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The University of Tennessee (also known as UT), sometimes called the University of Tennessee, Knoxville (UT Knoxville, or UTK) is the flagship institution of the statewide land-grant
Land-grant university

Land-grant universities are institutions of higher education in the United States that have been designated by each state to receive the benefits of the Morrill Land-Grant Colleges Act....
 University of Tennessee
University of Tennessee system

The University of Tennessee system is one of two public university systems in the U.S. state of Tennessee. It consists of three primary campuses in Knoxville, Tennessee, Chattanooga, Tennessee and Martin, Tennessee, a medical campus in Memphis, Tennessee and a research institute in Tullahoma, Tennessee....
 public university
Public school

The term public school has two distinct meanings depending on the location of usage:* in the United States, Australia and Canada: A school funded from tax revenue and most commonly administered to some degree by government or local government agencies....
 system in Tennessee
Tennessee

Tennessee is a U.S. state located in the Southern United States United States. In 1796, it became the sixteenth state to join the United States....
. The system is headquartered in Knoxville
Knoxville, Tennessee

Founded in 1786, Knoxville is the third-largest city in the U.S. state of Tennessee, behind Memphis, Tennessee and Nashville, Tennessee, and is the county seat of Knox County, Tennessee....
 and includes campuses in Memphis
University of Tennessee Health Science Center

The University of Tennessee Health Science Center in Memphis, Tennessee includes the Colleges of Allied Health Sciences, University of Tennessee College of Dentistry, Graduate Health Sciences, Medicine, Nursing and Pharmacy....
, Martin
University of Tennessee at Martin

The University of Tennessee at Martin is a campus in the University of Tennessee system. Other campuses include the flagship campus in Knoxville, Tennessee, the Chattanooga, Tennessee campus, the Center for the Health Sciences in Memphis, Tennessee, and the Space Institute in Tullahoma, Tennessee....
, Tullahoma
University of Tennessee Space Institute

The University of Tennessee Space Institute, also known as UTSI, is a satellite campus of the University of Tennessee located near Tullahoma, Tennessee....
, and Chattanooga
University of Tennessee at Chattanooga

University of Tennessee at Chattanooga is a university located in Chattanooga, Tennessee, Tennessee. The university, often referred to as UTC or simply "Chattanooga" , is one of three universities and two other affiliated institutions in the University of Tennessee System....
.

Additionally, UT-Battelle
UT-Battelle

UT-Battelle, LLC is a limited liability partnership between the University of Tennessee and Battelle Memorial Institute that manages the Oak Ridge National Laboratory for the United States Department of Energy ....
, a partnership between the university and the Battelle Memorial Institute
Battelle Memorial Institute

The Battelle Memorial Institute is a private nonprofit corporation applied science and technology development company headquartered in Columbus, Ohio....
, manages Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Oak Ridge National Laboratory is a multiprogram science and technology national laboratory managed for the United States Department of Energy by UT-Battelle....
.

university traces its roots to September 10, 1794, when Blount College was chartered by the legislature of the Southwest Territory, when Knoxville was the territorial capital.






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The University of Tennessee (also known as UT), sometimes called the University of Tennessee, Knoxville (UT Knoxville, or UTK) is the flagship institution of the statewide land-grant
Land-grant university

Land-grant universities are institutions of higher education in the United States that have been designated by each state to receive the benefits of the Morrill Land-Grant Colleges Act....
 University of Tennessee
University of Tennessee system

The University of Tennessee system is one of two public university systems in the U.S. state of Tennessee. It consists of three primary campuses in Knoxville, Tennessee, Chattanooga, Tennessee and Martin, Tennessee, a medical campus in Memphis, Tennessee and a research institute in Tullahoma, Tennessee....
 public university
Public school

The term public school has two distinct meanings depending on the location of usage:* in the United States, Australia and Canada: A school funded from tax revenue and most commonly administered to some degree by government or local government agencies....
 system in Tennessee
Tennessee

Tennessee is a U.S. state located in the Southern United States United States. In 1796, it became the sixteenth state to join the United States....
. The system is headquartered in Knoxville
Knoxville, Tennessee

Founded in 1786, Knoxville is the third-largest city in the U.S. state of Tennessee, behind Memphis, Tennessee and Nashville, Tennessee, and is the county seat of Knox County, Tennessee....
 and includes campuses in Memphis
University of Tennessee Health Science Center

The University of Tennessee Health Science Center in Memphis, Tennessee includes the Colleges of Allied Health Sciences, University of Tennessee College of Dentistry, Graduate Health Sciences, Medicine, Nursing and Pharmacy....
, Martin
University of Tennessee at Martin

The University of Tennessee at Martin is a campus in the University of Tennessee system. Other campuses include the flagship campus in Knoxville, Tennessee, the Chattanooga, Tennessee campus, the Center for the Health Sciences in Memphis, Tennessee, and the Space Institute in Tullahoma, Tennessee....
, Tullahoma
University of Tennessee Space Institute

The University of Tennessee Space Institute, also known as UTSI, is a satellite campus of the University of Tennessee located near Tullahoma, Tennessee....
, and Chattanooga
University of Tennessee at Chattanooga

University of Tennessee at Chattanooga is a university located in Chattanooga, Tennessee, Tennessee. The university, often referred to as UTC or simply "Chattanooga" , is one of three universities and two other affiliated institutions in the University of Tennessee System....
.

