The Interdisciplinary Materials Science (IMS) program at Vanderbilt University offers a unique opportunity to design a Masters or Ph.D. program that satisfies a graduate student's individual interests. With 37 full time faculty members involved in the program and over 46 different course offerings, many options are available to students who desire an advance materials science degree. Hands-on research opportunities are possible owing to the extensive infrastructure at Vanderbilt for materials processing and characterization. In addition, a long history of collaboration between the Vanderbilt IMS program and the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) provides the graduate student with exposure to truly state-of-the-art equipment and interaction with world-class scientists. Finally, extremely competitive stipends are available for qualified students to provide for a comfortable financial setting during the IMS graduate degree program.