by our College Data Analytics Team
College Factual recognizes the best colleges and universities in its annual rankings. These rankings include categories for best overall colleges, best colleges for each major, best value schools, and much more.
Vanderbilt University was awarded 132 badges in the 2025 rankings. The highest ranked major at the school is social sciences.
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College Factual ranked Vanderbilt as #18 out of 2,152 colleges and universities in the country on its 2025 Best Colleges list. This puts it in the top 1% of all schools in the nation! This is an improvement over the previous year, when Vanderbilt held the #19 spot on the Best Overall Colleges list.
Vanderbilt is also ranked #1 out of 41 schools in Tennessee.
With an acceptance rate of 7%, Vanderbilt is one of the most selective schools in the country. Good grades and high test scores alone may not be enough to get you into the school, so do your best to submit a stellar application.
About 29% of students accepted to Vanderbilt submitted their SAT scores. When looking at the 25th through the 75th percentile, SAT Evidence-Based Reading and Writing scores ranged between 730 and 770. Math scores were between 760 and 800.
The student to faculty ratio at Vanderbilt is an impressive 7 to 1. That's quite good when you compare it to the national average of 15 to 1. This is a good sign that students at the school will have more opportunities for one-on-one interactions with their professors.
In addition to the student to faculty ratio, some people look at what percentage of faculty members are full-time as a sign of how much time professors will be able to spend with their students. This is because part-time teachers may not be be on campus as much as their full-time counterparts.
The full-time faculty percentage at Vanderbilt University is 82%. This is higher than the national average of 47%.
Vanderbilt University has a freshmen retention rate of 96%. That's a good sign that full-time students like the school and their professors enough to want to stick around for another year. It's also a sign that the admissions team did a good job in choosing applicants who were a good fit for the school.
Students are considered to have graduated on time if they finish their studies within four years. At Vanderbilt the on-time graduation rate of first-time, full-time students is 88%. That is great when compared to the national average of 33.3%
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During the 2017-2018 academic year, there were 7,057 undergraduates at Vanderbilt with 6,983 being full-time and 74 being part-time.
| $0-30 K | $30K-48K | $48-75 | $75-110K | $110K + |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $7,451 | $4,475 | $8,892 | $16,934 | $43,288 |
The net price is calculated by adding tuition, room, board and other costs and subtracting financial aid.Note that the net price is typically less than the published for a school. For more information on the sticker price of Vanderbilt, see our tuition and fees and room and board pages.
Almost 66% of college students who graduated with the class of 2018 took out student loans, but that percentage varies from school to school. At Vanderbilt, approximately 11% of students took out student loans averaging $8,872 a year. That adds up to $35,488 over four years for those students.
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Contact details for Vanderbilt are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 2101 West End Avenue, Nashville, TN 37240 |
| Phone: | 615-322-7311 |
| Website: | www.vanderbilt.edu/ |
| Most Popular Majors | Bachelor’s Degrees | Average Salary of Graduates |
|---|---|---|
| Nursing | 490 | NA |
| Other Multi/Interdisciplinary Studies | 306 | $37,276 |
| Business Administration & Management | 289 | NA |
| Economics | 269 | $84,311 |
| General Social Sciences | 247 | $61,389 |
| Computer Science | 246 | $122,244 |
| Law | 178 | NA |
| Mathematics | 165 | $103,812 |
| Applied Mathematics | 142 | NA |
| Political Science & Government | 124 | $46,843 |
Online learning options are becoming more and more popular at American colleges and universities. Online classes are great for students who have busy schedules or for those who just want to study on their own time.
In 2022-2023, 1,317 students took at least one online class at Vanderbilt University. This is a decrease from the 1,519 students who took online classes the previous year.
| Year | Took at Least One Online Class | Took All Classes Online |
|---|---|---|
| 2022-2023 | 1,317 | 699 |
| 2021-2022 | 1,519 | 698 |
| 2020-2021 | 11,264 | 3,052 |
| 2018-2019 | 826 | 252 |
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Footnotes
*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.
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