Academic Advising

Advising Resources

Columbia offers students a comprehensive advising system, combining one-on-one advising with a variety of supplemental outreach resources and services. A central goal of the College’s multiple-source advising program is to enable students to acquire several personal advisers along with several supplementary advisers. To assist students in finding their way among these, extensive advising resources have been aggregated withing the Advising Resources @ Columbia Web site. The site presents the following:

• Available advisers, resources, and opportunities, enabling students to understand holistically the wealth of resources available at Columbia College.

• A detailed explanation of why the College has a multiple-source advising system, how it works, and how students can get the most out of it.

• A vast amount of information about programs and advisers that will help students locate the right kind of adviser for a particular kind of question.

• A “major comparison” tool, which analyzes all majors in terms of the same set of basic questions, so that students can compare academic programs in detail as a prelude to talking to advisers about particular majors.

• Multiple tools providing different access points to advising resources and presenting the cohesive linkages between resources.

NOTE: In most departments, a faculty adviser is assigned to majors and concentrators in their junior and senior years.