Welcome to the Columbia in Paris Program, located at Historic Reid Hall in the heart of Montparnasse. We offer summer, semester, and year-long study abroad opportunities in France with a wide selection of curricular and public programming in partnership with the Columbia Global Paris Center and the Institute for Ideas and Imagination.
Paris Student Experience
Student Testimonials
Mackenzi Stevenson is an Operations Research major with Columbia Engineering (class of 2024). She participated in the Columbia in Paris English program in Fall 2023, taking classes at Reid Hall on “City Diplomacy” and “Elites, Privilege, and Inequalities,” alongside French and International Relations courses at SciencesPo.
Thomas Ogg is a philosophy major at the Columbia School of General Studies, originally from Long Beach, California. He studied Art Hum and Music Hum (AHMH) at Reid Hall in Summer 2023.
Jennifer Harley is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Art History and Archaeology at Columbia GSAS. In Summer 2023, she studied at Reid Hall, taking courses as part of the English track, including “Blackness in French: From Harlem to Paris and Beyond” and “Waves on Different Shores: Film in France, Japan, Brazil.” Additionally, she enrolled in French language courses at the Alliance Française.