A Decade of Progress
Chancellor Nicholas S. Zeppos

144% growth in student applications

$296 million in gifts for Opportunity Vanderbilt benefiting 9,000 students

45% of entering first-year class in 2017 are minorities, up from 22%

Top 10 innovative universities in the world (Thompson Reuters)

Rose to No. 8 from No. 10 in NIH funding

Rose to No. 14 from No. 18 in U.S. News & World Report ranking

$300 million new investment for graduate education and research

No. 1 for happiest students (Princeton Review)

No. 2 for great financial aid (Princeton Review)

71% drop in the total dollar amount of need-based loans for undergraduate students

15% of freshmen students have Pell grants, up from 8%

Number of endowed chairs doubled, from 200 to 400

Stewarted VU through 2008 financial crisis

Restructured VU and VUMC to put university on strongest financial footing ever

More than $1 billion of new investments to the endowment

Nicholas S. Zeppos was named Vanderbilt University's 8th chancellor March 1, 2008

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