In the Summer Session the University offers courses giving both general and professional training which may be taken either with or without regard to an academic degree or diploma.
Through its system of Extension Teaching the University offers many courses of study to persons unable otherwise to receive academic training.
The Institute of Arts and Sciences provides lectures, concerts, readings and recitals—approximately two hundred and fifty in number—in a single season.
The price of the University Catalogue is twenty-five cents postpaid. Detailed information regarding the work in any department will be furnished without charge upon application to the Secretary of Columbia University, New York, N. Y.