Columbia University

Quality:

Columbia University - private university in New York City, New York, US. This university is the 7^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of universities and the 6^th most popular university in English Wikipedia. Article “Columbia University” in English Wikipedia has 81.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 430 references and 38 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 14.45 points.

This article has the best quality in Chinese Wikipedia. However, this article is the most popular in English version.

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

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The 4566^th most popular in English Wikipedia.

en

The 1582^nd most editable in English Wikipedia.

The 6^th most popular in universities in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 6981^st most popular in all topics.

The 3386^th most popular in AI.

The 7^th most popular in universities.

Achievements in the last month:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 9419^th most popular in English Wikipedia in the last month.

In June 2026 the article “Columbia University” was edited by 5 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 19 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Columbia University”, its content was written by 1711 registered users of English Wikipedia (1582^nd place) and edited by 4315 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (3386^th place).

Columbia University is on the 6^th place in local ranking of universities in English Wikipedia and on the 7^th place in global ranking of universities in all the time.

The article is cited 28346 times in English Wikipedia (474^th place) and cited 96572 times in all languages (1485^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #196 in May 2004
• Global: #641 in December 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #1345 in April 2024
• Global: #2166 in April 2024

There are 54 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2026 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	Chinese (zh) 哥伦比亚大学		88.637
2	English (en) Columbia University		81.8765
3	Catalan (ca) Universitat de Colúmbia		79.5475
4	Japanese (ja) コロンビア大学		76.0914
5	Georgian (ka) კოლუმბიის უნივერსიტეტი		74.5072
6	Vietnamese (vi) Đại học Columbia		74.2289
7	Hebrew (he) אוניברסיטת קולומביה		71.2803
8	Portuguese (pt) Universidade Columbia		68.2472
9	German (de) Columbia University		61.3532
10	Turkish (tr) Columbia Üniversitesi		57.7712

The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Columbia University		22 436 288
2	Japanese (ja) コロンビア大学		2 151 127
3	Chinese (zh) 哥伦比亚大学		1 500 043
4	Spanish (es) Universidad de Columbia		1 366 101
5	French (fr) Université Columbia		1 165 990
6	Russian (ru) Колумбийский университет		1 113 044
7	German (de) Columbia University		1 111 531
8	Italian (it) Università Columbia		640 348
9	Portuguese (pt) Universidade Columbia		463 850
10	Polish (pl) Uniwersytet Columbia		386 240

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Columbia University		62 371
2	Japanese (ja) コロンビア大学		5 477
3	Chinese (zh) 哥伦比亚大学		5 345
4	Spanish (es) Universidad de Columbia		3 646
5	Russian (ru) Колумбийский университет		2 917
6	German (de) Columbia University		2 781
7	French (fr) Université Columbia		2 551
8	Persian (fa) دانشگاه کلمبیا		1 637
9	Italian (it) Università Columbia		1 387
10	Portuguese (pt) Universidade Columbia		843

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Columbia University		1 711
2	German (de) Columbia University		293
3	French (fr) Université Columbia		238
4	Japanese (ja) コロンビア大学		227
5	Chinese (zh) 哥伦比亚大学		154
6	Hebrew (he) אוניברסיטת קולומביה		140
7	Italian (it) Università Columbia		127
8	Korean (ko) 컬럼비아 대학교		114
9	Russian (ru) Колумбийский университет		113
10	Spanish (es) Universidad de Columbia		98

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Columbia University		5
2	Hebrew (he) אוניברסיטת קולומביה		3
3	Arabic (ar) جامعة كولومبيا		1
4	German (de) Columbia University		1
5	Esperanto (eo) Universitato Kolumbio		1
6	Basque (eu) Columbia Unibertsitatea		1
7	French (fr) Université Columbia		1
8	Indonesian (id) Universitas Columbia		1
9	Japanese (ja) コロンビア大学		1
10	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Univerzitet Columbia		1

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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