The Colleges

Upper-Division Colleges

Residential colleges are a type of on-campus student residence in which the academic experience is integrated into residential life, creating communities and opportunities for learning outside the classroom. Led by faculty heads who live in residence, Vanderbilt’s residential colleges create an intentional, mutually-beneficial educational experience for our students, faculty and staff. At Vanderbilt, residential colleges offer a space where students are supported to curate their sense of self; pursue integrative learning; dialogue across difference; engage in advocacy; foster their leadership potential; and forge global connections.

Beyond a traditional residence hall, these spaces, each with unique personalities, amenities, and programs, act as a home away from home for residents. Each individual college is led by a faculty member who is there to help students explore and pursue their personal, educational, and career goals.

Each college also represents an expansion of the residential college system—a key pillar of the Academic Strategic Plan—representing vibrant living-learning communities that create transformative educational experiences for Vanderbilt students.

To learn more about the amenities offered and specifics of each residential college, visit the Housing and Residential Experience webpage.

E. Bronson Ingram College

Opened in August of 2018, E. Bronson Ingram College is the third residential college built at Vanderbilt University.

The 205,000 sq. ft. facility provides housing for 340 sophomores, juniors, and seniors. E. Bronson Ingram College offers a variety of spaces in which its residents can live, learn, collaborate, and socialize. Residents have on-site access to a shared dining room, study lounges, social spaces and formal & informal outdoor green spaces.

E. Bronson Ingram College is named after E. Bronson Ingram, who served on the Vanderbilt Board of Trust for nearly three decades and led the board from 1991 to 1995.

FACULTY HEAD: TERESA GODDU

Moore College

Opened in August 2014, Moore College provides state-of-the art living accommodations inside gothic-style architecture.

It is home to 341 upper-division students in four, five, and six-person suites along with more traditional double and single rooms. Students live on all floors of this six-story building. Building residents are encouraged to take advantage of the lounges, study areas, music rooms, conference rooms, common kitchen and laundry facilities.

Moore College is named in honor of Stanford Moore, a 1935 Vanderbilt graduate who received the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1972.

FACULTY HEAD: MUMIN KURTULUS

Nicholas S. Zeppos College

Opened in Fall 2020, Nicholas S. Zeppos College is named after former Vanderbilt University Chancellor Nicholas S. Zeppos.

Located at the corner of West End Avenue and 25th Avenue South, Zeppos College is the fourth residential college to open in the West End neighborhood. The gothic-style building houses 335 sophomores, juniors, and seniors in four-person suites, traditional double rooms, and traditional single rooms. It also features a state-of-the-art dining hall, great room, study lounges, and several other event spaces designed to help foster community among students and residential faculty.

FACULTY HEAD: JEONG-OH KIM

Oliver C. Carmichael College

Opened in August 2024, Oliver C. Carmichael College is the sixth residential college to open in the West End Neighborhood.

Named after Oliver C. Carmichael, who was Vanderbilt’s third chancellor from 1937 to 1946, Carmichael College features an all-day café, great room, and study lounges. The college houses around 305 students and is designed to achieve LEED Gold certification (certification is pending).

FACULTY HEAD: EMILY PENDERGRASS

Rothschild College

Warren College

Opened in August 2014, Warren College is named in honor of 1925 Vanderbilt graduate Robert Penn Warren, member of the influential Fugitive poets and the first poet laureate of the United States

Warren College is home to 319 upper-division students in four, five, and six-person suites along with more traditional double and single rooms. Students live on all floors of this five-story building. Building residents are encouraged to take advantage of the lounges, study areas, music rooms, conference rooms, common kitchen and laundry facilities.

Residential Colleges