and I am up to the challenge of spending the next 5 years trying to explain my take on the relationship to all who ask me about it. I will be applying ED this fall. 
Peace, Love, and Barnard <3</p>
<p>whoops here is the link for the all school commencement:
[YouTube</a> - Columbia University Commencement 2010](<a href=“Columbia University Commencement 2010 - YouTube”>Columbia University Commencement 2010 - YouTube)</p>
<p>Barnard is part of Columbia University. It is not Columbia College(undergraduate college), but university means collection of college. The medicals schools are also part of Columbia college.</p>
<p>Plz don’t revive old threads. Plz note the date of the last post.</p>