Lipscomb University is a private, coeducational, liberal arts university in Nashville, Tennessee, United States. It is affiliated with the Churches of Christ. The campus is located in the Green Hills neighborhood of Nashville between Belmont Boulevard to the west and Granny White Pike on the east. Student enrollment for the fall 2016 semester is 4,632 which includes 2,986 undergraduate students and 1,646 graduate students. It also maintains two locations called "Spark" in the Cool Springs area of Williamson County and Downtown Nashville.
U.S. News & World Report ranks Lipscomb University 18th among Regional Universities (South)according to the U.S. News & World Report's "2015 America's Best Colleges" guidebook. Lipscomb's liberal arts curriculum includes a wide range of academic programs in the arts and sciences. The curriculum continues to evolve, notably with the addition of civil and environmental engineering in the Raymond B. Jones College of Engineering and the doctorate in pharmacy in the College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences.Under the administration of President Lowry, Lipscomb increased the number of its graduate programs from 8 in 2005 to 44 in 2015.