Get ready for Vanderbilt University San Francisco, and part of it will be called California College of the Arts Institute at Vanderbilt, as Vanderbilt has basically bought up the dying husk of the California College of the Arts. There has been some hopeful rumor floating around for the last six months or so that the prestigious Nashville-based Vanderbilt University might open a downtown San Francisco campus, as SF leaders have spent the last few years aggressively trying to court a university to open downtown.