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
#### 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
### 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 
### 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

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