We Are Awesome

Here is why.

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Five students have been named Goldwater Scholars, ranking the University of Tennessee first in the country for the prestigious award.
—Barry Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation 2020
Two of our students won Boren Scholarships for intensive language study and research in Taiwan and Belarus.
—Boren Awards 2019
Four of our students were selected as Critical Language Scholars. Their studies include Chinese, Arabic, and Russian.
—Critical Language Scholarship Program 2019
A Haslam Scholar majoring in sociology was selected for the Fulbright UK Summer Institute at the University of Bristol.
—Fulbright UK Summer Institutes 2019
Our four Gilman Scholarship winners earned opportunities to study in Tanzania, Morocco, Japan, and Ireland.
—Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship Program 2020
UT’s first Mitchell Scholar will pursue a master’s degree in inclusion and special educational needs at Queen’s University Belfast in Northern Ireland.
—US-Ireland Alliance 2020
Four faculty members from the College of Architecture and Design have been chosen among the country’s most admired architecture educators in the past 7 years.
—DesignIntelligence 2019
UT student entrepreneurs won the US Chamber of Commerce Young Entrepreneur Achievement Award for their business providing campsite set-ups.
—U.S. Chamber of Commerce 2019
UT has won 23 team national championships all time including: women’s basketball, football, track and field, and swimming and diving.
—UT Athletics 2019
UT Extension’s interim assistant dean was honored with the National Excellence in Extension Award.
—USDA 2019
A student in our Institute of Agriculture won the nationally competitive Gloria Barron Wilderness Society Scholarship supporting the protection of U.S. wilderness areas.
—The Wilderness Society 2019
Alumnus James M. Buchanan was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences in 1986.
—Nobel Prize
Our Volunteer athletes and alumni have won 39 gold medals in the Olympic games.
—UT Athletics
Eight Pulitzer Prize winning writers have connections to UT. Their work includes public service, reporting, play writing, fiction, scientific research, and history.
—Pulitizer Prize
A combination of 9 UT students and alumni have earned Rhodes Scholarships for scholarly achievements, character, commitment to others, and leadership potential.
—The Rhodes Trust 2020
UT teams have won a total of 196 SEC championship titles.
—Southeastern Conference 2018
UT is one of the nation’s top-producing campuses for 2019-20 student Fulbrights. Our university ranks 7th among public research universities and 1st in the SEC.
—US Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs 2020
Four recent graduates and one current student from UT were named winners in the Global Undergraduate Awards competition.
—Global Undergraduate Awards 2019
A total of 4,223 UT Volunteers broke the world’s record for the largest human letter by forming a giant power T on the field at Neyland Stadium on March 29, 2017.
—Guiness World Records