Vanderbilt University is a top private research university of about 6,500 undergraduates and 5,300 graduate and professional students. It is home to Peabody College, currently ranked the #1 Graduate School of Education according to US News and World Report.The university comprises 10 schools, a distinguished medical center, a public policy center and The Freedom Forum First Amendment Center....
Barnard Hall and Vanderbilt Hall are duplex dorms
History:Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt was in his 79th year when he decided to make the gift that founded Vanderbilt University in the spring of 1873. The $1 million that he gave to endow and build the university was the commodore's only major philanthropy. Methodist Bishop Holland N. McTyeire of Nashville, a cousin of the commodore's young second wife, went to New York for medical treatment...