Columbia College is one of the prominent undergraduate colleges at _Columbia University, situated on the university's main campus of Morningside Heights in the Borough of Manhattan in the City of New York. It was founded in 1754 by the Church of England as King's College, receiving a Royal Charter from King George II of Great Britain. Columbia College is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York and the fifth oldest in the United States. The college is highly selective in its admissions. For the class of 2011 it admitted 9.1% of applicants, the lowest acceptance rate in the Ivy League that year.http://ivysuccess.com/columbia_2011.html