Overview
- Vanderbilt’s Board of Trust authorized work to begin and the university opened a $250 million campaign to fund closing and construction costs for a new graduate campus.
- The campus is planned along South Tamarind Avenue between Datura and Fern streets on a roughly 7-acre site formed by city and county land donations.
- Graduate offerings will focus on business and engineering with specializations in finance, management, space technology, defense manufacturing and fintech, with AI and data science integrated across curricula.
- Designs will be finalized next as officials target building completion in 2028 or 2029, with events and academic programming expected to start earlier in existing West Palm Beach venues.
- Planned options include a semester in West Palm Beach for freshmen and sophomores, and local leaders say the campus should help retain talent and attract research investment.