Vanderbilt University
private university in Nashville, Tennessee, US
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Vanderbilt University is a private university[1]. It ranks in the top 3% of private university entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (11,578 views/month).[2]
Key Facts
- Member of: Association of Research Libraries[3], Southeastern Conference[4], Orbital Reef University Advisory Council[5], IIIF Consortium[6], ORCID, Inc.[7], Association of American Universities[8], American Council on Education[9], National Humanities Alliance[10], Higher Education Leadership Initiative for Open Scholarship[11], Coalition for Networked Information[12], Center for Research Libraries[13], Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition[14], Coalition of Urban and Metropolitan Universities[15], Council on Governmental Relations[16]
- Country: United States[17]
- Instance of: private not-for-profit educational institution[18], open-access publisher[19]
- Founder: Holland Nimmons McTyeire[20]
- Named after: Cornelius Vanderbilt[21]
- Headquarters location: Nashville[22]
- Child organization or unit: Peabody College[23], Center for Medicine, Health and Society, Vanderbilt University[24], Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities, Vanderbilt University[25], Vanderbilt University School of Medicine[26], Blair School of Music[27], Vanderbilt University Law School[28], Jean and Alexander Heard Libraries[29], Vanderbilt University School of Nursing[30], Vanderbilt University School of Engineering[31], Vanderbilt University Divinity School[32], Vanderbilt University College of Arts and Science[33], Vanderbilt University Graduate School[34], Institute for Space and Defense Electronics[35]
- Commons category: Vanderbilt University[36]
- Industry: higher education[37]
- Inception: 1873[38]
- Coordinate location: 36.1475, -86.8025[39]
- Official website: https://www.vanderbilt.edu/[40]
- Topic's main category: Category:Vanderbilt University[41]
- Employees: 3358[42]
- Described by source: The American Cyclopædia[43], The New Student's Reference Work[44], The Encyclopedia Americana[45]
- Ranking: 66[46], 62[47], 65[48], 64[49], 55[50], 50[51], 52[52], 60[53], 53[54], 54[55], 49[56], 42[57], 32[58]
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Brands and Namesakes
Things named for Vanderbilt University include FirstBank Stadium[59], a stadium[60], in United States[61], founded in 1981[62] and Vanderbilt Prize in Biomedical Science[63], an award[64].
Why It Matters
Vanderbilt University has Wikipedia articles in 23 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[65] It is known by 51 alternative names across languages and contexts.[66]
Entities named for it include FirstBank Stadium[59], a stadium[60], in United States[61], founded in 1981[62] and Vanderbilt Prize in Biomedical Science[63], an award[64].