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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Not a consortium.  You get a degree from your college (BC, CC, Engineering, GS).  Your diploma says where you graduated.

My CV says Columbia College, Columbia University. NO ONE writes "Columbia University" when they went to Barnard.

When people say "where did you go"? You answer "Barnard" if Barnard, and "Columbia" if you went to the college.
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Not what I've seen.  Barnard is a constituent college of Columbia no less than any of the others.  It's a state law and it's literally in the Columbia charter.  I know tons of Barnard grads who use Columbia as short-hand and it's perfectly accurate for them to do so.  
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Columbia University is the umbrella organization, if you will. Barnard College and Columbia College are two constituent colleges under this umbrella (along with a law school, school of medicine, and more). If your friends are talking about their undergraduate degrees, they got them from Barnard College.[/quote]

Umm, no, PP, Barnard does not grant degrees.  Check a Barnard diploma.  It's awarded by Columbia.  A Barnard BA is a Columbia degree.  A Barnard grad is also automatically a member of the Columbia University Alum Fed.  It's pretty simple; there's a state law that says so and both Columbia and Barnard signed an implementing agreement.  
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It sounds like an explanation of the difference between colleges and universities would be helpful here. Colleges are generally for undergraduate degrees. Barnard College is a college, and there is a separate Columbia College which is coed. Both are undergraduate institutions within the larger Columbia University. Columbia University also includes multiple graduate schools.

So if your friend is talking about her *college* experience, she went to Barnard College. It would be incorrect for her to imply that she went to Columbia College, because that's a different beast and a different experience - different course requirements and coed.[/quote]

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