Vanderbilt University is a prestigious private research university located in Nashville, Tennessee, United States. Founded in 1873, the school is a world-renowned top university and one of the few top universities in the southern United States, ranking 88 (Times, 2013) and 131 (QS, 2011) in the world. Vanderbilt University is a top university that has always remained within the top 150 in the world. With its excellent education quality and strong scientific research strength, it enjoys "Harvard of the South" and one of the National New Ivy League. ("New Ivy League" schools: Stanford University, Caltech, MIT, University of Chicago, Duke University, Emory University, Washington University in St. Louis, Carnegie Mellon University, Vanderbilt University).

According to U.S. News and World Report in 2010, Vanderbilt University ranked 17th in the nation's universities, second only to Duke University in the southern United States. Vanderbilt University has a complete range of disciplines, including liberal arts colleges, engineering colleges, law schools, medical schools, humanities colleges (peabody colleges), music colleges (Blair), management colleges (Owen), and seminaries.