Where is your future?
Whether it is in construction management, medical physics, genomics or water resources and climate risks, you can select from more than 40 graduate degree concentrations or programs at Columbia SEAS. Tomorrow’s world will be determined by the today’s students, so we invite you to explore your options and your future at The Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science. For information on specific graduate programs, scroll through the Department Quick Link at left.
Students are also great sources when considering where to apply to graduate school. At Columbia SEAS, students say the professors at this Ivy League university do not take its lofty reputation for granted.
Click image to watch video profile of Sam Krevor, a graduate student in the Earth and Environmental Engineering Department.
“Professors never cease to amaze me with their depth of expertise,” says Yihe Wu, left, of Staten Island (MS’09 Financial Engineering). “In addition to being the leading expert in their respective field, they also demonstrate significant effort in being a good teacher and always available for additional help if needed.”
At the same time, Wu says, professors ground the program in real-world practicality.
“In addition to theoretical teaching, the program also offers many practitioner seminars to forge a connection between academia and the corporate world, which is very helpful and important.”
The quality of fellow students expands the learning experience, says Wu and Michael Clark, who will graduate in December with an M.S. in Chemical Engineering.
“Simply discussing a topic with other members of my group gives me insights that I had never considered before, and provides me with new ways to look at each problem,” Clark says. “This is the most exciting experience: watching my mental toolbox grow as fast as it has been.”
Kira Schiavello (MS’09 Civil Engineering) has scaled the top of the Manhattan Bridge (see photo at left) as part of her studies.
“The Brooklyn Bridge was on one side, the city skyline was in front of us, and the massive cables reached out to the tiny cars going by below,” she says. “It really made me appreciate the incredible magnitude of the structure, one that we may take for granted as we drive over it every day.”
Schiavello says the experience has brought to life her concentration in Structural Engineering.
“No longer was the behavior of a graph just an abstract idea, now I could actually see how the data graph represented, say, a subway car going over one side of the bridge.”