Quick Facts
Students (Fall 2012)
- Enrollment: 27,018
(20,829 undergraduate and 6,189 graduate) - Enrollment by gender: 49.5 percent female and 50.5 percent male
- Average first-time freshman high school GPA: 3.89
- Average first-time freshman ACT: 26.8
- Acceptance rate: 67.3%
- Freshman retention rate: 85%
- Graduation rate (six years): 66%
- Student-to-faculty ratio: 15 to 1
- Degrees awarded for 2011-2012: 6,885
- Countries represented by our students: 100+
- Alumni: 220,000+
Prominent Alumni
- Olympian and WNBA player Candace Parker
- IBM and PC innovator Mark Dean
- Garmin co-founder Min Kao
- Former Senator, US Ambassador, and White House Chief of Staff Howard H. Baker, Jr.
- Former Obama Administration Deputy Chief of Staff Nancy-Ann Min DeParle
- Actor John Cullum
- NFL quarterback Peyton Manning
- Authors Alex Haley and Kurt Vonnegut
Campus
- Setting: Urban
- Acres: 560
- Buildings: 236
- Employees (faculty & staff): 9,791
Academics
- Colleges: 11
- Degree programs: 300+
- Undergraduate majors, concentrations, and specializations: 170+
- Academic calendar: Semester-based
Annual Tuition & Fees (2012-13)
- In-state: $9,092
- Out-of-state: $27,582
Research
- Research Awards: $166.81 million (FY 12)
- Research Expenditures: $151.28 million (FY 12)
- Research Centers and Institutes: 66
- Joint Research Institutes with Oak Ridge National Laboratory: 5
- Carnegie Classification: Research University (Very High Research Activity)
Athletics
- Mascot: Smokey, a blue tick coonhound
- Nickname: The Volunteers
- Unofficial Volunteers anthem (since 1972): “Rocky Top”
- NCAA championships (since 1987): 23
- Men's SEC championship team titles: 114 (most of any league school)
- Women's SEC championship team titles: 37
- Total SEC championship team titles: 151
Administration
- Chancellor: Jimmy G. Cheek
- Provost and Senior Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs: Susan Martin
Faculty
- Instructional faculty: 1,400
- UT-ORNL Governor's Chairs: 9
- Recent honors include a National Academy of Sciences member (2012), three Fulbright Scholars (2012), three National Science Foundation CAREER Award winners (2012), Margalef Award winner, seven American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellows (2012)
History
- Founded in Knoxville as Blount College in 1794
- Became a land-grant university in 1869
- Renamed the University of Tennessee in 1879
- UT Knoxville is the flagship and largest entity of the UT System, which is governed by a twenty six member Board of Trustees
- School colors: Orange and white
- Alma Mater: “On a Hallowed Hill”
Traditions
- Orange
- The Rock, an unofficial message board and historic campus icon, has been painted regularly by students since the 1970s.
- The Volunteer Statue (The Torchbearer)
- Torch Night
- The Hill
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