Impact Areas

Support student entrepreneurship through learning opportunities, facilities for building their ideas, and grants to help them take their innovations to market.

Help Columbia continue to recruit and retain the world’s top researchers and teachers.

Ensure engineering education at the highest levels remains accessible to students from every background.

You already know the value Columbia Engineering is providing for your child. Help make this transformational opportunity available to others by contributing to the Engineering Parents Fund.

What happens outside the classroom and lab can make as great an impact on a student’s career as what happens within. Help provide the resources to foster a dynamic community that supports students both personally and professionally. 

Support future generations of engineering students. This fund is dedicated to fostering a diverse and dynamic student body, ready to tackle the challenges of a rapidly evolving world.

Create opportunities for select engineering students to participate in unpaid or low-paid summer internships to advance their studies and careers.

Named after the Spanish word for “to shine light,” the new scholarship supports students actively engaged in Columbia’s Latino/a community, with a goal of increasing the presence and impact of members of this community within the field of engineering.

The Combined Plan program allows students to complete both a liberal arts and engineering degree in as little as five years. Participants in the program can complete all years of the program at Columbia, or earn the liberal arts degree at another school before completing the engineering portion at Columbia. This fund expands opportunities for students pursuing this path.

Established by the Columbia University Hong Kong Alumni Club, this fund primarily supports students who are residents of Hong Kong, Mainland China, or Taiwan.

Named in honor of Columbia’s first Black graduate, who graduated from the School of Mines in the 1870s, this fund supports Black undergraduate engineering students who have demonstrated leadership in and support of the Black community.

Joseph F. Traub was a pioneering computer scientist, the founding chair of the Computer Science Department at Columbia, and a significant contributor to the field. A gift from alumni and friends in his honor established this fund, which provides financial support for graduate students in engineering. 

The Mahsa Amini Graduate Fellowship was endowed in 2023 to honor the memory of Mahsa (Jina) Amini مهسا (ژینا) امینی. Eligible students will have lived or studied in Iran and have overcome systemic challenges, such as gender-based or other obstacles, in their academic pursuits. In the absence of eligible students from Iran in any year, the fellowship may be awarded to students who have lived or studied in the following countries: Afghanistan, Algeria, Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Oman, Pakistan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, and Yemen. 

Established by the Columbia Alumni Association of Taiwan, one of the largest alumni associations of an American university in the area, this scholarship provides funding for engineering students who are residents of Taiwan.

Van C. Mow was an early pioneer in the field of biomechanics and the founding chair of the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Columbia. This fund was established in his honor by Yuling Wei to provide fellowships for doctoral students at Columbia Engineering who are or plan to be engaged in biomedical research. 

Z.Y. Fu was a successful entrepreneur and philanthropist, providing generous support to Columbia Engineering over many years, including funding for outstanding students of Chinese origin to attend the school. Alumni who benefited from his generosity established this scholarship in his name, continuing to help deserving Chinese students receive the world-class education Columbia Engineering offers.

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