Additionally, UT-Battelle
UT-Battelle

UT-Battelle, LLC is a limited liability partnership between the University of Tennessee and Battelle Memorial Institute that manages the Oak Ridge National Laboratory for the United States Department of Energy ....
, a partnership between the university and the Battelle Memorial Institute
Battelle Memorial Institute

The Battelle Memorial Institute is a private nonprofit corporation applied science and technology development company headquartered in Columbus, Ohio....
, manages Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Oak Ridge National Laboratory is a multiprogram science and technology national laboratory managed for the United States Department of Energy by UT-Battelle....
.

Campus

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The university traces its roots to September 10, 1794, when Blount College was chartered by the legislature of the Southwest Territory, when Knoxville was the territorial capital. In 1826, what was by then named East Tennessee College moved from Gay Street in downtown Knoxville to a 40 acre (160,000 m˛) tract named Barbara Hill (in honor of Governor Blount
William Blount

William Blount, was a United States statesman. He was a delegate to the Constitutional Convention for North Carolina, the first and only governor of the Southwest Territory, and Democratic-Republican Party U.S....
's daughter). Known to students and alumni today as simply "The Hill
The Hill (Knoxville)

The Hill is the colloquial name for the location of various academic buildings on the University of Tennessee at Knoxville's campus. It comprises the oldest part of the university, and is located at the eastern side of the campus....
," it is only a small part of the Knoxville campus but remains at the heart of UT academic life.

The University of Tennessee Anthropological Research Facility, nicknamed the "Body Farm", is located near the University of Tennessee Medical Center on Alcoa Highway
Tennessee State Route 115

State Route 115 is an east to west highway in the U.S. state of Tennessee that is 49 miles long. It begins in Blount County, Tennessee and ends in Knox County, Tennessee....
 (US 129
U.S. Route 129

U.S. Route 129 is a spur of U.S. Route 29. It currently runs for 582 miles from Knoxville, Tennessee to Chiefland, Florida at U.S. Route 19 in Florida and U.S....
). Founded by Dr. William M. Bass
William M. Bass

William M. Bass is a U.S. forensic anthropology, renowned for his research on human osteology and human decomposition. He has also assisted federal, local, and non-US authorities in the identification of human remains....
 in 1972, the Body Farm features numerous cadavers posed in various situations on a fenced plot of land. Scientists at the university study how the human body decays in differing circumstances to gain a better understanding of decomposition.

Geography of the University of Tennessee campus changed in 1998, when the university changed the name of Yale Avenue to Peyton Manning
Peyton Manning

Peyton Williams Manning is an American football quarterback for the Indianapolis Colts of the National Football League. Manning is one of only two three-time NFL MVPs....
 Pass in honor of the former Volunteer (and now Indianapolis Colts
Indianapolis Colts

The Indianapolis Colts are a professional American football team based in Indianapolis, Indiana. The team is part of the American Football Conference South Division of the American Football Conference in the National Football League ....
) quarterback
Quarterback

Quarterback is a position in American football and Canadian football. Quarterbacks are members of the offensive team and line up directly behind the center , in the middle of the Lineman ....
. Peyton Manning Pass and Phillip Fulmer
Phillip Fulmer

Phillip Fulmer is the former head coach of the Tennessee Volunteers football college football team. He coached the team from 1992 until the end of the 2008 season....
 Drive meet at the football stadium in what is commonly called a "T" intersection.

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Organization


All in all, the University of Tennessee's flagship campus in Knoxville hosts seven colleges, the Institute of Agriculture
Agriculture

Agriculture refers to the production of food and goods through farming and forestry. Agriculture was the key development that led to the rise of civilization, with the animal husbandry of domestication animals and plants creating food surpluses that enabled the development of more Population density and Social stratification societies....
, the Institute for Public Service, and several schools. The UT Health Science Center
University of Tennessee Health Science Center

The University of Tennessee Health Science Center in Memphis, Tennessee includes the Colleges of Allied Health Sciences, University of Tennessee College of Dentistry, Graduate Health Sciences, Medicine, Nursing and Pharmacy....
 at Memphis and the UT Space Institute
University of Tennessee Space Institute

The University of Tennessee Space Institute, also known as UTSI, is a satellite campus of the University of Tennessee located near Tullahoma, Tennessee....
 at Tullahoma
Tullahoma, Tennessee

Tullahoma is a city in Coffee County, Tennessee and Franklin County, Tennessee counties in the south-central part of the U.S. state of Tennessee....
 are specialized campuses but are not separate institutions. The University of Tennessee comprises these five facilities. UTK, UTC
University of Tennessee at Chattanooga

University of Tennessee at Chattanooga is a university located in Chattanooga, Tennessee, Tennessee. The university, often referred to as UTC or simply "Chattanooga" , is one of three universities and two other affiliated institutions in the University of Tennessee System....
 and UT Martin
University of Tennessee at Martin

The University of Tennessee at Martin is a campus in the University of Tennessee system. Other campuses include the flagship campus in Knoxville, Tennessee, the Chattanooga, Tennessee campus, the Center for the Health Sciences in Memphis, Tennessee, and the Space Institute in Tullahoma, Tennessee....
 form the University of Tennessee system
University of Tennessee system

The University of Tennessee system is one of two public university systems in the U.S. state of Tennessee. It consists of three primary campuses in Knoxville, Tennessee, Chattanooga, Tennessee and Martin, Tennessee, a medical campus in Memphis, Tennessee and a research institute in Tullahoma, Tennessee....
.

