Belmont University

The school for girls founded in the Belmont Mansion [1] in 1890 evolved in 1913 to the Ward-Belmont School for Women and in 1951 to coed Belmont College. Since 1991, it has been Belmont University, a higher-education institution with links to the Tennessee Baptist Convention. Belmont is a fast-growing university with highly respected music and music business programs. It has a student enrollment of 4,800.