Points of Pride

• Vanderbilt University has been a world leader in nursing education and producing top nursing executives in the healthcare field.


• Vanderbilt University is leading research university named the 8th largest research university in the 2007 Faculty Scholarly Productivity Index, ranked within the top 20 in America’s Best Colleges by U.S. News and World Report and included in the top 30 of America’s Best Graduate Schools for nursing programs offering master’s degrees.


• Our outstanding faculty and alumni are leaders at the forefront of the medical profession. Our graduates are Nobel Prize winners, Field Medal recipients and pioneers in several medical procedures such as world’s first implantation of the automatic implantable defibrillator and heart transplant surgery.


• Vanderbilt is a leader in the field of research and innovation, being among the top 25 recipients of federal research dollars and associated with several research institutes, such as Freedom Forum First Amendment Center.

• Ranked 1st for most cited program in pharmacology, Thompson’s ISI, 2008


• Ranked 18th, tied with the University of Notre Dame and Emory University, in its ranking of national universities, U.S. News and World Report, 2009


• Ranked 19th Graduate Business Schools – Owen Graduate School of Management, Wall Street Journal, 2008


• Ranked 24th for Executive MBA Programs and 30th for Graduate Business Schools (Owen Graduate School of Management), Business Week, 2008


• Ranked 26th in North America and 53rd worldwide in The Times Higher Education Supplement, 2006


• Ranked 34th Top 100 North and Latin American Universities and 42nd Top 500 World University by Shanghai Jiao Tong University in China, 2008


• Additional U.S. News and World Report, 2009 edition rankings include:


• 2nd for Graduate Schools of Education - Peabody College
• 14th for Best Value (undergraduate)
• 15th for Law Schools
• 15th for Vanderbilt Medical Center
• 16th for Research-oriented Medical Schools
• 18th for National Universities (undergraduate)
• 19th for Graduate Schools of Nursing
• 42nd for Graduate Engineering Schools
• 43rd for Undergraduate Engineering Schools
• 44th for Graduate Business Schools - Owen Graduate School of Management
• 49th for Primary Care Medical Schools