[[Category: |Universities]] <span style="background-color: rgb(148, 176, 243);">OVERVIEW<br/span>[[Category: Vanderbilt University is a private research university in Nashville, Tennessee. Founded in 1873, it was named in honor of New York shipping and rail magnate Cornelius Vanderbilt, who provided the school its initial $1-million endowment despite having never been to the South. Vanderbilt University's ranking in the 2020 edition of Best Colleges is National Universities]], #15.