Educational InstitutionsEducational Organization

Barnard College

Barnard College is a private women's liberal arts college in New York City, New York, United States. It is affiliated with Columbia University and was founded in 1889 by a group of women led by young student activist Annie Nathan Meyer, who petitioned Columbia University's trustees to create an affiliated college named after university president Frederick A. P. Barnard. The college is one of the original Seven Sisters—seven liberal arts colleges in the Northeastern United States that were historically women's colleges.

Identifiers

OPEID6 Six-digit base OPE ID (without the two-digit branch suffix)
2708
OPEID Office of Postsecondary Education Identifier, used for federal financial aid program participation
270800
IPEDS UNITID Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System identifier assigned by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES)
189097
DAPIP ID Database of Accredited Postsecondary Institutions and Programs identifier from the U.S. Department of Education
129473

Location

New York, NY, 10027-6598

40.810098, -73.963346

Accreditation

Middle States Commission on Higher Education

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