Courses
Start building your summer today by selecting from hundreds of Columbia courses from various topics of interest. Courses for Summer 2026 are now available, with new offerings being added throughout the winter into early spring.
Please note: listing your desired courses in your visiting application does not automatically register you for those courses, nor does it guarantee seat availability.
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This course offers students an opportunity to expand their curriculum beyond the established course offerings. Interested parties must consult with the QMSS Program Director before adding the class. This course may be taken for 2-4 points.
Prerequisites: some high school algebra. Designed for students in fields that emphasize quantitative methods. This course satisfies the statistics requirements of all majors except statistics, economics, and engineering. Graphical and numerical summaries, probability, theory of sampling distributions, linear regression, confidence intervals, and hypothesis testing are taught as aids to quantitative reasoning and data analysis. Use of statistical software required. Illustrations are taken from a variety of fields. Data-collection/analysis project with emphasis on study designs is part of the coursework requirement.
Instructor
Ji Meng Loh
Modality
In-Person
Day/Time
Mo 18:15-19:50
Tu 18:15-19:50
We 18:15-19:50
Th 18:15-19:50
Enrollment
0 of 35
Wall Street Prep: Economics, Finance, and Analytics
Visiting students can take this course as part of a Focus Area.
The Wall Street Prep: Economics, Finance, and Analytics Focus Area is designed for students who want to gain a better understanding of finance, business, and the complexities of economic systems. Students enhance their academic experience through specialized co-curricular activities exclusive to the city and earn a Certification of Participation.
Prerequisites: some high school algebra. Designed for students in fields that emphasize quantitative methods. This course satisfies the statistics requirements of all majors except statistics, economics, and engineering. Graphical and numerical summaries, probability, theory of sampling distributions, linear regression, confidence intervals, and hypothesis testing are taught as aids to quantitative reasoning and data analysis. Use of statistical software required. Illustrations are taken from a variety of fields. Data-collection/analysis project with emphasis on study designs is part of the coursework requirement.
Instructor
Anthony Donoghue
Modality
On-Line Only
Day/Time
Tu 10:45-12:20
Mo 10:45-12:20
We 10:45-12:20
Th 10:45-12:20
Enrollment
0 of 35
Wall Street Prep: Economics, Finance, and Analytics
Visiting students can take this course as part of a Focus Area.
The Wall Street Prep: Economics, Finance, and Analytics Focus Area is designed for students who want to gain a better understanding of finance, business, and the complexities of economic systems. Students enhance their academic experience through specialized co-curricular activities exclusive to the city and earn a Certification of Participation.
Instructor
Modality
In-Person
Day/Time
Mo 10:45-12:20
Tu 10:45-12:20
We 10:45-12:20
Th 10:45-12:20
Enrollment
0 of 35
Wall Street Prep: Economics, Finance, and Analytics
Visiting students can take this course as part of a Focus Area.
The Wall Street Prep: Economics, Finance, and Analytics Focus Area is designed for students who want to gain a better understanding of finance, business, and the complexities of economic systems. Students enhance their academic experience through specialized co-curricular activities exclusive to the city and earn a Certification of Participation.
Instructor
Modality
In-Person
Day/Time
Mo 18:15-19:50
Tu 18:15-19:50
We 18:15-19:50
Th 18:15-19:50
Enrollment
0 of 35
Wall Street Prep: Economics, Finance, and Analytics
Visiting students can take this course as part of a Focus Area.
The Wall Street Prep: Economics, Finance, and Analytics Focus Area is designed for students who want to gain a better understanding of finance, business, and the complexities of economic systems. Students enhance their academic experience through specialized co-curricular activities exclusive to the city and earn a Certification of Participation.
Prerequisites: A good working knowledge of calculus, including derivatives, single and double, limits, sums and series. Life is a gamble and with some knowledge of probability / statistics is easier evaluate the risks and rewards involved. Probability theory allows us take a known underlying model and estimate how likely will we be able to see future events. Statistical Inference allows us to take data we have seen and estimate the missing parts of an unknown model. The first part of the course focus on the former and the second part the latter.
