unitid 221999 · Nashville, TN · private nonprofit 4-year · city (large)
Vanderbilt University
Private university in Nashville, Tennessee, US
- founded
- 1873
- enrollment 2023
- 14,693
- predominant degree
- Bachelor's
- website
- vanderbilt.edu/
Vanderbilt University is a private research university in Nashville, Tennessee, United States. Founded in 1873, it was named in honor of shipping and railroad magnate Cornelius Vanderbilt, who provided the school with its initial $1 million endowment in the hopes that his gift, and the greater work of the university, would help to heal the sectional wounds inflicted by the American Civil War. Vanderbilt is a founding member of the Southeastern Conference and has been the conference's only private school since 1966. wikipedia rev 1359913147 ↗
scorecard 2026-06 · percentiles within private nonprofit 4-years
The record
admission rate
6%
2nd pctl among private nonprofit 4-years
undergraduates
7,208
96th pctl among private nonprofit 4-years
Pell share
20%
undergrads on Pell grants
20th pctl among private nonprofit 4-years
completion
94%
finish within 150% time
96th pctl among private nonprofit 4-years
sticker cost / yr
$89,590
100th pctl among private nonprofit 4-years
avg net price / yr
$15,846
after aid, aided students
22nd pctl among private nonprofit 4-years
median earnings, 10 yr
$91,565
after entry, Title IV students
96th pctl among private nonprofit 4-years
median grad debt
$14,000
8th pctl among private nonprofit 4-years
what families actually pay
Cost
Sticker price is a fiction for most families — net price is what aided students pay after grants, by family income.
Average net price by family income, 2023–24 aid cohort
Families earning under $30k paid $3,414 per year after aid.
Dashed hollow marks are privacy-suppressed brackets — not zero. Band: middle half of private nonprofit 4-years (all incomes).
Who enrolls, by family income
family income mix not reported
- Median family income
- $58,118
- First-generation students
- 12%
- In-state tuition & fees
- $67,498
earnings · debt · programs
Outcomes
Median earnings after entry, working grads with federal aid
Ten years out, the median graduate earns 6.5× the median graduate debt.
Earnings cover federally aided (Title IV) students only.
What programs pay — top fields of study
| program | grads | earn 5 yr | debt |
|---|---|---|---|
| Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing. | 363 | $122,896 | — |
| Social Sciences, General. | 302 | $90,203 | $11,000 |
| Economics. | 286 | $128,449 | $12,424 |
| Multi/Interdisciplinary Studies, Other. | 263 | $73,586 | $12,000 |
| Law. | 200 | $172,684 | — |
| Computer Science. | 198 | — | $14,500 |
| Mathematics. | 157 | $140,068 | $10,000 |
| Business Administration, Management and Operations. | 155 | $176,932 | — |
| Applied Mathematics. | 146 | — | — |
| Business Administration, Management and Operations. | 139 | — | — |
| Political Science and Government. | 130 | $92,330 | $12,000 |
| Management Sciences and Quantitative Methods. | 126 | — | — |
— is privacy suppression at small programs, never zero. Earnings are median, 5 years after completing.
annual scorecard files, 1996–2026
Trajectory
Line breaks are years where the measure wasn't collected — a gap is not a zero.
Admission rate
Price per year
- sticker
- net
Median earnings, 10 yrs after entry
Undergraduates
wikidata · 3,513 people recorded
Memory
Wikidata is not an alumni census: a person appears only when volunteer editors record them. Counts measure the archive's memory - access x achievement x documentation - never placement rates or institutional quality.
Field fingerprint — share of recorded alumni by field
Women among recorded alumni, by birth decade
People without a recorded gender are excluded; decades with fewer than 5 recorded alumni are dropped.
Wikipedia attention
monthly article views since 2015
most recorded occupationsresearcher (1,106) · basketball player (491) · university teacher (284) · American football player (178) · politician (152) · lawyer (126) · writer (89) · mathematician (59)
Nobel laureates who studied here
- Stanford Moore Chemistry 1972
- Muhammad Yunus Peace 2006
- Al Gore Peace 2007
- John Michael Jumper Chemistry 2024
The portrait wall
Sized by nothing, ordered by Wikipedia footprint (language editions).
Al Gore
133 wikis · Public domain
Muhammad Yunus
121 wikis · CC BY 2.0
Yun Ch'iho
82 wikis · Public domain
John Nance Garner
63 wikis · Public domain
Edward Emerson Barnard
57 wikis · Public domain
Greg Abbott
52 wikis · CC BY-SA 3.0
James Patterson
51 wikis · CC0
Robert Penn Warren
48 wikis · Public domain
Fred Thompson
47 wikis · Public domain
John Michael Jumper
43 wikis · CC BY-SA 4.0
Dinah Shore
41 wikis · Public domain
Bettie Page
40 wikis · Public domain
Amy Grant
37 wikis · CC BY-SA 3.0
Delbert Mann
36 wikis · CC BY-SA 4.0
Also recorded: Stanford Moore.
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Provenance
- U.S. Dept. of Education College Scorecard, 2026-06 release. Earnings cover federally aided (Title IV) students only. Suppressed values are null, never imputed.
- Annual Scorecard files 1996-2026. A null in early years usually means the measure was not yet collected, not zero.
- Coordinates and locale describe the campus address, not where students live.
- Wikidata is not an alumni census: a person appears only when volunteer editors record them. Counts measure the archive's memory - access x achievement x documentation - never placement rates or institutional quality.
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- Lead text from Wikipedia (revision 1359913147), CC BY-SA 4.0.