Anonymous wrote:Columbia College alumnus here. Barnard is a great college choice and it is not a back door or second fiddle to Columbia College at all. While Barnard graduates have always received a Columbia University diploma, it is a separate institution with its own dorms, curriculum, trustees, faculty, endowment, and culture. Its students have the advantages of a women's college with the option to pick and choose from what the larger university has to offer. Barnard students have full access to the extracurricular activities, research opportunities, and courses across Broadway.
+1 Columbia College Alumna here. At least in my day, Barnard language courses were considered better. It was wonderful to have so much variety of perspectives and teaching styles. And as the person above remarked, students at both colleges have full access to the extracurricular activities. I was involved with a Barnard theater group, along with a number of other young men and women from the college.