Learn about programs and services available to alumni from the various schools and departments at Columbia.
Courses
Executive Education at Columbia Business School
Want to become a better leader, accelerate your advancement, or enhance your managerial knowledge and skills? Columbia Business School Executive Education offers short, nondegree courses (from 2 to 26 days long) in leadership, strategy, marketing, and finance. These top-ranked programs provide learning in the form of practical tools and knowledge that has a positive impact on your career and your organization's performance. Columbia Executive Education offers participants a unique experience that enables them to learn and interact with executives from around the world. Many of our courses are now included in Columbia University's development offerings for officers. Eligible Columbia University staff and faculty receive a 25-percent reduction in program fees.
M.S. in Real Estate Development
With continued business consolidation, sustained transformations in capital markets, swiftly changing demographics, and new conflicts between fast-expanding suburbs and traditional urban city centers, tomorrow's real-estate developers must be capable of balancing multiple objectives with new solution methodologies. To address these challenges, the intensive one-year Master's of Science in Real Estate Development Program (MSRED) at Columbia focuses on a process-oriented format.
Concept Development—including the creation of new real-estate products and repositioning of under-performing real-estate assets
Financial Analysis—project feasibility and finance, market support, and demographic analysis
Public Policy—the politics of development approvals and the evolution of public/private partnering
Enterprise Management—best practices for creative management of project teams and the development process
Master's Degree Program in Strategic Communications
Designed specifically with the needs of working professionals in mind, the Strategic Communications program at Columbia teaches students to become strategic thinkers, to develop and evaluate an organization's communications conceptually, critically, and creatively.
Executive Master of Science in Technology Management
This is a program for mid-career technical professionals, designed to teach them to be effective managers of technology with the ability to evaluate the benefits of emerging technologies and apply them strategically in the business environment.
Auditing Columbia Classes
The School of Continuing Education's Auditing Program is open to Columbia alumni. Through this program it is possible to attend a limited number of Arts and Sciences lecture classes in the fall and spring.
Free Library Access
Alumni with degrees or certificates from Columbia University may receive reading privileges at campus libraries for a fee of five dollars for ten years. Please visit the Library Information Office, Room 201 Butler Library, 9 a.m.–6 p.m. Monday through Friday and noon–5 p.m. on Saturday, to apply. Or you may reach them via email at lio@columbia.edu or by phone at (212) 854-7309.
Alumni who wish to borrow books may obtain borrowing privileges for a fee of thirty dollars per month. Please contact the Library Information Office for more information.
America Since 1945: The Rise of the Right
In The Rise of the Right, the final e-seminar in the ten-part series
America Since 1945, historian Alan Brinkley discusses the emergence of
conservatism as a powerful political and cultural force in the United
States during the past quarter-century.
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