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Vanderbilt University Student Profile

Enrollment

  • Undergraduate: 6,532
  • Graduate and professional: 5,315
  • TOTAL: 11,847
  • Full-time: 11,107
  • Part-time:740
  • Men: 5,581 47%
  • Women: 6,266 53%

Percentage of undergraduates who live on campus: 84%
Percentage of undergraduates receiving some sort of financial aid: 60%

Undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio: 9:1

Undergraduate tuition: $34,414


New Freshmen

  • Number of new freshmen: 1,673
  • SAT I-verbal mid 50% range: 640-730
  • SAT I-math mid 50% range: 660-740
  • ACT mid 50% range: 29-32
  • Number of applicants: 12,911

Degrees Conferred 2007

  • Baccalaureate: 1,468
  • Master's: 1,062
  • M.D.: 114
  • Other doctoral: 498
  • Total degrees conferred: 3,142 No honorary degrees are conferred

Enrollment by School

    • College of Arts and Science: 3,843
    • Blair School of Music: 197
    • School of Engineering: 1,305
    • School of Nursing: 618
    • Peabody College: 1,650
    • Divinity School: 230
    • Graduate School: 2,121
    • Law School: 628
    • Medical School: 624
    • Owen Graduate School of Management: 519
    • Division of Unclassified Studies: 25

Regional Breakdown

  • New England 4%
  • Midwest 14%
  • South 45%
  • Middle States 13%
  • West 7%
  • Southwest 8%
  • U.S. Territories >.1%
  • International 8%
  • Unspecified >.1%

 

 

ACCREDITATION AND RANKINGS
The university is accredited by the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools to award bachelor's, master's, education specialist's and doctor's degrees. Contact the Commission on Colleges at 1866 Southern Lane, Decatur, Georgia 30033-4097 or call 404-679-4500 for questions about the accreditation of Vanderbilt University.
Vanderbilt is a member of the Association of American Universities.
Rankings
The Times of London

  • 53rd -- Best Universities in the World
  • 26th -- Best in North America

National Research Council survey of graduate programs
Pharmacology Ph.D. program

  • 6th -- Faculty quality
  • 3rd -- Program effectiveness

Religion Ph.D. program

  • 7th -- Faculty quality
  • 8th -- Program effectiveness

Business Week

  • 30th -- Graduate Business Schools (Owen Graduate School of Management)
  • 24th -- Executive MBA Programs (Owen Graduate School of Management)

U.S. News & World Report

  • 19th -- National Universities
  • 14th -- Best Value
  • 18th -- Research-oriented Medical Schools
  • 3rd -- Graduate Schools of Education (Peabody College)
  • 34th -- Graduate Business Schools (Owen Graduate School of Management)
  • 16th -- Law Schools
  • 19th -- Graduate Schools of Nursing
  • 42nd -- Graduate Engineering Schools
  • 43rd -- Undergraduate Engineering Schools

Kaplan/Newsweek

  • One of 25 new "Ivies"

Thompson’s ISI

  • 1st -- Most cited program in pharmacology
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