Vanderbilt University plans to open three major satellite campuses in technology and business hubs across the United States over the next three years. They will be located in New York City, Palm Beach and San Francisco.
While the latter has been in the works for months, Vanderbilt officially announced the San Francisco campus on Jan. 13. It will be home to about 1,000 undergraduate and graduate students with a focus on technology, engineering, design and entrepreneurship.
The expansion is aimed at broadening the range of opportunities Vanderbilt offers its students and positioning them to have the greatest impact, Chancellor Daniel Diermeier said to The Tennessean in 2024.
“San Francisco offers an extraordinary environment for learning at the intersection of innovation, creativity and technology, and it provides an unparalleled setting for Vanderbilt to shape the future of higher education,” Diermeier said in a statement. “By establishing a significant full-time presence here, Vanderbilt is expanding the ways our students and faculty engage with the world’s most innovative cities and advancing our core mission of education and discovery.”
Hadley Hitson covers business news for The Tennessean. She can be reached at hhitson@tennessean.com. To support her work, subscribe to The Tennessean.
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