Instructor
Gabriel Young
Modality
In-Person
Day/Time
Mo 16:30-18:05
Tu 16:30-18:05
We 16:30-18:05
Th 16:30-18:05
Enrollment
0 of 35
Wall Street Prep: Economics, Finance, and Analytics
Visiting students can take this course as part of a Focus Area.
The Wall Street Prep: Economics, Finance, and Analytics Focus Area is designed for students who want to gain a better understanding of finance, business, and the complexities of economic systems. Students enhance their academic experience through specialized co-curricular activities exclusive to the city and earn a Certification of Participation.
Instructor
Young Kim
Modality
In-Person
Day/Time
Mo 16:30-18:05
Tu 16:30-18:05
We 16:30-18:05
Th 16:30-18:05
Enrollment
0 of 25
Wall Street Prep: Economics, Finance, and Analytics
Visiting students can take this course as part of a Focus Area.
The Wall Street Prep: Economics, Finance, and Analytics Focus Area is designed for students who want to gain a better understanding of finance, business, and the complexities of economic systems. Students enhance their academic experience through specialized co-curricular activities exclusive to the city and earn a Certification of Participation.
Instructor
Modality
In-Person
Day/Time
Mo 18:15-19:50
Tu 18:15-19:50
We 18:15-19:50
Th 18:15-19:50
Enrollment
0 of 25
Wall Street Prep: Economics, Finance, and Analytics
Visiting students can take this course as part of a Focus Area.
The Wall Street Prep: Economics, Finance, and Analytics Focus Area is designed for students who want to gain a better understanding of finance, business, and the complexities of economic systems. Students enhance their academic experience through specialized co-curricular activities exclusive to the city and earn a Certification of Participation.
Prerequisites: STAT GU4204 or the equivalent, and a course in linear algebra. Theory and practice of regression analysis. Simple and multiple regression, testing, estimation, prediction, and confidence procedures, modeling, regression diagnostics and plots, polynomial regression, colinearity and confounding, model selection, geometry of least squares. Extensive use of the computer to analyse data.
Instructor
Daniel Rabinowitz
Modality
In-Person
Day/Time
Mo 18:15-19:50
Tu 18:15-19:50
We 18:15-19:50
Th 18:15-19:50
Enrollment
0 of 25
Wall Street Prep: Economics, Finance, and Analytics
Visiting students can take this course as part of a Focus Area.
The Wall Street Prep: Economics, Finance, and Analytics Focus Area is designed for students who want to gain a better understanding of finance, business, and the complexities of economic systems. Students enhance their academic experience through specialized co-curricular activities exclusive to the city and earn a Certification of Participation.
Wall Street Prep: Economics, Finance, and Analytics
Visiting students can take this course as part of a Focus Area.
The Wall Street Prep: Economics, Finance, and Analytics Focus Area is designed for students who want to gain a better understanding of finance, business, and the complexities of economic systems. Students enhance their academic experience through specialized co-curricular activities exclusive to the city and earn a Certification of Participation.
Instructor
Modality
In-Person
Day/Time
Mo 18:15-19:50
Tu 18:15-19:50
We 18:15-19:50
Th 18:15-19:50
Enrollment
0 of 25
Wall Street Prep: Economics, Finance, and Analytics
Visiting students can take this course as part of a Focus Area.
The Wall Street Prep: Economics, Finance, and Analytics Focus Area is designed for students who want to gain a better understanding of finance, business, and the complexities of economic systems. Students enhance their academic experience through specialized co-curricular activities exclusive to the city and earn a Certification of Participation.
This course introduces the Bayesian paradigm for statistical inference. Topics covered include prior and posterior distributions: conjugate priors, informative and non-informative priors; one- and two-sample problems; models for normal data, models for binary data, Bayesian linear models; Bayesian computation: MCMC algorithms, the Gibbs sampler; hierarchical models; hypothesis testing, Bayes factors, model selection; use of statistical software.
Prerequisites: A course in the theory of statistical inference, such as STAT GU4204 a course in statistical modeling and data analysis, such as STAT GU4205.
Instructor
Casey Bradshaw
Modality
In-Person
Day/Time
Mo 18:15-19:50
Tu 18:15-19:50
We 18:15-19:50
Th 18:15-19:50
Enrollment
0 of 25