Vanderbilt University plans to expand its business school to Florida, with a business school on the same scale as the Owen School of Business on its Nashville campus. The satellite campus is expected to enroll approximately 1,000 students at steady state.
If Vanderbilt University offered its MBA program in downtown West Palm Beach, the most likely location for the school, it would become the highest-ranked full-time MBA in the state. Owen is currently ranked in the top 25 in the United States, finishing 21st in the latest rankings. poet and poetry Ranking. The University of Florida ranks him 25th on the same list. Since 2006, Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management has opened a Florida campus in the Miami suburb of Coral Gables for its Executive MBA program.
Vanderbilt University plans to create a college of computer science and artificial intelligence along with its business school, the university revealed in an interview with the newspaper. palm beach post. “We have been thinking about the possibility of a second campus for some time, and it was clear that South Florida, West Palm Beach and Palm Beach were the best locations,” Vanderbilt University Chancellor Daniel Diermeier told the newspaper. It became,” he said.
Estimated cost of Florida campus is $300 million
Vanderbilt University's plan is to build a campus on seven acres of government land that was previously eyed by the University of Florida as a graduate school campus.
On April 1, Mr. Diermeyer met with government officials to gain support for the satellite campus. Among other things, he attended a fundraiser for billionaire Stephen Ross, whose name graces the University of Michigan's business school, at his Palm Beach home. The event raised $100 million of the $300 million the university had sought to expand its campus, the paper said.
Diermeier said: palm beach post The Florida campus will capitalize on Palm Beach County's growing reputation as South of Wall Street and offer students jobs at financial firms. “Vanderbilt's campus will 'accelerate' the creation of new student-founded businesses and create an innovation industry,” Diermeyer said, according to the newspaper.
Vanderbilt expects to eventually enroll about 1,000 students in Florida.
If the plan comes to fruition, the estimated enrollment of 1,000 students would exceed Owen's current enrollment of just over 600 students, bringing the newest incoming full-time MBA class to a total of 160 students. Vanderbilt has more than 1,100 of her alumni in Palm Beach and Broward counties.
Diermeyer told the newspaper that Vanderbilt University intends to build a larger West Palm Beach campus only if it receives support from the business community and government officials. He said Vanderbilt officials have not discussed receiving state funding for the project, “although we welcome it.”
Diermeier added that Vanderbilt would only build a campus “if the community wants us to.” “One way to demonstrate that is to co-invest. We need that 100%…This is a marriage that doesn't work for us.”
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