Vanderbilt University

Introduction

Vanderbilt University, located in Nashville, Tennessee, is a private research university founded in 1873, named after railroad and shipping magnate Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt, one of the South's most prestigious institutions of higher learning and a member of the Southeastern Conference. The 330-acre campus is hailed as the most beautiful in the South, filled with century-old oak trees, Georgian red-brick buildings, and spring-blooming cherry and dogwood, one of Nashville's most romantic walking spots. The campus core includes Peabody College and Alumni Memorial Hall, with the Bishop Joseph Johnson Black Cultural Center and First Amendment Center reflecting the university's diversity and intellectual tradition. Vanderbilt is renowned in education, medicine, law, and business, and its campus adjacent to Music City allows academic and Nashville music culture to blend. Whether walking the campus, visiting art exhibits, or watching an SEC football game, Vanderbilt offers the elegance and vitality of a Southern university.

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