Vanderbilt University is a private research university in Nashville, Tennessee. For more than a century, excellence, purpose, and collaboration have marked the Vanderbilt experience. It offers more than 70 undergraduate majors over 475 student organizations, an 8:1 student-to-faculty ratio and a full range of graduate and professional degrees across 10 schools and colleges, all on a beautiful campus—an accredited arboretum—complete with Division I athletic facilities and state-of-the-art laboratories. Vanderbilt fosters an innovative living and learning environment for students to explore their passions, engage in academic research with world-renowned faculty, and build lasting connections within a diverse and dynamic student community.