Columbia University Medical Center is name of the medical complex associated with Columbia University located in Washington Heights area of Manhattan. Formerly known as the Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center, the name change coincided with the formation in 1997 of New York-Presbyterian Hospital, a merger of two medical centers each affiliated with an Ivy League university: Columbia University Medical Center and New York Weill CornellMedical Center. Columbia University is a private university in New York City. ... Washington Heights is located in Upper Manhattan. ... Manhattan is an island bordering the lower Hudson River. ... New York-Presbyterian Hospital is a prominent university hospital in New York City, composed of two medical centers, Columbia University Medical Center and New York Weill Cornell Medical Center. ... The Ivy League is an athletics association, founded in 1954, of eight universities located in the eastern United States. ... For other uses of the name Cornell, see Cornell (disambiguation). ... The Joan and Sanford I. Weill Medical College is the medical school and biomedical research unit of Cornell University. ...
Columbia's main campus occupies six blocks, 32 acres (132,000 m²), in the Morningside Heights neighborhood of Manhattan, and its largest satellite campus, Health Sciences, is situated some fifty blocks uptown in the island's Washington Heights.
Columbia's fencing team in the late 20th century was one of the nation's most successful, with NCAA team championships in 1987, 1988, 1989, 1992 and 1993.
Columbia is the oldest institution of higher education in the state of New York and the sixth-oldest in the United States.
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