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The college is set to open in 2027 with a national search already underway for the college\u2019s inaugural dean. <\/p>\n
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) – Vanderbilt\u2019s San Francisco campus will be opening soon.<\/p>\n
The campus\u2019s flagship college will be the Jen-Hsun and Lori Huang College of Art, Architecture and Design, made possible by a $75 million gift from the technology leader\u2019s family.<\/p>\n
According to Vanderbilt, the Huangs are both engineers. Jensen Huang founded the computer chip company NVIDIA in 1993. He serves as president, chief executive officer, and a member of the board of directors. <\/p>\n
Vanderbilt said NVIDIA is a leader in advanced chip systems and AI engineering software. <\/p>\n
\u201cThe gift also inspired philanthropic support from alumni and others, for a total investment so far of more than $100 million,\u201d Vanderbilt said in a release.<\/p>\n
The college is set to open in 2027 with a national search already underway for the college\u2019s inaugural dean. <\/p>\n According to Vanderbilt, its San Francisco campus will focus on engineering and entrepreneurship and design to educate artists, makers and designers.<\/p>\n The campus is expected to serve about 1,000 undergraduate and graduate students, along with full-time faculty, and will build on the nearly 120-year legacy of the California College of the Arts. <\/p>\n Vanderbilt has recently opened and has other campuses planned, including one in New York City and one planned for West Palm Beach<\/a>, along with the Institute for Quantum Innovation in Chattanooga<\/a>. <\/p>\n Copyright 2026 WSMV. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What This Story Is About Vanderbilt will soon open its campus in San Francisco. Why It Matters The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":407051,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[23,100,101,103,102,104,106,105,51510,8207,44974,163200,163201],"class_list":["post-407050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news","tag-vanderbilt","tag-vanderbilt-university","tag-wsmv","tag-wsmv-4","tag-wsmv-4-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=407050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407050\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/407051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=407050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=407050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=407050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/WCZWEBRKNJC6BHZCWR4ZBCEHIA.png\"\/)
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