As of 2007, there were 300 academic programs for undergraduate students.

Students

Officially, the University of Tennessee's total enrollment in the fall semester of 2005 was 28,552, of which 23,131 were full-time students and 5,421 were part-time. Undergraduates numbered 20,286 students, while graduate students made up the balance of 8,266. UT enrolled 4,183 first-time freshmen.

Regarding enrollment by race, of UT's total enrollment, 23,092 students described themselves as white, with 2,137 Black, 725 Asian, 348 Hispanic, 112 American Indian, and 273 other/not reported. Total minority enrollment was 17.9%. Slightly more women (54.1%) attended UT than men.

By 2004, 1,082 international students had been enrolled for that year. Most of these students came from China
People's Republic of China

The People's Republic of China , commonly known as China, is the largest country in East Asia and the List of countries by population in the world with over 1.3 billion people, approximately a fifth of the world's population....
, India
India

India, officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and outlying territories by total area country by geographical area, the List of countries by population country, and the most populous liberal democracy in the world....
, and South Korea. Out-of-state U.S. residents accounted for 4,950 of the student body, most of them from Virginia
Virginia

The Commonwealth of Virginia is an United States U.S. state on the East Coast of the United States of the Southern United States. The state is known as the "Old Dominion" and sometimes as "Mother of Presidents", because it is the birthplace of Lists of United States Presidents by place of birth#By state....
, Georgia
Georgia (U.S. state)

Georgia is a U.S. state in the United States and was one of the original Thirteen Colonies that revolted against United Kingdom rule in the American Revolution....
, and North Carolina
North Carolina

North Carolina is a U.S. state located on the Atlantic Seaboard in the southeastern United States. The state borders South Carolina and Georgia to the south, Tennessee to the west and Virginia to the north....
. The remaining 21,732 students already resided in Tennessee, with most previous in-state residents coming from Knox
Knox County, Tennessee

Knox County is a County in the U.S. state of Tennessee. Its 2007 population was estimated at 423,874 by the United States Census Bureau. Its county seat is Knoxville, Tennessee, as it has been since the creation of the county....
, Shelby
Shelby County, Tennessee

Shelby County is a county located in the U.S. state of Tennessee. The county is the state's largest in terms of both population and geographic area....
, and Davidson
Davidson County, Tennessee

Davidson County is a county located in the U.S. state of Tennessee. As of 2000, the population was 569,891. The 2007 Census Estimate placed the population at 619,626....
 counties.

History

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At the legislature of the Southwest Territory
Southwest Territory

The Southwest Territory, formally known as the Territory South of the River Ohio, was a historic, organized territory of the United States corresponding to modern-day Tennessee....
 meeting in the territorial capital, Knoxville, the University of Tennessee was chartered on September 10, 1794 as Blount College. The college struggled for 13 years with a small student body and faculty. In 1807, the school was renamed East Tennessee College; however, when its first president and only faculty member died in 1809, the school was temporarily closed. It reopened in 1820, and in 1840 was elevated to East Tennessee University.

In the midst of the Civil War
American Civil War

The American Civil War , also known as the War Between the States and several Naming the American Civil War, was a civil war in the United States....
 the cohesiveness of the college became torn as students and faculty left to join both the Union and Confederate forces, their divided loyalties reflecting those of East Tennessee itself. The college buildings were occupied by troops from both sides and were sometimes used as hospitals. Shelling significantly damaged the grounds. The president, who took the college's reins in 1865, was a Union sympathizer, and he managed to secure some $18,500 in restitution funds from the federal government.

Then, following the Civil War, the State of Tennessee made the University the beneficiary of the Morrill Act of 1862, which allocated federal land or its monetary value to the various states for the teaching of "agricultural and mechanical" subjects and to provide military training to students. Thus, the University of Tennessee (its designation after 1879) became a land-grant institution. In 1893, the university admitted women regularly for the first time.

The first African American
African American

African Americans or Black Americans are citizens or residents of the United States who have origins in any of the Black people populations of Africa....
s were admitted to the graduate and law schools by order of a federal district court in 1952. The first master's degree was awarded to a black student in 1954, and the first doctoral degree (Ed.D.) in 1959. Black undergraduates were not admitted until 1961; the first black faculty member was appointed in 1964. Integration went fairly smoothly; Black students had more difficulty gaining entry to eating establishments and places of entertainment off campus than they did attending class on campus. Overall, Knoxville and the University had fewer racial troubles in the 1950s and 1960s than did other southern universities.

