Columbia College Chicago is a premier arts and media education institution that trains the creators, communicators and marketers who shape what’s next. Columbia offers nearly 7,500 students more than 100 programs in visual arts, media and digital arts, fine and performing arts, business and management, and music and sound. Rigorously creative and academically inspired, Columbia provides students with a strong foundation in business, technology and liberal arts and sciences to prepare them for career success. Columbia attracts faculty who are leading practitioners and artists in their fields and is a vital force in Chicago and the nation’s cultural landscape.