Resources: Since 1983, Vanderbilt has invested close to a billion dollars in renovating and building campus facilities. In the process, it added state-of-the-art buildings for psychology, chemistry and music, just to name a few. Recent additions include:

• The Biological Sciences/ Medical Research Building III
• A pedestrian bridge that spans 21st Avenue, connecting the Peabody campus and Vanderbilt's central campus near the Heard (Main) Library
• The Schulman Center for Jewish Life
• A 564,000-square-foot free-standing Children's Hospital

The University comprises 10 schools, a public policy institute, a distinguished medical center and The Freedom Forum First Amendment Center. Vanderbilt offers undergraduate programs in the liberal arts and sciences, engineering, music, and education and human development, as well as a full range of graduate and professional degrees.

Above, Vanderbilt Engineering students compete in the annual Egg Drop event, in which they design containers to protect eggs from a fall.

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"Today I am going to give you two examinations, one in trigonometry and one in honesty. I hope you will pass them both, but if you must fail one, let it be trigonometry, for there are many good [people] in this world today who cannot pass an examination in trigonometry, but there are no good [people] in the world who cannot pass an examination in honesty."

- Madison Sarratt (1891-1978), dean, Vanderbilt University

Vanderbilt's social and recreational resources are designed to be student friendly. The Sarratt Student Center offers quiet spaces for study, a game room, an art gallery, and photography and art studios.