Nashville, TN 37240
General Information
Type: Private institution
Year Founded: 1873
Religious Affilation: None
Academic Calendar: Semester
Size of Undergraduate Student Body: 6,400
Geographical Setting: Urban
Endowment: $2,598,227,000
Admissions
Application Fee: $50
Application Deadline: January 3
Selectivity: Most selective
Expenses
Tuition and Fees: $33,440
Room/Board: $10,890
Student Services
Basic Services Offered: nonremedial tutoring, women’s center, placement service, day care, health service, health insurance
Remedial Services Offered: writing, study skills
Counseling Services Offered: minority student, career, military, personal, veteran student, academic, older student, psychological, birth control, religious
Careers
Career Services Offered: co-op education, on-campus job interviews, internships, resume assistance, career/job search classes, alumni network, interest inventory, interview training
Students That Enter the Job Market…
Within 6 Months of Graduation: N/A
Within 1 Year of Graduation: N/A
Within 2 Years of Graduation: N/A
Firms that Hire Most Graduates: Teach for America, Corporate Executive Board, Vanderbilt, CGI-AMS, Deloitte Consulting, Bank of america, Boeing, Merrill Lynch, Wachovia Securities, Humana
Library
Does the school have a library on campus? – Yes
Is it a member of a library consortia? – Yes
Number of books, serial backfiles, and other material including government documents: 3,056,707
Number of current serial subscriptions: 33,883
Number of microforms: 3,022,373
Number of audiovisuals: 266,213
Number of ebooks: 198,707
Other library facilities: Biomedical | Divinity | Law | Management | Music | Peabody Education| Science & Engineering |Special Collections provides access to primary resources to over 2,000 patrons yearly. It is administered and maintained by eight full-time staff members. Special Collections houses one of the finest twentieth-century Southern literature collections in the United States and is the center for the study of the Fugitive and Agrarian groups. Other collections include Southern history since the Civil War, Southern Culture, Women’s Issues, Civil Rights, Religion, and the Performing Arts. / The Television News Archive collection at Vanderbilt University is the world’s most extensive and complete archive of television news. The collection holds more than 30,000 individual network evening news broadcasts from the major U.S. national broadcast networks: ABC, CBS, NBC, and CNN, and more than 9,000 hours of special news-related programming including ABC’s Nightline since 1989.
Museums or other Special Academic Buildings on Campus: The Arthur J. Dyer Observatory is the principal astronomical facility of Vanderbilt University. It is located about ten miles south of the center of Nashville near Brentwood, Tennessee at an elevation of 1,131 feet above sea level on a sixteen-acre wooded hilltop. Its precise geographical position as determined by the U.S. Geological Survey, is 36 degrees 03’08.50″ north latitude and 5h 47m 13.27s west of Greenwich.The Arthur J. Dyer Observatory is the principal astronomical facility of Vanderbilt University. It is located at an elevation of 1,131 feet above sea level on a sixteen-acre wooded hilltop. Its precise geographical position as determined by the U.S. Geological Survey, is 36 degrees 03’08.50″ north latitude and 5h 47m 13.27s west of Greenwich.
Technology
Is a computer course required? – No
Is a computer required? – No
Number of available computers for all students: 500
Available internet access? – Yes
Available email accounts? – Yes
Computers available in: computer center/labs, residence halls, library, student center
Number of available wired connections available in…
The Library (not including computer labs): 50
Classrooms: 370
Labs: 140
Other areas: 300
Is there a wireless network? – Yes
Where is wireless available? – in all the libraries, in some classrooms, in computer labs, in administrative/faculty offices and work areas, in some of the college-owned, operated, or affiliated housing
Wireless simultaneous connection capacity: 10,000
Recommended operating system: N/A
Percentage of hosting units owned by college for internet access: 100%
Are students permitted to have webpages? – Yes
Is there online registration? – Yes
Safety
Campus Safety Services Offered: 24-hour foot and vehicle patrols, late night transport/escort service, 24-hour emergency telephones, lighted pathways/sidewalks, student patrols, controlled dormitory access (key, security card, etc)
Campus Life Overview
Percentage of undergrads that live in college-owned housing: 83%
Percentage of Male Undergrads Living in Fraternities: 34%
Percentage of Female Undergrads Living in Sororities: 50%
Percentage of students on campus on weekends: 90%
College Housing
Does the school offer students housing? – Yes
Percentage of students living in college-owned housing: 83%
Housing available for all unmarried students? – No
If on-campus housing is unavailable, does school provide assistance? – Yes
Available types of campus housing: coed dorms, women’s dorms, men’s dorms, apartments for married students, apartment for single students, special housing for disabled students, special housing for international students
Percentage of college-owned housing units that are…
Singles: 51%
Doubles: 34%
Triples or Suites: 5%
Apartments: 10%
Other: 0%
Number of college-owned housing buildings: 29
Percentage of college-owned housing units that have…
A sprinkler system: 100%
Fire alarms: 100%
Wired high-speed internet access: 100%
Campus Size: 333 acres
Transportation (distances in miles)
Nearest airport(s): Nashville (10)
Nearest train station: N/A
Nearest bus station: Nashville (2)
Does public transportation serve campus? – Yes
Are all students allowed to have cars on campus? – No
Percentage of students with cars on campus: N/A
Student Employment
Is there school employment? – Yes
Percent of undergraduates that worked on campus in 2005-2006: – 23%
Average undergraduate wage: 2,700
Are freshmen discouraged from working their first term? – No
Reserve Officers Training Corps (ROTC)
Army ROTC: Offered on campus
Navy ROTC Offered on campus
Air Force ROTC: Offered at cooperating institution (University of Tennessee)
Rules and Regulations
Is legal alcohol permitted on campus? – Yes
Other policies: class attendance policies set by individual instructors, honor code, hazing prohibited
Campus
Most popular events: N/A