Editing Nashville, Tennessee (section)

===Colleges and universities===
Nashville has been labeled the "Athens of the South" due to the many colleges and universities in the metropolitan area.<ref name="Kreyling1996">{{cite book |title=Classical Nashville: Athens of the South |publisher=Vanderbilt University Press |location=Nashville |first1=Christine M |last1=Kreyling |first2=Wesley |last2=Paine |first3=Charles W |last3=Warterfield |first4=Susan Ford |last4=Wiltshire |year=1996 |isbn=0-585-13200-3}}</ref> Total enrollment in post-secondary education in Nashville is around 43,000.

The largest is [[Vanderbilt University]], with about 13,000 students.<ref>{{cite web |title=Vanderbilt University |url=https://nces.ed.gov/collegenavigator/?q=Vanderbilt+University&s=all&id=221999 |website=National Center for Education Statistics |access-date=April 26, 2020 |archive-date=July 28, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200728022349/https://nces.ed.gov/collegenavigator/?q=Vanderbilt+University&s=all&id=221999 |url-status=live }}</ref> Vanderbilt is considered one of the nation's leading research universities and is particularly known for its medical, law, business, engineering, and education programs.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.forbes.com/colleges/vanderbilt-university/#353b4ac46c61|title=Vanderbilt University|author=<!--Not stated-->|date=2019|work=[[Forbes]]|access-date=April 26, 2020|archive-date=April 14, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200414070049/https://www.forbes.com/colleges/vanderbilt-university/#353b4ac46c61|url-status=live}}</ref>

Nashville is home to more [[historically black colleges and universities|historically Black]] institutions of higher education than any other city save for [[Atlanta|Atlanta, Georgia]]: [[Fisk University]], [[Tennessee State University]], [[Meharry Medical College]], and [[American Baptist College]].<ref name="tribune20130418">{{cite news |url=http://tntribune.com/education/american-baptist-college-designated-as-hbcu/ |title=American Baptist College Designated as HBCU |work=The Tennessee Tribune |date=April 18, 2013 |access-date=January 4, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140715200039/http://tntribune.com/education/american-baptist-college-designated-as-hbcu/ |archive-date=July 15, 2014 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

Other schools based in Nashville include [[Belmont University]], [[Lipscomb University]], [[Trevecca Nazarene University]], and [[John A. Gupton College]]. The [[Tennessee Board of Regents]] operates [[Nashville State Community College]] and the Nashville branch of the Tennessee Colleges of Applied Technology.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.tbr.edu/institutions/our-institutions|title=Our Institutions|author=<!--Not stated-->|website=tbr.edu|date=May 2018|publisher=[[Tennessee Board of Regents]]|access-date=April 26, 2020|archive-date=April 27, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200427135423/https://www.tbr.edu/institutions/our-institutions|url-status=live}}</ref>

Other nearby institutes of higher education include [[Murfreesboro, Tennessee|Murfreesboro's]] [[Middle Tennessee State University]] (MTSU) and [[Clarksville, Tennessee|Clarksville's]] [[Austin Peay University]], both full-sized public university with Tennessee's second- and eighth-largest undergraduate populations, respectively; [[Daymar College]] in Franklin; and [[Cumberland University]] in [[Lebanon, Tennessee|Lebanon]].