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About Vanderbilt University
Vanderbilt University is a private research university located in Nashville, which is the capital of Tennessee State, USA, and the county seat of Davidson County, a major hub for music, health care, banking, publishing, and transportation industries. Its population was estimated at a number of more than 600 000 inhabitants, fact which makes it the 2nd most populated city in the state, after Memphis, the entire 13-county Nashville Metropolitan Statistical Area, having over 1 500 000 people, living within its limits, making it the largest metropolitan area in the state.
Vanderbilt University was officially founded in 1873, being named after shipping and rail magnate "Commodore" Cornelius Vanderbilt, who provided $1 million for the founding of the institution, which is today recognized as one of the best universities in the country. Vanderbilt is academically organized into four undergraduate and six graduate schools, through which it offers its students, who number approximately 12 000, numerous educational programs, in various fields of study, Vaderbilt's education, law, medicine, and nursing programs being ranked among the top 20 in the country, by U.S. News & World Report, which also placed the university 17th among national universities.
Vanderbilt has been highly ranked by numerous other significant publications, besides U.S. News & World Report, over the years, for many of its quality educational programs offered, including by the Academic Ranking of World Universities, which listed it 41st in the world in its 2009 ranking. The Owen Graduate School of Management has been ranked by The Wall Street Journal second among "smaller" business schools in 2004, while, in 2008, BusinessWeek ranked it 30th. Vanderbilt has also been named by Fortune magazine one of the top 100 places to work in the United States, being the single university on their list.
Athletics
The atheltic teams from Vanderbilt University are known as the Vanderbilt Commodores, who compete in six men's and nine women's sports in NCAA Divison I, in the Southeastern Conference and American Lacrosse Conference, Vanderbilt being the smallest school in the Southeastern Conference, having fewer than 6600 undergraduates. Tennis and basketball, for both men's and women's, are traditionally Vanderbilt's strongest sports. The Commoderes' distinctive colors are black and gold.
Notable Alumni
Among the most resonant names, on the list of notable alumni, there are: Robert Penn Warren - Pulitzer Prize winner, United States Poet Laureate, John D. Arnold - founder of Centaurus Energy, David Farr - Chairman and CEO of Emerson Electric, Allan Hubbard - Director of the National Economic Council, Ann S. Moore - Chairman/CEO of Time, Inc., Doug Parker - Chairman, President, and CEO of US Airways, Richard Kyanka - creator of humor website Something Awful, K. Terry Dornbush - former Ambassador to the Netherlands, Michael L. Gernhardt - NASA astronaut and Stanford Moore - protein chemist, inventor of a method for sequencing proteins, winner of the 1972 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, among many others.
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