In 1968, the university underwent an administrative reorganization which left the Knoxville campus as the flagship and headquarters of its new "university system," comprising the UT Health Science Center at Memphis, a four-year college at Martin
Martin, Tennessee

Martin is a city in Weakley County, Tennessee, Tennessee, United States. Martin is the home of the University of Tennessee at Martin. The population was 10,515 at the United States Census, 2000....
, the formerly private University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
University of Tennessee at Chattanooga

University of Tennessee at Chattanooga is a university located in Chattanooga, Tennessee, Tennessee. The university, often referred to as UTC or simply "Chattanooga" , is one of three universities and two other affiliated institutions in the University of Tennessee System....
 (added a year later), the UT Space Institute at Tullahoma, and the Knoxville-based College of Veterinary Medicine, Agriculture Institute, and Public Service Institute. An additional primary campus in Nashville
Nashville, Tennessee

Nashville is the Capital of the U.S. state of Tennessee and the county seat of Davidson County, Tennessee. It is the second most populous city in the state after Memphis, Tennessee....
 had a brief existence from 1971 to 1979 before it was ordered closed and merged with Tennessee State University
Tennessee State University

Tennessee State University is a comprehensive, urban, coeducational land-grant university founded in 1912. TSU is the only state-funded Historically black colleges and universities in Tennessee....
.

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R&D and facilities

The major hub of research at the University of Tennessee is Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), one of the largest government laboratories in the United States. ORNL is a world class supercomputing powerhouse, featuring one of the world's most powerful civilian supercomputers. The University is also connected to the Open Science Grid which for example allows physicists
Tennessee High Energy Physics Group

The Tennessee High Energy Physics Group is located at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, TN. It has greatly benefited over the years from its close proximity and special relationship with Oak Ridge National Laboratory ....
 to process data from the Large Hadron Collider
Large Hadron Collider

The Large Hadron Collider is the List of accelerators in particle physics#Hadron colliders particle accelerator, intended to Collider opposing Charged particle beam, of either protons at an energy of 7 TeV/particle, or lead nuclei at an energy of 574 TeV/nucleus....
 in Geneva
Geneva

Geneva is the second-most-populous city in Switzerland and is the most populous city of Romandie . Situated where the Rh?ne River exits Lake Geneva , it is the capital of the Canton of Geneva....
. Also at ORNL is the world's most powerful neutron source, which images everything from complex proteins to nanoparticles. Other academic centers of research and scholarship associated or affiliated with the university are:
  • Oak Ridge National Laboratory
    Oak Ridge National Laboratory

    Oak Ridge National Laboratory is a multiprogram science and technology national laboratory managed for the United States Department of Energy by UT-Battelle....
  • Howard H. Baker, Jr. Center for Public Policy
    Howard H. Baker, Jr. Center for Public Policy

    The Howard H. Baker, Jr. Center for Public Policy, located at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, Tennessee, is a non-partisan organization, which emphasizes better understanding of government and greater appreciation for the importance of public service....
  • John C. Hodges library at The University of Tennessee
    John C. Hodges library at The University of Tennessee

    The John C. Hodges Library is the main library of the University of Tennessee.Opened in 1969 , the library houses 3 million library volumes, periodicals, and computer resources....
  • Clarence T. Jones Observatory
  • Tennessee High Energy Physics Group
    Tennessee High Energy Physics Group

    The Tennessee High Energy Physics Group is located at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, TN. It has greatly benefited over the years from its close proximity and special relationship with Oak Ridge National Laboratory ....
  • University of Tennessee Space Institute
    University of Tennessee Space Institute

    The University of Tennessee Space Institute, also known as UTSI, is a satellite campus of the University of Tennessee located near Tullahoma, Tennessee....
  • Spallation Neutron Source
    Spallation Neutron Source

    The Spallation Neutron Source is an accelerator-based neutron source being built in Oak Ridge, Tennessee , USA, at the site of Oak Ridge National Laboratory by the United States Department of Energy ....
  • Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences
    Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences

    The Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences was the first to open of the five Nanoscale Science Research Centers the United States Department of Energy sponsors....
  • National Transportation Research Center
    National Transportation Research Center

    For the sigma N-transcription factor activator protein in prokaryotes, see NtrCThe National Transportation Research Center is an institution, located in Knoxville, Tennessee, that conducts research and development aimed at increasing the efficiency and safety of transportation systems and reducing their energy utilization and effects...
  • K-25 Gaseous Diffusion Plant
    K-25

    The K-25 plant, located on the southwestern end of the Oak Ridge, Tennessee reservation, used the gaseous diffusion method to enriched uranium by separating uranium-235 from uranium-238....
  • Y-12 National Security Complex
    Y-12 National Security Complex

    The Y-12 National Security Complex is a United States Department of Energy National Nuclear Security Administration facility located in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, near the Oak Ridge National Laboratory....
  • American Museum of Science and Energy
    American Museum of Science and Energy

    The American Museum of Science and Energy is a science museum in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, designed to teach both children and adults about energy, especially nuclear power....
  • University of Tennessee Arboretum
    University of Tennessee Arboretum

