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Vanderbilt students only have to step off campus to reach the shops, stores, and restaurants that make up the Hillsboro Village, as well as nearby retail meccas Hillsboro Village and Green Hills. But students looking to escape the Vanderbilt Bubble can take advantage of downtown Nashville, a quick ten-minute car ride away. Some students are wary of the vagrants and panhandlers from the city (dubbed “Nash Trash”) who get too close to their campus, and while crime on-campus is usually fairly low, the proximity to a major U.S. city can make less urbanized kids nervous. But those who make the trek to any of Nashville’s numerous live music venues, bars, restaurants, and cultural scene report that it’s a great city for the college crowd.

Vanderbilt is only a mile away from downtown Nashville, but the campus has done its best to protect its green spaces and natural beauty from the urban sprawl. The campus itself is laid out like a fan, with the historic Main Campus section at the base and subsequent development reaching out towards the city. Main Campus, primarily constructed during Vanderbilt’s early years, contains the majority of the academic buildings for the College of Arts and Science, as well as the Owen graduate business school, the divinity school, law school, and Sarratt Student Center. The medical school complex borders Main Campus to the south, and to the west is Vanderbilt’s residential section, including dorms and Greek houses. Athletic facilities, fields, and the Vanderbilt Stadium flank campus on its far west end. Vanderbilt’s campus stands in contrast to the original Peabody facilities, and the two (which merged in the 1960s) are linked together by the 21st Avenue pedestrian bridge. Vanderbilt preserves an organic style with its curvy Romantic architecture and its natural landscaping and tree groves (the campus is a state-designated arboretum). Peabody, on the other hand, emulates Jeffersonian classicism, with white-pillared buildings and neo-Greek simplicity. While Peabody may be Vanderbilt property now, administrators have decided to enshrine its individual history by letting each side of 21st Avenue do its own thing.

Except for those rooming with relatives in Davidson County, Vanderbilt has typically required its undergrads to remain in campus housing for all four years. Starting in the fall of 2008, however, all students must live in university housing—-while some upperclassmen were disappointed by the change, 83 percent of undergrads already choose to stay on campus. It’s just one step Vanderbilt has taken recently to promote a better, self-contained community for students. Another major change, the construction of residential colleges called “College Halls,” will affect incoming freshmen from 2008 onwards. While the project will take 20 years to complete, the first of the College Halls, the Commons, collects ten residential halls on the Peabody campus to house all first-year students. Like the residential colleges at Harvard and Yale, the dorms will have some faculty members living, eating, studying, and doing laundry side-by-side with students. The brand-new facilities will be a boon to incoming freshmen, and two of the dorms have been recognized by the U.S. Green Building Council for their eco-friendly construction. The remaining residences are clustered around quads and in towers on the west side of campus alongside frat and sorority houses. Kissam Quadrangle, Alumni Lawn, Carmichael Towers East, Carmichael Towers West, Branscomb Quadrangle, and Highland Quadrangle mix freshmen and upperclassmen in a variety of singles, doubles, and suite-style living arrangements.

Vanderbilt’s teams get their name from Cornelius Vanderbilt—-known as “the Commodore”—-and are nicknamed "the Dores." In 2003, Vanderbilt attracted national attention when it decided to eliminate its separate athletic department and put all varsity sports under the care of the Office of Student Life, a first in Division I play. The move was designed to better integrate student-athletes into school life, and some feared quality coaches and players would flee the program. Ironically, since the change was made, Vanderbilt has chalked up better seasons than before, especially for its baseball, tennis, and basketball teams. Fourteen of Vanderbilt’s varsity teams compete in Division I play in the Southeastern Conference, making them both the smallest school and the only private one in the division, while their women’s and men’s lacrosse teams participate in the American Lacrosse Conference. While its football team may draw the most Commodore fans to the field, its record has been mediocre at best in recent years. The newly-formed women’s bowling team brought Vanderbilt its first NCAA team title since the school joined NCAA play, and men’s and women’s lacrosse both enjoy consistent success. Varsity baseball and basketball teams also make regular appearances in NCAA tournament play. Top 10 Things Every Vandy Sports Fan Should Know To Fence or Not to Fence?