Quick Facts
Students (Fall 2011)
- Enrollment: 27,379
(21,126 undergraduate and 6,253 graduate) - Enrollment by gender: 49.3 percent female and 50.7 percent male
- Average first-time freshman high school GPA: 3.87
- Average first-time freshman ACT: 26.7
- Acceptance rate: 69.7%
- Freshman retention rate: 85%
- Graduation rate (six years): 63%
- Undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio: 15 to 1
- Degrees awarded for 2010-2011: 6,518
- 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.
- Current 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: $154.39 million (FY 11)
- Research Expenditures: $153.77 million (FY 11)
- Research Centers: 53
- 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 six Fulbright Scholars (2010), a Guggenheim Fellow (2009), a MacArthur Fellow (2007) and two NEH fellows (2006 and 2007)
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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