Vanderbilt University is one of the major academic institutions in the southern U.S. Its 12,000 students enjoy such a beautiful campus populated by more than 300 tree and shrub varieties that it has been named a “national arboretum.”
The school has an impressive 8:1 student-to-faculty ratio, is a member of the Association of American Universities, and has produced six Nobel Prize Laureates.
Vanderbilt has a $5.3 billion endowment and a yearly operating budget of $4 billion, which is why the university can spend such substantial resources on its projects. In 2013, it invested $573.1 into research, while its hospital spent $843.6 million.
Vanderbilt advances science through many first-class institutes such as the Center for Medicine Health and Society, the Treatment and Research Institute for Autism Spectrum Disorders, and the Institute for Space and Defense Electronics.
In addition to these first-rate resources, scholars here enjoy a research library with more than 4.4 million volumes.
