New York is a great Barnard’s college

Paradoxically, it is easy to forget that Barnard is a women’s college, what with the intellectual excitement and the variety of activity on the campus. Barnard’s unique relationship with Columbia University means that Barnard’s women have access to a coed experience at all times, but on their own terms. It also means that the Barnard faculty and administration have as their main focus and attention the female Barnard student body,

not the coed masses across the street (literally-Columbia’s campus is just on the east side of Broad
way). Therefore, the Barnard students is taught by faculty members rather than teaching assistants. These scholars are experts in their fields and have immeasurable resources that they share with their students.

 Add to this wonderful mixture Barnard’s New York City location-now considered the safest major city in America by the FBI-and one begins to see what all the fuss is about. A stroll down Broadway, a bus ride uptown, or a subway trip to Greenwich Village enables students to experiment in the most diverse cultural laboratory this side of the United Nations (where students regularly intern). The glamour of Fifth Avenue and the glitter of Broadway are equally accessible. And as in any urban setting, opportunities abound to make a difference in the community. Barnard women serve as legal advocates to the homeless, tutors in the America Reads program and providers of hot meals through the Community Lunch Program. So nice they named it twice, New York is a great college town.