University of Tennessee

The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, is the flagship campus of the University of Tennessee system, in Knoxville, Tennessee. It traces to Blount College, founded in 1794, and became a land-grant university after 1869. It grew from a small frontier college into a comprehensive state university. The main campus sits along the Tennessee River west of downtown, with an agricultural campus nearby.

Colleges include arts and sciences, the Tickle College of Engineering, the Haslam College of Business, law, architecture, communication, education, nursing, social work, agriculture, and veterinary medicine. Graduate students use the Oak Ridge National Laboratory partnership, including the Bredesen Center for interdisciplinary doctorates, and institutes in materials and computational science. UT Medical Center supports health research.

About 36,000 students enroll at Knoxville, including about 6,000 graduate and professional students and international students from many countries. Faculty number more than 1,500. Alumni include senator Howard Baker, quarterback Peyton Manning, and writer Cormac McCarthy.

Degrees include research master's and PhDs, plus JD, MBA, and DVM programs that mix coursework with supervised research. The calendar is a US semester system with a summer term. Assistantships and Oak Ridge-linked grants fund many doctoral students. Campus sits on the Tennessee River, with housing and labs between the main hill and downtown Knoxville.

In the Grad School Navigator directory, University of Tennessee lists 6 graduate programs across 6 subjects: 1 master's program and 5 doctoral programs, with the widest choice in earth & environmental sciences, education and finance & financial economics.