    The University of Tennessee Arboretum is a research and educational arboretum operated by the University of Tennessee Agricultural Experiment Station....
  • University of Tennessee Anthropological Research Facility


National rankings

The University of Tennessee is ranked among the top 40 public universities of America. Specialty rankings are:

  • 1 UT's Physician Executive MBA program of the College of Business Administration according to Modern Physician.
  • 1 UT MBA program in alumni value (value for the money) three years after graduation, according to Financial Times Global Business School Rankings.
  • 1 Winningest College Basketball Coach in history.
  • 2 UT's College of Architecture
    Architecture

    The term architecture can refer to a process, a profession or documentation.As a process, architecture is the activity of designing and construction buildings and other physical structures by a person or a computer, primarily to provide shelter....
     and Design out of Southern Universities according to Design Intelligence.
  • 2 The supply chain management/logistics programs as published in Supply Chain Management Review
    Supply Chain Management Review

    Supply Chain Management Review is a U.S.-based business management magazine published by Reed Business Information. SCMR covers analysis and trends in supply chain management....
    .
  • 3 UT graduate program in printmaking by U.S. News & World Report.
  • 5 UT MBA program overall among U.S. Public Universities according to Wall Street Journal 2005.
  • 5 Best Athletic Facilities according to the Princeton Review.
  • 6 UT's senior executive MBA program in alumni goal achievement and satisfaction, according to the Financial Times
    Financial Times

    The Financial Times is a United Kingdom international business newspaper. It is a morning daily newspaper published in London and is printed at 24 sites....
    .
  • 7 The pharmacy
    Pharmacy

    Pharmacy is the health profession that links the health sciences with the chemistrys, and it is charged with ensuring the safe and effective use of medication....
     program, according to U.S. News & World Report.
  • 9 UT Health Science Center Department of Ophthalmology
    Ophthalmology

    Ophthalmology is the branch of medicine which deals with the Eye diseases and Eye surgery of the visual pathways, including the eye, brain, and areas surrounding the eye, such as the lacrimal system and eyelids....
     by Ophthalmology Times.
  • 9 UT's Athletic Program by the Hall of Fame
    Hall of Fame

    A hall of fame is a type of museum established for any a field of endeavor to honor individuals of noteworthy achievement in that field.In some cases, these halls of fame consist of actual halls or museums which enshrine the honorees with sculptures, plaques, and displays of memorabilia....
    's ranking of Top Collegiate Athletic Programs.
  • 9 Best Parties according to Playboy Magazine.
  • 10 UT College of Law, in the National Jurist Best School for the Money ratings, and the clinical training specialty is ranked 19th while the college's overall graduate program is ranked 53rd in the U.S.
  • 10 UT's Nuclear Engineering
    Nuclear engineering

    Nuclear engineering is the application of the breakdown of atomic nucleus and/or other sub-atomic physics, based on the principles of nuclear physics....
     graduate program, according to U.S. News and World Report.
  • 10 The supply chain management/logistics programs in the UT College of Business Administration, according to U.S. News & World Report
    U.S. News & World Report

    U.S. News & World Report is an influential United States newsmagazine published in Washington, D.C. Along with Time and Newsweek, it was for many years a leading news weekly, although it focused more than its counterparts on political, economic, health and education stories....
    .
  • 15 Most Fraternity & Sorority friendly according to the Princeton Review.
  • 16 Least Tolerant of Homosexuality
    Homosexuality

    Homosexuality refers to human sexual behavior or same-sex attraction between people of the same sex or to homosexual orientation. As a sexual orientation, homosexuality refers to "having sexual and romantic attraction primarily or exclusively to members of one?s own sex"; "it also refers to an individual?s sense of personal and social identi...
     according to the Princeton Review (note: UT's one of only 3 public universities within the top 16, the other 12 are private religiously affiliated universities).
  • 19 Most Athletic
    Athletic

    Athletic may refer to:* An athlete, or sportsperson* Athletic director, a position at many American universities and schools* Athletic type, a physical/psychological type in the classification of Ernst Kretschmer...
     Student Body according to the Princeton Review.
  • 25 Most Attractive Student Body by AOL Time Warner's PopCrunch Magazine.
  • 26 UT's College of Social Work, according to U.S. News & World Report.
  • 35 UT's College of Education, Health and Human Science.
  • 45 UT Master of Fine Arts program by U.S. News & World Report.
  • The John C. Hodges Library ranks among the top 30 public research libraries of the United States.
  • The Joel A. Katz Law Library in the UT College of Law is ninth best in the nation according to National Jurist magazine.
  • The University of Tennessee is ranked as a Best Southeastern College by the Princeton Review.


