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<p>Columbia Teacher’s College is a graduate program at Columbia University. Their campus is also on 116th, right behind Pupin. And actually, it’s quite a large complex with a couple of libraries.</p>
<p>In practical terms, undergraduates will essentially never interact with Teacher’s college students. You might mingle with a few business/law students here and there because their buildings are IN the morningside heights main campus.</p>
<p>Actually it’s on Broadway and 120th, not 116th.</p>
<p>absolutely non-existent…as an undergraduate you will have nothing to do with that school. And technically I don’t think its really a graduate school of columbia, its just affiliated. Teachers College is more associated with Fordham, or so I thought.</p>
<p>And technically I don’t think its really a graduate school of columbia, its just affiliated. Teachers College is more associated with Fordham, or so I thought.</p>
<p>My dad graduated from Teacher’s College–it’s definitely a graduate school of Columbia University. No affiliation with Fordham.</p>
<p>You’re right, though, that there is typically no undergrad interaction with TC.</p>
<p>as with anything at columbia, if you want to interact with tc students, it’s perfectly possible (i’m dating one myself). it is a graduate school, it’s affiliated with columbia…definitely not affiliated with fordham. at all.</p>
<p>also i forgot to mention that it is possible to take classes there, although most people don’t. and i’m fairly certain you have to pay per credit per course at tc on top of your regular tuition at columbia.</p>
<p>truazn, but I heard teachers college isn’t even a graduate school of Columbia. Like Barnard, it is an affiliated and seperate institution.</p>
<p>I think it was historically a part of Columbia, but parted ways some 150 years ago or something. Now it maintains close affiliation with Columbia.</p>
<p>Were CU and TC on Facebook, they’d say their relationship, like Barnard’s falls under “it’s complicated”</p>
<p>I happened to find this old thread and noticed some common misconceptions about TC that, as a current student, I’d like to clear up. </p>
<p>Teachers College is indeed affiliated with Columbia University. “Affiliated,” however, carries a connotation of uncertainty. There is nothing murky about it. Simply put, TC is an official Columbia college, like the colleges of law, medicine, or journalism. In fact, TC is Columbia’s Graduate School of Education. What that means is that if your goal is to study education as a graduate student at Columbia, you would apply to TC. </p>
<p>There are no undergraduate students at TC, only graduate students, which is why undergrads and grads have not only little interaction, but zero interaction. It is not possible for an undergraduate to take classes at TC because you must already possess at least a bachelor’s degree to be admitted to TC. </p>
<p>As to whether a TC student is truly a Columbia student, the degree-granting institution is Columbia University. So if you graduate from Teachers College with a masters or doctoral degree, your dipoma will say Columbia University on it, specifically, Columbia University Graduate School of Arts & Sciences. </p>
<p>There might be some confusion because Teachers College was founded as a separate institution in 1887 but was integrated into Columbia as its graduate school of education in 1898. So I’m not sure why the ambiguity persists, but hopefully this helps put the facts in order.</p>
<p>I’m guessing that, in practice, Columbia U. undergrads don’t take classes in the teacher’s college… but they can (from the Bulletin):</p>
<p>"Teachers College</p>
<p>Normally, students are not allowed to enroll in courses offered through Teachers College. Exceptions to this policy may be granted under the following circumstances by submitting a petition to the Dean of Academic Affairs of Columbia College, 208 Hamilton Hall:</p>
<pre><code>Courses that are not offered at Columbia but are deemed essential to a student’s undergraduate program of study.
Instrumental music instruction course (e.g., piano). In this instance, students are charged per credit for the course over and above their Columbia tuition."
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<p>Not like the law school, which really doesn’t want CC undergrads in their courses.</p>