FAST FACTS
Enrollment: 26,400 — 20,400 undergrad; 6,000 graduate
Faculty & staff: 8,300, with 1,550 full-time instructional faculty (81% of whom hold a Ph.D. or other terminal degree in their field)
Campus size: 550 acres, 220 buildings
Research (dollars awarded'08): $178.7 million
Degree programs: More than 300
Degrees awarded ('05-'06): 5,700
UTK Alumni: 209,375
Young Alumni: 52,295
Founded: 1794, as Blount College
Founder: William Blount
Current Knoxville Campus Chancellor: Dr. Jimmy G. Cheek
Current University President: Dr. Jan Simek (interim)
Oldest Campus Building: South College (On the Hill)
Football Stadium: Neyland Stadium (Capacity: 102,037)
Basketball Arena: Thompson Boling Arena (Capacity: 21,000)
National Rankings:
- U.S. News and World Report ranked UT Knoxville as No. 52 among all public universities and No. 106 among all national universities for 2010.
U.S. News and World Report ranks UT graduate programs among the best in the nation for 2010. The supply chain management and logistics program is ranked ninth among all national universities. The College of Law's clinical training program is 15th nationally, and the College of Engineering's graduate program in nuclear engineering is ranked 12th nationally. The magazine ranked UT's College of Business Administration undergraduate business program 28th in the nation among public institutions and 48th among all national universities.
The Princeton Review lists UT in its 2010 edition of "The Best 371 Colleges," making the grade with just 15 percent of America's 2,500 four-year colleges chosen.
Best Value: In 2010, Kiplinger's and The Princeton Review named UT Knoxville as one of the 50 best values in higher education in the country.
High Tech: Kaplan named UT as one of the nation’s top 25 “cutting edge schools.”
Great Grades: The fall 2009 class of 3,723 entering freshmen had an average core GPA of 3.79 and a 26.5 average ACT score—the highest ever for an entering class. Forty percent of the incoming freshmen had GPAs of 4.0 or higher. There are 40 National Merit scholarship winners in the incoming freshman class.
Visit the UT Knoxville website to learn about the many ways in which UT is achieving high marks in preparing students to thrive in a global economy.
