University Web Archive
Columbia University website, 2009
Columbia domain websites (sites with a columbia.edu address) have been crawled and preserved by University Archives since 1996 and are available in this web archive collection.
Additional selected sites without a columbia.edu address, such as publications and student groups, are also captured in the web crawls.
Frequency of web captures
- Up to 2015: Annually (December)
- 2015 to the present: Semi-annually (June and December)
- Pages containing information concerning course offerings: Quarterly (for Fall, Spring, and Summer sessions)
Commonly requested web information
Within the University Web Archive, you can sort websites related to the following commonly-requested groups:
- Administration
- Alumni magazines
- Athletics
- Centers and institutes
- Course bulletins
- Honors and awards
- Libraries
- Schools and departments
- Student organizations
- Student publications
Course bulletins & descriptions
Course Descriptions are the most frequently requested information from the University Web Archive.
- The course bulletin grouping in the University Web Archive will help you search for course descriptions.
- For some of the older online course information, try navigating the archived Columbia University website to the appropriate school or department pages to look for online course descriptions.
As schools moved course description information from annual published paper catalogues to online-only distribution, the Web Archive provides what is sometimes the only publicly available access to old, online course descriptions. Not every course description for every school has been captured, but descriptions for courses offered by Columbia College, School of Engineering and Applied Science, School of General Studies, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS), Graduate School of Architecture and Architectural Planning (GSAAP), and the School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) are usually available. If a school only posted online course descriptions in the CourseWorks system, that content was not able to be collected due to the secure nature of the site.
Learn more about preserving a University website in the Archive.
If you encounter any broken links on our archived pages or have any further suggestions as to what should be captured or highlighted, please email uarchives@columbia.edu.