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As a Vanderbilt graduate, I can tell you, Vanderbilt's LONG TIME policy is that students are required to live on campus - ALL STUDENTS, unless you are from Nashville or a specific radius that includes local suburbs. Students are also not allowed to live in Fraternity/Sorority houses except the top 6 officers. The school has an undergrad population of about 6500 and that has also stayed steady for the last 25 or so years. Vanderbilt students are also not allowed to have cars.

Vanderbilt is Nashville's largest employer. The area around the school isn't residential except near the Peabody campus (which now houses all the freshman dorms - previously it was sophomore housing) and north of the Medical Center. The majority of the school is surrounded by commercial development.

So, beyond being private institutions located in cities, Vanderbilt and Georgetown really have nothing else in common. If anything, Nashville would probably prefer that more Vanderbilt student money made its way out into the community, because as a student, there is not much reason to leave the immediate area, and most don't.

by GNR on Jun 10, 2012 1:52 pm • link • report