Located in Nashville, in the state of Tennessee, in the United States, the Vanderbilt University It is considered one of the fifteen best universities in the country and one of the fifty best in the world. Therefore, it is no surprise that it has a billion-dollar endowment, worth a total of $4.6 billion dollars.

Among its notable alumni, the list includes economist Muhammad Yunus, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006, as well as two Vice Presidents of the United States: John Nance Garner and Al Gore. As for the latter, he received the Nobel Peace Prize the following year from Yunus, in 2007, together with the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, due to “efforts in building and disseminating greater knowledge about climate change induced by man and for laying the necessary foundations to reverse them”.