Located in nine cities across four continents, the Global Centers are Columbia’s physical and intellectual manifestation in the world. We offer a unique platform that facilitates collaborative and impactful engagement of the University’s faculty, students, staff, and alumni, through educational programs, research collaborations, internship opportunities, and many other programs and initiatives.
Columbia Global Centers bring our campus to the world and the world to campus–building connections, sharing knowledge, and helping address global challenges.
Virtual Internships
Columbia Global Centers around the world have identified hundreds of virtual internships throughout their partner networks, which will be available to review January 20th, 2022. Despite travel restrictions, students will be able to find a rewarding opportunity as a global intern doing important work.
Forced Migration: A Global Centers Signature Focus
“Forced migration is a global humanitarian tragedy. It disrupts the lives, hopes, and potential of so many, in ways that are profound and long lasting. The Global Centers leverage the strength of Columbia’s intellectual assets and resources to address the complex challenges posed by forced migration, through signature initiatives such as our Committee on Forced Migration, the Scholarship for Displaced Students, our Mellon Foundation Fellowships, and, as a response to the Afghanistan crisis, with the initiative to host displaced Afghan scholars. These efforts are making a difference."
Safwan M. Masri, Executive Vice President for Global Centers and Global Development, Columbia University
Meet the 2021 Displaced Student Scholarship Recipients
The Columbia University Scholarship for Displaced Students - Columbia's first-ever University-wide scholarship, and the world's first scholarship of its kind - supports displaced students from anywhere in the world by offering them full scholarships to pursue undergraduate or graduate degrees across Columbia’s 19 schools and affiliates.
We are pleased to announce our second cohort of 15 students, who join Columbia from 11 countries and attend 10 different Columbia schools. Click on their individual profiles below to learn more about their incredible journeys.
Across its first two cohorts, the Scholarship has now supported 33 students from 19 countries attending 14 schools.
(Note: some scholarship students wished to remain anonymous due to their sensitive statuses and are not profiled below.)
Featured Webinars From Our Centers
Events
From Climate Commitments to Implementation: COP31 Outlook and China’s Role
Catching What's Shifting: Climate-Sensitive Infectious Disease
Fall 2026 Columbia Engineering Virtual China Career Fair
News
War Without Rules: Why Frontline Workers Are Under Attack
As conflict zones become harder to access and frontline workers are increasingly targeted, a group of leading journalists, humanitarians, and researchers gathered at the Frontlines conference to trace these developments, share field testimony, and discuss how they can adapt to this new era of warfare.
Bridges & Breakthroughs: Interdisciplinary Student Conference on Migration & Displacement
Migration doesn't fit inside one discipline. Neither did this conference. Students from public health, law, education, anthropology, and the arts spent an afternoon comparing what they're learning about migration and displacement.
An Academic Summer: From the Panathenaic Stadium to Venetian Greece
Four academic programs brought Columbia students to Greece over the summer months, connecting them directly with the country's cultural and historical landscape.
