Graduate Students and Prospective Students
We attract undergraduate and graduate students and postdoctoral researchers from all backgrounds and support their educational goals through mentoring, advising, fellowships, and programming.
Current Graduate Students
Resources & Support
- Graduate Student Affairs
- QStem: A community of LGBTQ+ students pursuing STEM fields at Columbia University.
- DGE: Diversity in Graduate Engineering
- EGSC: Engineering Graduate Student Council
- GradSWE: Graduate Society of Women Engineers
- Students of Color Support Space
- Diversity student life
- Bridge to the Ph.D. Program in STEM
- WISE Conference (Women in Science and Engineering)
- Pathways to Professorship - event to help students plan for and navigate a career in academia
- Computer Science Career Services
- PDL: Professional Development and Leadership
- CORE² - Hosts events and activities to support and build community among Black and Latinx students. Students gather monthly to promote inclusivity among peers.
- Columbia University LGBTQ+ Guide - Resources to Foster an Affirming Community for LGBTQ+ Faculty, Students and Staff was informed by individual interviews with faculty and staff, as well as focus groups of graduate and undergraduate students. The project seeks to create a comprehensive one-stop living repository of campus resources, and to relay recommendations from interviewees about how we all can be better, more visible LGBTQ+ allies.
Training
Entrepreneurship
- Columbia's Program for Diversity and Inclusion in Commercialization and Entrepreneurship (DICE): Open to graduate students and postdocs who identify as being from traditionally underrepresented groups in life science entrepreneurship and commercialization. DICE will provide eligible Columbia graduate students and postdocs with educational programming, mentorship, networking, and funding opportunities to prepare participants for careers in bringing life science innovation to market.
Prospective Graduate Students
- EngAGE (Engineering Achievers in Graduate Education)
STUDENT RECRUITMENT
- Electrical Engineering:
- In-person pre-application orientation day to guide applicants to PhD programs through application process
- Online webinar for applicants
Postdoctoral Students
Contact
If you have questions, feedback, suggestions, or want to get involved with diversity initiatives at Columbia Engineering, send us an email at [email protected].