The University of Tennessee is the only university in the nation to have three presidential papers editing projects. The university has collections of the papers of all three U.S. presidents from Tennessee—Andrew Jackson, James K. Polk, and Andrew Johnson.
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Budget

  • University of Tennessee:
    • Research Budget (2004):
      • Main campus: $109,525,996
      • Institute of Agriculture: $26,987,367
      • Experiment Station: $9,262,186
      • Extension: $14,000,673
      • Veterinary Medicine: $3,724,508
      • Institute for Public Service: $5,882,079
      • Space Institute: $2,552,297
      • Total: $307.9 million (2006)
    • Total Budget: $1.4 Billion (2006)


  • Oak Ridge National Laboratory
    Oak Ridge National Laboratory

    Oak Ridge National Laboratory is a multiprogram science and technology national laboratory managed for the United States Department of Energy by UT-Battelle....
     (operated jointly by The University of Tennessee and Battelle Memorial Institute
    Battelle Memorial Institute

    The Battelle Memorial Institute is a private nonprofit corporation applied science and technology development company headquartered in Columbus, Ohio....
    ):
    • Research budget: $1.06 Billion (2006)
    • Total Budget: $2.5 Billion (2004)


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Athletics


Football

Tennessee competes in the Southeastern Conference
Southeastern Conference

The Southeastern Conference is a college athletic conference headquartered in , which operates in the Southern United States part of the United States....
's Eastern Division, along with Florida
Florida Gators football

The Florida Gators American football team represents the University of Florida in the Southeastern Conference's Eastern division. They play their home games on Florida Field in Ben Hill Griffin Stadium in Gainesville, Florida....
, Georgia
Georgia Bulldogs football

The Georgia Bulldogs football team represents the University of Georgia in American football. The Bulldogs are a member of the Southeastern Conference and are frequently a top-25 team....
, Kentucky
Kentucky Wildcats

The Kentucky Wildcats are the men's and women's college athletics teams representing the University of Kentucky , a founding member of the Southeastern Conference....
, South Carolina
South Carolina Gamecocks

The University of South Carolina's 19 varsity sports teams are known as the Gamecocks, and USC is the only Division I school to use this nickname/mascot....
, and Vanderbilt
Vanderbilt Commodores football

The Vanderbilt Commodores football program is a college football team that represents Vanderbilt University. The team currently competes in NCAA Division I FBS National Football Championship as a member of the Southeastern Conference....
, and has longstanding football
American football

American football, known in the United States and Canada simply as football, is a competitive team sport known for mixing strategy with physical play....
 rivalries with all of them. However, the Vols' most intense and bitter rivalry is with Alabama
Alabama Crimson Tide football

The Alabama Crimson Tide football program is a college football team that represents the University of Alabama . The team currently competes in NCAA Division I FBS National Football Championship as a member of the Southeastern Conference....
. The teams battle every year in the Third Saturday in October. The Volunteers won the 1998 NCAA Division I-A National Championship in football. Also, the Volunteers won the 1938, 1940, 1950, 1951, and 1998 National Championship three under General Neyland, and six total. The Volunteers were coached by Phillip Fulmer
Phillip Fulmer

Phillip Fulmer is the former head coach of the Tennessee Volunteers football college football team. He coached the team from 1992 until the end of the 2008 season....
 and play at Neyland Stadium
Neyland Stadium

Neyland Stadium is a sports stadium in Knoxville, Tennessee, Tennessee. It serves primarily as the home of the Tennessee Volunteers football team, but is also used to host large conventions and has been a site for several NFL exhibition games with the last between the Washington Redskins and Houston Oilers during the Oilers transition to Nash...
, which averages over 107,000 fans per game. On November 3, 2008, Phillip Fulmer held a press conference indicating that he would be stepping down as head coach at the end of the year. This decision is speculated to have stemmed from poor University support because of a disappointing season. Lane Kiffin
Lane Kiffin

Lane Monte Kiffin , is the head coach of the Tennessee Volunteers football college football team.He was previously the head coach of the Oakland Raiders of the National Football League, and the offensive coordinator of the USC Trojans football....
 was officially announced as the new head coach of the Vols on December 1, 2008. Super Bowl champion Peyton Manning
Peyton Manning

Peyton Williams Manning is an American football quarterback for the Indianapolis Colts of the National Football League. Manning is one of only two three-time NFL MVPs....
 and the late NFL Hall of Fame player Reggie White
Reggie White

Reginald Howard "Reggie" White was a professional American football player who played defensive end for 17 seasons in the National Football League for the Philadelphia Eagles, Green Bay Packers and Carolina Panthers becoming one of the most decorated players in NFL history....
 are among the numerous NFL athletes to start their careers at the University of Tennessee.

Basketball


Men's
The men's basketball program is headed by Bruce Pearl
Bruce Pearl

Bruce Dean-Fredrick Pearl is an United States college basketball coach who currently serves as the head coach of the University of Tennessee men's basketball team....
. Through his guidance, the men's program has been revitalized and claimed the 2005–2006 SEC East Title and closed the season with a 22-8 record and a NCAA Tournament berth. In 2007, the Vols made the NCAA tourney for the second straight year, making it to the Sweet Sixteen. In 2008 the Vols claimed their first outright SEC regular season championship in 41 years. One of the highlights of the 2008 season came when number 2 UT knocked off top-ranked Memphis
Memphis Tigers basketball

The Memphis Tigers basketball team represents the University of Memphis in National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I men's college basketball....
, who was then undefeated, to claim the number one ranking in the nation-only to lose it in their next game, three nights later at Vanderbilt
Vanderbilt Commodores men's basketball

