Resources and Documents
for columbia students
On this page you’ll find MEI documents and forms, research resources, and general digital resources for students at Columbia University.
MEI Documents and Forms
Columbia-Aga Khan Student Handbook 2023-2024
Columbia Digital Resources
SSOL: Student Services Online is the University's web-based, multi-purpose tool for accepted students. Use SSOL to: check your registration appointment times, register for your courses, view your bill, update your address, and check for holds that may be blocking your registration.
Columbia University Academic Calendar and GSAS Academic Calendar: Showing Registration Dates, Holidays, and other important academic dates by term.
Columbia Email: All Columbia University Morningside students, faculty and staff have LionMail through Gmail, including access to unlimited mail and Drive storage.
Courseworks: Columbia University's Learning Management System (LMS) to access online course information including tools to: View and download content posted by instructors, Participate in online discussions, tests and quizzes, Submit assignments and participate in group work, View grades and submit online evaluations
Columbia Bulletin: This directory of courses can be used to search for course options, and to check for last-minute changes.
Vergil: An additional course planner for all courses offered by the University. This can be used to prepare your schedule and push classes to SSOP for registration.
Citrix: The Citrix portal provides students access to applications on-demand and remote access to data, software, and printers on the Columbia network from over the web. Each user must have the Citrix receiver installed on their Windows or Mac laptop.
GSAS Policy Handbook: University, GSAS and/or departmental rules and policies
Columbia Software Downloads: Software available to the Columbia University community, for free or at Columbia's negotiated rate.
Columbia Events: Explore a wide range of academic, cultural, and athletic events happening every day at Columbia. Except as noted, all events are open to the public, and most are free.
Digital Scholarship: The Columbia University Libraries are dedicated to the development of programs, services, spaces, and modes of engagement around technology in scholarship and research across its campuses.
CLIO: Allows you to search Columbia's catalog of over 7 million items for: books, journals and newspaper titles, audio and video recordings, scores, archival collections, databases, government documents, maps and atlases.
If you need assistance with research on Islamic Studies or the Middle East, please reach out to the Middle East and Islamic Studies Librarian: Peter Magierski (mideast@libraries.cul.columbia.edu)