Columbia Institute Overview

Located in Silver Spring, Maryland, Columbia Institute is a private for-profit institution. Columbia Institute is located in a safe and convenient suburb.

What Is Columbia Institute Known For?

• The undergraduate certificate is the highest award offered at Columbia Institute.

Columbia Institute Rankings

These rankings may look different from those published by other outlets, because we use an outcomes-based approach rather than a subjective one. We get our data from a number of places, including the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) and the College Scorecard. For more information, check out our rankings and methodology page.

Program Level Awards

These are highlights of some of the most noteworthy awards granted to specific programs at Columbia Institute.

Rank	Ranking Name	Share
#2	Most Popular English Language & Literature Undergraduate Certificate Schools	Tweet It - Post It
#2	Most Popular General English Literature Undergraduate Certificate Schools	Tweet It - Post It

Where Is Columbia Institute?

Contact details for Columbia Institute are given below.

	Contact Details
Address:	12125 Veirs Mill Rd., Silver Spring, MD 20906-4503
Phone:	301-929-0565

How Do I Get Into Columbia Institute?

You can apply to Columbia Institute online at: https://www.ccdc.edu/?page_id=20741

Columbia Institute has an open admissions policy. This means that the school accepts all applicants assuming that they meet very basic requirements, such as having a high school diploma or equivalent.

Can I Afford Columbia Institute?

Student Loan Debt

Almost 66% of college students who graduated with the class of 2018 took out student loans, but that percentage varies from school to school. At Columbia Institute, approximately 2% of students took out student loans averaging $4,644 a year. That adds up to $18,576 over four years for those students.

The student loan default rate at Columbia Institute is 8.9%. Although this is lower than the national default rate of 10.1%, you'll still want to keep this in mind when taking out student loans.

Columbia Institute Undergraduate Student Diversity

There are 112 undergraduate students at Columbia Institute, with 101 being full-time and 11 being part-time.

Gender Diversity

Of the 101 full-time undergraduates at Columbia Institute, 33% are male and 67% are female.

Racial-Ethnic Diversity

The racial-ethnic breakdown of Columbia Institute students is as follows.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Grads
Asian	46
Black or African American	4
Hispanic or Latino	17
White	27
International Students	7
Other Races/Ethnicities	0

Online Learning at Columbia Institute

In 2019-2020, 112 students took at least one online class at the school.

The following chart shows how the online learning population at Columbia Institute has changed over the last few years.

This school is the 30th most popular in Maryland for online learning according to the online graduations recorded by the Department of Education for the academic year 2019-2020.

Columbia Institute Undergraduate Concentrations

The table below shows the number of awards for each concentration.

Major	Basic Certificate	Undergraduate Certificate	TOTAL
General English Literature	0	53	53
Somatic Bodywork & Therapeutic Services	32	0	32
TOTAL	32	53	85

References

*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.

• College Factual
• National Center for Education Statistics

More about our data sources and methodologies.