Is Vandy an Ivy League school?

Vanderbilt is not a member of the Ivy League. Neither are MIT, Stanford, the University of Chicago, UCB or many, many other fine universities. The members are Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Princeton, the University of Pennsylvania, Dartmouth, Cornell and Brown.Apr 8, 2016 read more

An Ivy League school is a university that is a member of a particular athletic conference, the Ivy League. There are 8 of them. Among them are the oldest universities in the country. In fact all but I think one were founded prior to independence from Britain. Vanderbilt is not a member of the Ivy League. read more

Nationally, i'm not sure how powerful Vanderbilt's name is outside of its region. It's pretty weak in the West coast, not sure about how strong it is in the East. Overall, i wouldn't compare it to the Ivy-league schools. read more

Vanderbilt is known as one of the most prestigious schools in the South and for this reason is sometimes referred to as the Harvard of the South. In addition to Duke, Emory, Rice, etc., Vanderbilt is often referred to as a "Southern Ivy". read more