<p>Many of NYU’s graduate programs are ranked higher than Columbia’s graduate programs. Law, Economics, Mathematics, Philosophy, are all just a few on the top of my mind. Although it would be outrageous for me to say that NYU is a flat out better school than Columbia, which is untrue. Columbia has a vastly better peer assessment partly because it does have (good)sports teams and a campus so people don’t feel alienated in the largest City in America. Columbia’s endowment is also extremely large compared to that of NYU, and Columbia also has that “ivy league” brand name that is somehow important, although, I still don’t understand. ( It’s a @$%# sports league!?) </p>
<p>Although, right now, there is a gap between Columbia and NYU, NYU is closing the gap faster than any other college competing for higher rankings. More and more people want to experience the urban life, many people are fascinated by the big apple( living in Brooklyn, I never heard anyone say big apple?), and a lot of people want a more popular, pre-professional form of education that you cannot get at Columbia because of its “core.” Also NYU’s endowment is increasing substantially, and if you go to the website, they are putting a LOT of money into Greenwich Village, and if you look at the website, NYU is going to have a pseudo campus haha. In 10 or 15 years times NYU will be eye to eye with Columbia. ( I said it first! :P)</p>