Vanderbilt University is moving forward with plans to establish a graduate campus in downtown West Palm Beach, marking a major investment in South Florida higher education and potentially reshaping the region’s academic landscape.
FAU’s graduate admissions rate for its engineering and business programs sits in the range of 54-69%. Vanderbilt has a much more selective process, with an overall graduate admissions rate of only 12%.
The Nashville-based private university has already committed over $500 million to their West Palm Beach campus, and has recently entered a new fundraising phase to secure roughly $250 million to support the construction and development of the campus, which is expected to focus on graduate-level programs in fields such as business, engineering, artificial intelligence, and data science. This comes as Vanderbilt is actively expanding into different states, with San Francisco and New York campuses also set to open soon…