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GRADUATE ADMISSIONS UPDATE - JULY 22, 2024

The Columbia Philosophy Department, after a highly successful PhD admissions exercise in 2024 that recruited a large incoming class, is pausing PhD admissions for the 2025-26 admissions cycle and is not accepting applications for Fall 2025 entry. We will resume PhD admissions for Fall 2026 entry. We continue to welcome admissions for the MA in Philosophy and the MA in Philosophical Foundations of Physics

Philosophy at Columbia University

Home to a distinguished tradition of philosophical research and teaching, the Department of Philosophy at Columbia University provides a comprehensive academic atmosphere for pursuing advanced study in a wide range of philosophical subjects and methods—systematic, analytic, and historical. The Department has a faculty with an unusually broad range of interests and areas of expertise that span the main periods of the history of western philosophy and nearly every major area of contemporary philosophical debate.

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