Who We Are

For more than a century, Vanderbilt Magazine has told the stories of Vanderbilt University’s vast community and, in so doing, has kept it connected. That connection is stronger than ever through today’s Vanderbilt Magazine, an award-winning source of news and opinion that reaches nearly 100,000 households nationwide three times each year.

Combining journalistic excellence with wide-ranging topics of interest, Vanderbilt Magazine is fresh, bold, engaging, insightful–and often inspiring. From ground-breaking research discoveries to profiles about alumni who are making real contributions to positive social change, the magazine links readers to Vanderbilt in a way no other publication does. Our readers are highly educated, affluent, family-oriented professionals–some of the most influential in the nation and region–who care about the world and their place in it.

Vanderbilt Magazine readers are physicians, attorneys, CEOs, teachers, researchers, nurses and psychologists. They are civic leaders, community activists and philanthropists. Their stories are our stories–and those stories are being heard. An independently conducted survey found that our readers are loyal to Vanderbilt and to their magazine. Eighty percent of Vanderbilt Magazine’s recipients faithfully read it, and 84 percent say it’s a magazine they would be proud to share with others. Overall, 94 percent of the magazine’s recipients rate it as good or excellent.

Vanderbilt Magazine’s Mission Statement

Vanderbilt Magazine examines the people, scholarship, research and values that make up the Vanderbilt community and the role of that community nationally and internationally. Each issue of Vanderbilt Magazine attempts to entertain, inform and surprise readers through diverse editorial content and lively graphics. The magazine focuses on a variety of academic, social, political, cultural, scientific and artistic issues through the lens of Vanderbilt’s faculty, students, alumni, programs, research and scholarship.