Columbia College is located in Chicago, Cook County, IL, and has an enrollment of about 9,000. Student housing is available for 349.
The College is the nation's largest arts and communications college and evolved from a speech college for women founded in 1890.
During the early years, the institution served as a teachers college and later took advantage of the growing field of radio broadcasting, eventually moving into television and other areas of mass communications.
Their programs include Art and Design, Arts Management, Dance, Digital Media Technology, Early Childhood Education, Fiction Writing, Film and Video, Interactive Multimedia, ASL-English Interpretation, Journalism, Marketing Communication, Music, Musical Theater Performance, Photography, Poetry, Radio, Sound, Television, and Theater.
There are undergraduate programs as well as graduate level studies at the College.