University is one of the top 20 private comprehensive universities in the United States, founded in 1873. In the past 135 years, Vanderbilt University has grown from a private school that once accepted the children of the rich and big landlords in the southern United States to a well-known institution with strong financial resources and famous research.

According to US News and World Report 20 10, Vanderbilt University ranks 17 in the United States, second only to Duke University in the southern United States.

Popular undergraduate majors: economics, engineering, foreign languages and literature, interdisciplinary research, psychology, biology and English. American News and World Report ranks 29th in the graduate school of English major.