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State Average: B

Columbia University in the City of New York

New York


Last Updated: September 10, 2019

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Student Reviews

  • James Davis

    Columbia University makes extravagant climax but options that it does not actually serve or such options take so long to prepare that they are functionally unavailable. The dining halls routinely mislable options, and the administrators of the dining hall are actively threatening vegan students with the prospect of less options if they ever complain about the number of vegan options on engage in “protest.”

  • Charles Harper

    This spring, Columbia finally added a vegan station in John Jay Dining Hall after some petitioning from students! It’s now pretty easy to eat vegan on campus.

  • Josh Pilchik

    Columbia has a multiplicity of dining options and when it comes to vegan food it soars completely. Especially John Jay dining hall, the vegan options are plenty and delicious!

  • Sarah Kavanagh

    There are a few vegan foods in all in the cafeteria. There is one vegan lunch entree, and for breakfast, you can have cereal and soymilk or oatmeal. Some side dishes are vegan. The food isn’t the best, but even my non-vegan friends think the cafeteria sucks. More vegan options are definitely needed though!

  • Labels vegan entrées

  • Offers at least one vegan entrée at every meal

  • Offers nondairy milk

  • Labels vegan desserts

  • Includes a vegan member on its student advisory board

  • Promotes vegan options

  • Participates in Meatless Mondays

  • Offers an all-vegan station

  • Has an all-vegan dining facility

  • Offers egg/mayo replacements

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We've been closely monitoring the status of colleges and universities across the United States over the last several months as many of them have moved to remote learning because of COVID-19.

This means that numerous schools have scaled back their dining programs or halted them entirely. For this reason, the PETA Vegan Report Card's annual update has been delayed.