Vanderbilt University

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The Vanderbilt University is a private, non-denominational university in Nashville, Tennessee. The university is a member of the Association of American Universities, an existing association of leading research-intensive since 1900, North American universities.

It is famous for its scale as Botanical Gardens campus.

History

Cornelius Vanderbilt, one of the most successful and wealthiest entrepreneurs of his time, introduced in 1873, one million U.S. dollars available ( according to the current value of about 20.88 million U.S. dollars) to establish a university in Nashville. The university should be a response to the cultural decay of the southern states after the Civil War and they should serve the preservation of the cultural and spiritual heritage of the South. Therefore, they wanted to be understood as a " Harvard of the South". The rival political undertones of this comparison play today, of course no longer matters.

Study conditions

Colleges & Schools

The University offers the typical U.S. higher education as well as a variety of degree programs beyond the Bachelors. It consists of 10 colleges and schools:

  • Engineering - School of Engineering
  • Arts and Sciences - College of Arts and Science
  • Medicine - School of Medicine
  • Music - Blair School of Music
  • Education and Human Development - Peabody College of Education and Human Development
  • Care - School of Nursing
  • Law - Law School
  • Theology - Divinity School
  • Economics - Owen Graduate School of Management
  • Graduate School - Graduate School

U.S. rankings

The Vanderbilt University is one of the best universities in the United States. In U.S. customary university rankings Vanderbilt was U.S. News & World Report 2008 in the USA on 18th place at the World University Rankings 2013-2014 by Thomson Reuters Vanderbilt was ranked 88th

In the selection of students, the University is selective. Tuition fees are about $ 35,000 annually. Vanderbilt is thus both academically as well as in financial terms, an elite university.

Academic Cooperation

As part of the academic collaboration with the University of Regensburg annually receive six German students the opportunity to study at the College of Arts & Science from Vanderbilt University. Conversely, from the American side, each year an average of 15 students sent to Regensburg. Also works in cooperation with the EBS University of Economics and Law in Oestrich angle.

Sports

The sports teams at Vanderbilt University are the Commodores. The university is a member of the Southeastern Conference ( Eastern Division ).

Famous people

  • Lamar Alexander, Governor of Tennessee and U.S. Senator
  • David Brinkley, Journalist
  • Derrick Byars, a professional basketball player
  • Stanley Cohen, a neurologist
  • Max Delbrück, biophysicists
  • Al Gore, 45th Vice President of the United States, winner of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize
  • Tipper Gore, former "Second Lady" of the United States
  • Shan Foster professional basketball player
  • Amy Grant, singer and songwriter
  • Heyo K. Kroemer, pharmacologist, Dean in Greifswald
  • James Clark McReynolds, United States Supreme Court Justice
  • Stanford Moore, a biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1972
  • James Patterson, author of crime novels
  • Baby Ray, American football player
  • Süreyya Serdengeçti, head of the Turkish Central Bank
  • Dinah Shore, singer
  • Molly Sims, model and actress
  • Earl Wilbur Sutherland, physiologist
  • Robert Penn Warren, poet
  • Muhammad Yunus, economist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize 2006
  • Jay Cutler, quarterback for the Chicago Bears in the NFL

Four former members of the faculty, Stanley Cohen, Earl Wilbur Sutherland, Paul Greengard, and Max Delbrück, and three alumni, Al Gore, Muhammad Yunus and Stanford Moore, who received the Nobel Prize.

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