The UTC Lupton Library houses over one million pieces of material including 468,000 books and periodicals. With access to the Chattanooga-Hamilton County Bicentennial Library, students may take advantage of 3,000 periodicals received annually. The UTC Lupton Library also maintains a computerized data base with an on-line public catalog and an annotated circulation system as well as linkages with other university libraries in the Southeast. Home to major industries and companies, the city is committed to intensive metropolitan development featuring the beauty of the river front and the Tennessee Aquarium . The city benefits also from an unusually large number of private foundations which call Chattanooga home.
National parks surround the Chattanooga area, an important site in the Civil War.
The Tennessee River winds between the famous ridges and mountains. Chattanooga is a two-hour drive from Atlanta, Nashville,Knoxville, and Birmingham. The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. All rights reserved.