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Growth Initiatives

Vanderbilt in New York City

Vanderbilt has established a campus in New York City—one of the metropolitan and business capitals of the world and home to the largest Vanderbilt community outside Nashville. Vanderbilt’s first campus outside of Nashville will create a pipeline to one of the world’s metropolitan capitals and welcome students in the fall of 2026.

Vanderbilt campus in New York City
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Vanderbilt's New York City Location

Vanderbilt’s Chelsea campus connects education, research and industry across New York by expanding opportunities for students, sparking innovation with partners and deepening our alumni and community ties in a global capital.

Vanderbilt University - New York City Building
Vanderbilt University - New York City Location With Sign
Outside at Vanderbilt's new hub location in New York City.

Faculty Advisory Committee

In 2024, a faculty advisory committee was established to provide input on the academic programming to be offered at this campus. In November 2025, Vanderbilt University received the final approvals necessary to begin offering for-credit academic programming on this campus.

Learn more about academic program offerings on the New York City campus.

This committee, chaired by Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education Tiffiny Tung and co-chaired by Jonathan Metzl, the Frederick B. Rentschler II Professor and professor of sociology and medicine, health and society, consisted of the following members:  

  • Nicole Allen, professor of human and organizational development 
  • Brittany Chase, lecturer in ethnomusicology 
  • Kelly Goldsmith, E. Bronson Ingram Professor and professor of marketing 
  • Major Jackson, Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of English 
  • Yiorgos Kostoulas, professor of the practice of engineering management  
  • Rena Robinson, Dorothy J. Wingfield Phillips Professor and professor of chemistry 
  • Kamal Saggi, Frances and John Downing Family Professor and professor of economics 
  • Phillis Sheppard, the E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Professor and professor of religion, psychology, culture and womanist thought 
Faculty who attended the official announcement of Vanderbilt's long-term lease in New York City.