List of colleges and universities in Tennessee

This is a list of colleges and universities in Tennessee:

State of Tennessee Institutions

University of Tennessee System

Universities
InstitutionLocationCarnegie Classification Enrollment (Fall 2017) University of Tennessee (Flagship university) Knoxville (main campus) Doctoral University: Very High Research Activity 28,321 University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Chattanooga Doctoral/Professional Universities 11,587 University of Tennessee at Martin Martin Master's Colleges and Universities: Small Programs 6,772

Associated institutions
The University of Tennessee also operates the following associated institutions:

University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis
University of Tennessee Space Institute, Tullahoma

Independent Four-year Institutions
InstitutionLocationCarnegie Classification Enrollment (Fall 2017) Middle Tennessee State University Murfreesboro Doctoral/Professional Universities 21,913 University of Memphis Memphis Doctoral Universities: High Research Activity 21,521 East Tennessee State University Johnson City Doctoral Universities: High Research Activity 14,353 Tennessee Technological University Cookeville Doctoral Universities: High Research Activity 10,504 Austin Peay State University Clarksville Doctoral Universities:  Moderate Research Activity 10,463 Tennessee State University (HBCU) Nashville Doctoral Universities: High Research Activity 8,177

Tennessee Board of Regents

Two-year institutions
Chattanooga State Community College, Chattanooga
Cleveland State Community College, Cleveland
Columbia State Community College, Columbia
Dyersburg State Community College, Dyersburg
Jackson State Community College, Jackson
Motlow State Community College, Lynchburg
Nashville State Community College, Nashville
Northeast State Community College, Blountville
Pellissippi State Community College, Knoxville
Roane State Community College, Harriman
Southwest Tennessee Community College, Memphis
Volunteer State Community College, Gallatin
Walters State Community College, Morristown

Colleges of Applied Technology
 Tennessee College of Applied Technology - Athens
 Tennessee College of Applied Technology - Chattanooga
 Tennessee College of Applied Technology - Covington
 Tennessee College of Applied Technology - Crossville
 Tennessee College of Applied Technology - Crump
 Tennessee College of Applied Technology - Dickson
 Tennessee College of Applied Technology - Elizabethton
 Tennessee College of Applied Technology - Harriman
 Tennessee College of Applied Technology - Hartsville
 Tennessee College of Applied Technology - Hohenwald
 Tennessee College of Applied Technology - Jacksboro
 Tennessee College of Applied Technology - Jackson
 Tennessee College of Applied Technology - Knoxville
 Tennessee College of Applied Technology - Livingston
 Tennessee College of Applied Technology - McKenzie
 Tennessee College of Applied Technology - McMinnville
 Tennessee College of Applied Technology - Memphis
 Tennessee College of Applied Technology - Morristown
 Tennessee College of Applied Technology - Murfreesboro
 Tennessee College of Applied Technology - Nashville
 Tennessee College of Applied Technology - Newbern
 Tennessee College of Applied Technology - Oneida
 Tennessee College of Applied Technology - Paris
 Tennessee College of Applied Technology - Pulaski
 Tennessee College of Applied Technology - Ripley
 Tennessee College of Applied Technology - Shelbyville
 Tennessee College of Applied Technology - Whiteville

Private institutions

 Large and medium-size private colleges and universities 
InstitutionLocationCarnegie Basic Classification Carnegie Size ClassificationEnrollment (Fall 2017)Affiliation Vanderbilt University NashvilleDoctoral Universities: Very High Research ActivityLarge 12,592None Belmont University Nashville Doctoral/Professional UniversitiesMedium 8,012None (Christian) Bethel University McKenzie Master's Colleges and Universities: Larger ProgramsMedium 5,779Cumberland Presbyterian Church Lee University Cleveland Master's Colleges and Universities: Medium ProgramsMedium 5,370Church of GodLincoln Memorial UniversityHarrogateDoctoral/Professional UniversitiesMedium4,770None Lipscomb University Nashville Doctoral/Professional UniversitiesMedium 4,642Churches of Christ Trevecca Nazarene University Nashville Doctoral/Professional UniversitiesMedium 3,221Nazarene

Small private colleges and universities

Private liberal arts colleges
Carson-Newman University, Jefferson City
Hiwassee College, Madisonville (Closed in 2019)
Lane College, Jackson
Maryville College, Maryville
Martin Methodist College, Pulaski
Milligan College, near Elizabethton in Carter County
Rhodes College, Memphis
The University of the South, Sewanee
Williamson College, Franklin

 Private colleges and universities 

American Baptist College, Nashville
Aquinas College, Nashville
Baptist Memorial College of Health Sciences, Memphis
Bryan College, Dayton
Christian Brothers University, Memphis
Crown College, Powell
Cumberland University, Lebanon
Emmanuel Christian Seminary, Johnson City
Fisk University, Nashville
Freed-Hardeman University, Henderson
Harding School of Theology, Memphis
Johnson University, Knoxville
King University, Bristol
Knoxville College, Knoxville
Lambuth University, Jackson (closed in 2011, facilities now a satellite campus of the University of Memphis)
LeMoyne-Owen College, Memphis
Meharry Medical College, Nashville
Memphis College of Art, Memphis
Memphis Theological Seminary, Memphis
Mid-America Baptist Theological Seminary, Cordova
New College Franklin, Franklin
Nashville School of Law, Nashville
O'More College of Design, Franklin
Oxford Graduate School, Dayton
Scarritt College, Nashville (closed in 1988)
Southern Adventist University, Collegedale
Southern College of Optometry, Memphis
Tennessee Bible College, Cookeville
Tennessee Temple University, Chattanooga (closed in 2015)
Tennessee Wesleyan University, Athens
Trevecca Nazarene University, Nashville
Tusculum University, Tusculum
Union University, Jackson
Victory University, Memphis defunct
Watkins College of Art and Design, Nashville
Welch College, Gallatin
WGU Tennessee, Statewide (online)

Two-year institutions
John A. Gupton College, Nashville
National College of Business & Technology, Memphis
Remington College
Nashville
Memphis
Daymar Institute
Clarksville
Murfreesboro
Nashville
Miller-Motte Technical College
Clarksville

For-profit colleges
The Art Institute of Tennessee- Nashville
Draughons Junior College
South College
Strayer University
University of Phoenix
Virginia College
Lincoln College of Technology

References


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