Vanderbilt’s new San Francisco campus

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Anonymous wrote:Tech

AI

Tech

AI

Tech.

Did I mention internships? For a subset of students, this is smart. It is a small expansion that students who want tech interniships can tap into at the right time.

Santa Clara U punches WAY above its weight for a reason. That reason is location.

We are not interested in Vandy. But if we were, I’d endorse this.

I guess I get this but Vanderbilt is much better in life sciences and healthcare.

Perhaps they have a growth mindset and the wherewithal to do something about it? This is a stab and growing in relevance, not just popularity. I imagine the talent pool of professors will be rich.

I don’t ow how it will be implemented, but the move is wise.

Acceptance rates are checkers. Future departments/majors and a need to stay ahead in education is chess. At least they are taking solid action.

It doesn't seem to have worked at well for Northeastern, they were far more popular before the expansion. Now off the map at our private.

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Anonymous wrote:Nashville sucks, so good idea.

Nashville doesn't suck at all. For college cities, it's a good one.

It’s a fine city to drink in and not much else. You’d have a lot more fun in NY, LA, SF, Boston, Austin, Chicago… it really is a one dimensional place.

The music scene??

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Anonymous wrote:Any thoughts?

I don’t know why it’s necessary? And that poor art school where the current students knew nothing about it and just our above to begin their next semester.

https://news.vanderbilt.edu/2026/01/13/vanderbilt-university-to-establish-full-time-academic-campus-in-san-francisco/

I'm in SF and I saw that they acquired the CCA building in the southeast neighborhood called Design District, near Portrero Hill. Seems odd as the culture of Vanderbilt and SF and this location (urban, industrialized, recently gentrified and still a bit gritty) couldn't be more different.

As someone also familiar with SF, there is a perverse logic to this acquisition. The location is an area redeveloped with upscale housing and amenities, not far from Chase Center (Warriors) and Oracle Park (Giants).

Perfect for a school known for wealthy students who can claim to have lived in SF while insulating themselves from what remains of the grittier parts of the city. The more adventurous ones can go slumming by walking over to the Mission to enjoy a variety of ethnic cuisines, unimaginable in Nashville, after hanging out at Dog Eared Books.

How many multi-acre properties are actually available on the San Francisco peninsula? Whether Nob Hill or the Tenderloin? You can only work with what's available.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Tech

AI

Tech

AI

Tech.

Did I mention internships? For a subset of students, this is smart. It is a small expansion that students who want tech interniships can tap into at the right time.

Santa Clara U punches WAY above its weight for a reason. That reason is location.

We are not interested in Vandy. But if we were, I’d endorse this.

I guess I get this but Vanderbilt is much better in life sciences and healthcare.

Perhaps they have a growth mindset and the wherewithal to do something about it? This is a stab and growing in relevance, not just popularity. I imagine the talent pool of professors will be rich.

I don’t ow how it will be implemented, but the move is wise.

Acceptance rates are checkers. Future departments/majors and a need to stay ahead in education is chess. At least they are taking solid action.

It doesn't seem to have worked at well for Northeastern, they were far more popular before the expansion. Now off the map at our private.

Where did Northeastern expand to?

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Vanderbilt is now a For Profit College

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Nashville sucks, so good idea.

Nashville doesn't suck at all. For college cities, it's a good one.

It’s a fine city to drink in and not much else. You’d have a lot more fun in NY, LA, SF, Boston, Austin, Chicago… it really is a one dimensional place.

The music scene??

Better in all the cities I listed other than Boston/Austin, which still have much more to do.

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Three areas of sustainable wealth creation and employment opportunities which are not saturated with top tier schools.

They are very focused on ‘immersion’ - maybe it is a NEU-like angle?

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So weird how Emory gets insulted and mocked for its Oxford campus. Saying its a back door and that its easy to get into despite the 13% acceptance rate. For some reason I feel Vandys new 3?, 4? Campuses wont get the same treatment when the acceptance rate is near 100% the first few years.

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Anonymous wrote:Vanderbilt is now a For Profit College

This is an insightful post. I agree.

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Anonymous wrote:So weird how Emory gets insulted and mocked for its Oxford campus. Saying its a back door and that its easy to get into despite the 13% acceptance rate. For some reason I feel Vandys new 3?, 4? Campuses wont get the same treatment when the acceptance rate is near 100% the first few years.

Emory at Oxford is a bit of a scam. Students pay the same (unless this has recently changed) for a high school campus in a lost cost area as those at the main campus in Decatur/Atlanta with significantly more facilities and far better location for entertainment, internships, and life in general.

Key fact that you may not have considered: The yield rate for Emory at Oxford (the backdoor to Emory) is just 17%. This is pretty low. A healthy yield rate is 30% or higher.

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Anonymous wrote:So weird how Emory gets insulted and mocked for its Oxford campus. Saying its a back door and that its easy to get into despite the 13% acceptance rate. For some reason I feel Vandys new 3?, 4? Campuses wont get the same treatment when the acceptance rate is near 100% the first few years.

Emory at Oxford is a bit of a scam. Students pay the same (unless this has recently changed) for a high school campus in a lost cost area as those at the main campus in Decatur/Atlanta with significantly more facilities and far better location for entertainment, internships, and life in general.

Key fact that you may not have considered: The yield rate for Emory at Oxford (the backdoor to Emory) is just 17%. This is pretty low. A healthy yield rate is 30% or higher.

Emory at Oxford is just Emory’s original liberal arts college campus, so nothing high school about it. You get two years with small courses encouraging great recommendation letters for opportunities, and then you get to go to Emory main campus as an upperclassmen in more small courses and are actually eligible for the co op opportunities you are speaking about. You aren’t going to die for spending some time away from a major city.

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Anonymous wrote:Three areas of sustainable wealth creation and employment opportunities which are not saturated with top tier schools.

They are very focused on ‘immersion’ - maybe it is a NEU-like angle?

New York Finance and SF tech are extremely saturated.

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Are they increasing the size of the freshman class and splitting them up between all FOUR US campuses?

What other T20 has more than 1 US campus?

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Anonymous wrote:Are they increasing the size of the freshman class and splitting them up between all FOUR US campuses?

What other T20 has more than 1 US campus?

JHU has separate campuses for different majors. But homewood is small.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:So weird how Emory gets insulted and mocked for its Oxford campus. Saying its a back door and that its easy to get into despite the 13% acceptance rate. For some reason I feel Vandys new 3?, 4? Campuses wont get the same treatment when the acceptance rate is near 100% the first few years.

Emory at Oxford is a bit of a scam. Students pay the same (unless this has recently changed) for a high school campus in a lost cost area as those at the main campus in Decatur/Atlanta with significantly more facilities and far better location for entertainment, internships, and life in general.

Key fact that you may not have considered: The yield rate for Emory at Oxford (the backdoor to Emory) is just 17%. This is pretty low. A healthy yield rate is 30% or higher.

You do know Emory Oxford yeild is low because most students get into both campuses and choose the Atlanta campus instead right... Also these other campuses will have low yeild too. Emory Oxford is the most selective 2 year program in the world, nothing scam about that.