Barnard College

Barnard College, located in Morningside Heights in Manhattan, was founded for women students in 1889 with the dream of extending a top-tier education to those traditionally excluded from college. Today, we offer women from all backgrounds a four-year education that combines the intimacy of a small liberal arts college with the expansiveness of its Ivy League partner, Columbia University. In the years since its founding, Barnard has adopted need-blind admissions and deliberately built programming to position our graduates as leaders in fields where women are traditionally underrepresented, particularly in STEM.

At Barnard, we believe that financial circumstances should never be a barrier when qualified students seek the transformative power of education. For this reason, the College meets the full financial need of our student body, admitting increasingly diverse, selective classes of students, regardless of their financial background. More than one-third of all Barnard students receive some form of financial aid.

Contributions to Barnard support the College’s top priorities, which include scholarships and financial aid as described above, resources for first-generation and low-income students, student and faculty research, and student health and wellness.