Education in Nashville

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Kirkland Hall, Vanderbilt University

• Vanderbilt University, www.vanderbilt.edu. One of America's top 20 universities, Vanderbilt is home to just over 11,000 undergraduate and professional students. Vanderbilt offers 66 major fields of study in the arts and sciences, engineering, music, education, and human development, as well as a full range of graduate and professional degrees.
• Middle Tennessee State University (MTSU), www.mtsu.edu. In Murfreesboro.
• Austin Peay State University, www.apsu.edu
• Belmont University, 1900 Belmont Blvd, +1 615 460-6000, www.belmont.edu. A private university offering undergraduate and graduate degree programs in over 65 different studies. Belmont University hosted the United States Presidential Townhall debate on October 7th, 2008 www.belmontdebate08.com.
• Fisk University, 1000 17th Ave N, +1 615 329-8500, www.fisk.edu. Fisk University has a long history. It is a liberal arts college that was founded in 1866 to educate freed slaves and has since then seen many distinguished graduates.
• Lipscomb University, Physical Address: 3901 Granny White Pike. Mailing Address: One University Park Drive, +1 615 966-1000, www.lipscomb.edu. Lipscomb University is a private coeducational institution whose principal focus is undergraduate education in the liberal arts and sciences, combined with a number of pre-professional fields and master’s degree programs. Its primary mission is to integrate Christian faith and practice with academic excellence.
• Tennessee State University, 3500 John A Merritt Blvd, +1 615 963-5000, www.tnstate.edu.
• Trevecca Nazarene University, www.trevecca.edu.
• Aquinas College, 4210 Harding Rd, +1 615 297-7545, www.aquinas-tn.edu. A private Catholic school with liberal arts and science curriculum.
• Free Will Baptist Bible College, 3606 West End Ave, +1 615 844-5000, www.fwbbc.edu. Founded in 1942, FWBBC now enrolls around 350 students per year and offers them a number of degree programs.
• Nashville State Community College, www.nscc.edu.
• Strayer University, www.strayer.edu/nashville.
• Tennessee Foreign Language Institute, 227 French Landing Dr., Suite 100. +1 615 741-7579, www.foreignlanguages.org. One of a kind state-supported language institute offering classes on site and in the workplace in up to 141 languages, including ESL, and interpretation and translation services to government, business and the community at large.
• Nossi College of Art, www.nossi.com.
• O'More College of Design, Franklin, www.omorecollege.edu.
• The Art Institute of Tennessee- Nashville, www.artinstitutes.edu/nashville.
• Meharry Medical College, www.mmc.edu.
• Volunteer State Community College, www.volstate.edu.
• Watkins College of Art and Design, www.watkins.edu.

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