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High Altitude: Vanderbilt University Graduate Education. 2001 2011 (2/28/12) Graduate applications* 2,709 7,254 (8,006) Offers of admission 974 (36%) 887 (12.2%) First-time enrollments** 387 (40%) 446 (50.3%)
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High Altitude: Vanderbilt UniversityGraduate Education 2001 2011 (2/28/12) Graduate applications* 2,709 7,254 (8,006) Offers of admission 974 (36%) 887 (12.2%) First-time enrollments** 387 (40%) 446 (50.3%) Number of graduate students 1,670 2,304 Ph.D.s awarded 168 297 External funding (total) $217.6 million > $585 million * Complete applications ** Acceptances minus no-shows Roughly 2/3 of students are in grant-based fields.
14 Universities in Top-25 on Both of Two Lists, 2011 Top-25 on Both Lists USN&WR ranking* Federal Obligations for Science/Engineering R&D** Harvard University 1 9 Yale University 3 15 Columbia University 4 12 Univ. of Pennsylvania 5 6 Stanford University 5 13 MIT 5 16 Univ. of Chicago 5 23 Duke University 10 8 Johns Hopkins University 13 1 Washington University 14 11 Cornell University 15 19 (all campuses) Vanderbilt University 17 20 Emory University 20 25 UCLA 25 5 * repeated numbers indicate tie (2011 data) ** most recent (FY2008) data