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Columbia College Chicago

by Jason Block

I feel fortunate that I attended the largest art college in the United States, Columbia College Chicago. Some of the college’s alumni became household names who went on to distinguish themselves in the arts. Andy Richter, Pat Sajak, Aidan Quinn, and HBO president Len Amato all attended Columbia College Chicago, as have authors, television personalities, artists, journalists, marketing professionals, business executives, and many others.

The college contains three schools: the School of Fine & Performing Arts, the School of Media Arts, and the School of Liberal Arts & Sciences. A diversity of degree programs exist in each of the three schools, such as art and design, dance, film and video, journalism, science and mathematics, education, fashion studies, photography, radio, and fiction writing. The college designed its programs so that students could excel as arts professionals in multiple industries.

All of Columbia College Chicago’s campuses are located in Chicago, although the college does host a Semester in Los Angeles program at the CBS Studio Center in Studio City, Los Angeles. The college enrolls around 12,500 students matriculating in 120 graduate and undergraduate degree programs.

Columbia College Chicago grew out of a women’s speech and teaching college founded in 1890. In the 1950s, the college expanded into other areas of arts, such as television, radio, communications, and other media arts; however, Columbia College Chicago struggled financially throughout the 1950s and early 1960s. In 1963, a new college president reformulated the school’s educational and enrollment policies, creating an open-enrollment plan and moving academics toward an affordable liberal arts education. The new paradigm revitalized the college’s flagging student body, which has grown since 1963 to its current numbers.