History
Founded in 1890 as a college of elocution, Columbia was granted full accreditation as a four-year, undergraduate, liberal arts school in 1974.
Specialties
Columbia College Chicago is an international leader and pioneer in arts education, with more than 120 years of deep experience teaching creative students to develop authentic voices, meaningful skills, and to graduate fully prepared to launch sustainable careers in the visual, performing, media and communication arts. We are a creative power-house; a wildly diverse collective of the world's leading artists and communicators - students and faculty who share a passion for telling stories that reflect and shape culture, that define our world.