The Vanderbilt Commodores men's basketball team represents Vanderbilt University in the Eastern Division of the Southeastern Conference . The Commodores have won three SEC regular season titles ....
. In men's basketball
Basketball

Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five active players each try to score points against one another by propelling a basketball through a 10 feet  high hoop under organized rules....
, the most important rivalries are with Kentucky
Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball

The Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball team, representing the University of Kentucky, is the List: Most All time victories in Men's College Basketball in the history of college basketball, both in all-time wins and all-time winning percentage, with an all-time record of 1982-625-1.Kentucky also leads the NCAA in NCAA Men's Division I Tourname...
, Florida
Florida Gators men's basketball

The Florida Gators men's basketball team represents the University of Florida in National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I competition, in which they are a member of the Southeastern Conference's Eastern Division....
 and cross-state rivals Vanderbilt and Memphis.

Women's
Tennessee has the strongest women's basketball team at the college level, having won eight NCAA Division I titles (1987, 1989, 1991, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2007, 2008), the most in women's college basketball history. The Lady Volunteers
Tennessee Lady Volunteers basketball

The Tennessee Lady Volunteers basketball team is one of the most prominent teams in U.S. women's college basketball basketball. Coached by Pat Summitt, the team has been a contender for national titles for over thirty years, having made every NCAA Women's Division I Basketball Championship tournament since the NCAA began sanctioning women's s...
 are led by Pat Summitt
Pat Summitt

Pat Head Summitt is the Coach of the Tennessee Lady Volunteers basketball team. She has been coaching since 1974, all with the Lady Vols, winning 8 national championships....
, who is the all-time winningest basketball coach in NCAA history, having won 1000 games as of February 5, 2009. Coach Summitt also boasts a 100 percent graduation rate for all players who finish their career at UT. Former Tennessee Lady Vols basketball star Candace Parker
Candace Parker

Candace Nicole Parker is an All-American basketball player for the Women's National Basketball Association's Los Angeles Sparks. She was drafted to the team from Tennessee in 2008 WNBA Draft....
 went No. 1 in the WNBA draft and is being called the possibly best woman to ever play basketball. Tennessee and Summitt also have a rivalry
Sports rivalry

A sports rivalry is intense competition between athletic teams or athletes. This pressure of competition is felt by players, coaches, and management, but is perhaps felt strongest by the fan s....
 with the University of Connecticut
Connecticut Huskies

The Connecticut Huskies, also known as the UConn Huskies, are the athletic teams of the University of Connecticut. The school is a member of National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I and the Big East Conference for all sports except Men's Ice Hockey and Women's Ice Hockey ....
 in women's basketball. These two schools have consistently fought great games against each other
UConn-Tennessee rivalry

The women's basketball sports rivalry between the University of Tennessee Lady Vols and the University of Connecticut Huskies is one of the fiercest sports rivalry in college basketball, and perhaps the only one to reach national consciousness out of the women's game....
 in recent years, occasionally with the national championship on the line. The regular season rivalry games ended in 2007 when Tennessee decided to not sign a contract continuing them. The main women's basketball rivals for Tennessee within the conference are Georgia
Georgia Lady Bulldogs basketball

The Georgia Lady Bulldogs basketball team represents the University of Georgia in basketball. The Lady Bulldogs are a member of the Southeastern Conference....
, Vanderbilt
Vanderbilt

or the Vanderbilt familyVanderbilt is the name of:*Vanderbilt, California, a former US gold-mining town*Vanderbilt, Michigan, a US village...
, and LSU
LSU Lady Tigers basketball

The LSU Lady Tigers basketball team represents Louisiana State University in National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I women's college basketball....
. Tennessee is the only school to make the Sweet Sixteen in all 26 of the women's NCAA tournaments.

Baseball

The University of Tennessee baseball team has reached the NCAA College World Series four times (1951, 1995, 2001 and 2005). They have produced players such as Todd Helton
Todd Helton

Todd Lynn Helton is the starting first baseman for the Colorado Rockies of Major League Baseball.Helton is a 5-time Major League Baseball All-Star Game, 4-time Silver Slugger Award, 4-time National League Player of the Month and 3-time Gold Glove winner....
, Joe Randa
Joe Randa

Joseph Gregory Salvatore Randa is a former Major League Baseball player. He was primarily a third baseman during his career....
, Chris Burke
Chris Burke

Chris Burke may refer to:*Chris Burke , an American actor*Chris Burke , a Major League Baseball player for the San Diego Padres*Chris Burke , a Scottish professional footballer...
, and the number one overall pick in the 2006 MLB
Major League Baseball

Major League Baseball is the highest level of play in American professional baseball. Specifically, Major League Baseball refers to the organization that operates the National League and the American League, by means of a joint organizational structure that has developed gradually between them since 1903 ....
 Draft, Luke Hochevar
Luke Hochevar

Luke Anthony Hochevar is a Major League Baseball starting pitcher for the Kansas City Royals. While attending Fowler High School , he was the 2A Player of the Year ....
.

