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Our student-led Campus Tours are fun, guided experiences that let you see firsthand all the greatness Columbia College Chicago has to offer—from our color-splashed South Loop campus to our bubbling student community. During these 90-minute tours, you’ll have a chance to check out the spaces and facilities for your program of interest.
Columbia is accredited as a teacher training institution by the Illinois State Board of Education. For more information about Columbia’s accreditation, please contact: Higher Learning Commission. 230 South LaSalle St. Suite 7-500. Chicago, IL 60604-1411. 800-621-7440. 312-263-0456. Fax 312-263-7462.
Columbia College Chicago’s five-story, 114,000-square-foot student center is the first on its expansive urban campus since the school’s founding in 1890. The structure provides a diverse student body with a welcoming, inspiring hub for creativity, collaboration and chance encounters.
Our student-led Campus Tours are fun, guided experiences that let you see firsthand all the greatness Columbia College Chicago has to offer—from our color-splashed South Loop campus to our bubbling student community. During these 90-minute tours, you’ll have a chance to check out the spaces and facilities for your program of interest. All ...
Columbia College, situated in the heart of Southern Alberta, acknowledges and honours the traditional territories of the Treaty 7 peoples. These include the Niitsitapi (Blackfoot Confederacy), which comprises the Siksika, Piikani, and Kainai First Nations, the Tsuut’ina First Nation, and the Stoney Nakoda — specifically the Chiniki, Bearspaw, and Goodstoney First Nations.
About President Kim. Kwang‑Wu Kim, D.M.A., has been the president and chief executive officer of Columbia College Chicago since July 1, 2013. A native Chicagoan with over thirty years of experience as a performer, teacher, and administrator, he is an outspoken advocate of the value of creative practice as a mode of learning, understanding, and creating new knowledge.
HISTORY. Columbia College Chicago was founded in 1890 as the Columbia School of Oratory by Mary A. Blood and Ida Morey Riley, graduates of the Monroe Conservatory of Oratory, now Emerson College, in Boston, Massachusetts. The school focused on the teaching of elocution, public speaking, and physical culture. In 1904 the school changed its name ...
