---
title: targetColumn
framework: createml
role: symbol
role_heading: Instance Property
path: createml/mlclassifier/targetcolumn
---

# targetColumn

The name of the column you selected at initialization to define which categories the classifier predicts.

## Declaration

```swift
var targetColumn: String { get }
```

## See Also

### Creating and training a classifier

- [init(trainingData:targetColumn:featureColumns:)](createml/mlclassifier/init(trainingdata:targetcolumn:featurecolumns:).md)
- [featureColumns](createml/mlclassifier/featurecolumns.md)