Softball

In recent years the women's softball team has gained notoriety, reaching the Women's College World Series
Women's College World Series

The Women's College World Series is the final portion of the NCAA Women's Softball Tournament for college softball in the United States. The tournament format consists of two four-team double-elimination brackets....
 three consecutive times. They placed third in 2005 and 2006 and second in 2007. Former pitcher Monica Abbott
Monica Abbott

Monica Cecilia Abbott is an United States athlete who pitched for the University of Tennessee Lady Volunteers softball team from 2004-2007. She is currently under contract with National Pro Fastpitch's Washington Glory and took the year 2008 off to participate in the Beijing Olympics with Team USA....
 is the all-time career NCAA leader in strikeouts (2,440), shutouts (112), wins (189) and innings pitched (1448.0). The Salinas, California
Salinas, California

Salinas is the county seat and largest municipality of Monterey County, California in the U.S. state of California. The most current estimate from the California Department of Finance, places the 2006 population at 148,350, showing a small decline since 2000....
, native won the U.S. Softball National Player of the Year award and the Honda Award for Softball in 2007. She was also honored by the Women's Sports Foundation
Women's Sports Foundation

The Women's Sports Foundation "is an educational nonprofit organization founded in 1974 by tennis legend Billie Jean King." Its stated mission statement is "To advance the lives of girls and women through sports and physical activity."...
 as its Team Sport Player of the Year over such high-profile candidates as Kristine Lilly
Kristine Lilly

Kristine Marie Lilly is an United States football player, who has been a fixture on the United States women's national soccer team since 1987 and is currently the captain of the team....
 of the U.S. women's soccer team
United States women's national soccer team

The United States Women's National Soccer Team is operated by the United States Soccer Federation. The team has won two FIFA Women's World Cups ; three Football at the Summer Olympics and six Algarve Cups ....
 and Lauren Jackson
Lauren Jackson

Lauren Elizabeth Jackson is an Australian professional basketball player. She is often called LJ or Loz. She is a forward/centre with the Seattle Storm of the WNBA, the Australian national team Australia women's national basketball team and, until 2006, the Canberra Capitals of the Australian WNBL....
 of the WNBA
Women's National Basketball Association

The Women's National Basketball Association has 13 teams and is an organization governing a professional basketball league for women in the United States....
.

Recent National Fastpitch Coaches Association (NFCA) All-Americans from the University of Tennessee include Abbott (2004–07), India Chiles (2007), Lindsay Schutzler (2005–07), Tonya Callahan (2006–07), Kristi Durant (2005–06) and Sarah Fekete (2005–06).

Facilities

UT's best-known athletic facility by far is Neyland Stadium
Neyland Stadium

Neyland Stadium is a sports stadium in Knoxville, Tennessee, Tennessee. It serves primarily as the home of the Tennessee Volunteers football team, but is also used to host large conventions and has been a site for several NFL exhibition games with the last between the Washington Redskins and Houston Oilers during the Oilers transition to Nash...
, home to the football team, which seats over 107,000 people and is one of the country's largest facilities of its type. Neyland is currently undergoing a renovation costing over $200 million. The Volunteers and Lady Vols basketball teams play in Thompson-Boling Arena
Thompson-Boling Arena

Thompson-Boling Arena is a 21,000 seat multi-purpose arena on the campus of the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, Tennessee. The arena opened in 1987....
, the largest arena (by capacity) ever built specifically for basketball in the United States. The former home of both basketball teams, Stokely Athletic Center
Stokely Athletic Center

The Stokely Athletic Center is an on-campus arena located at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, Tennessee. It currently houses the women's volleyball team, but prior to the building of Thompson-Boling Arena, it also housed the men's and women's basketball teams starting in 1966....
, still stands and is now used by the Lady Vols volleyball program. Both basketball teams currently train at the Pratt Pavilion, a $20 million dollar facility that recently opened in 2008. Pratt Pavilion houses two full size gymnasia, one each for the men's and women's varsity basketball teams, as well as space for sports medicine, strength training, film study and recruiting.

The Alumni Memorial Gym was another indoor athletic facility. It was built in 1934 during a construction campaign under school president James D. Hoskins, and was replaced by the Stokely Athletics Center in 1967. The facility hosted the Southeastern Conference
Southeastern Conference

The Southeastern Conference is a college athletic conference headquartered in , which operates in the Southern United States part of the United States....
 men's basketball tournament in 1936 and 1937 and again in 1939 and 1940. It is now used as a performing arts center and lecture hall, as well as hosting offices, and seats 1,000 spectators.

The swimming program trains at the Jones Aquatic Center, which is located adjacent to the existing Student Aquatic Center. This first-class complex is capable of hosting the Southeastern Conference and NCAA Championships, as well as national and international events. Also included in the new facility is a weight room, training room, and the University of Tennessee Swimming and Diving Hall of Fame.

Activities


Global Finals

The University of Tennessee is the current holder of the Destination Imagination
Destination ImagiNation

Destination ImagiNation Inc., or DI is a creative problem solving organization for youth and adults. Destination ImagiNation's educational goals are to foster creative and critical thinking, to develop teamwork, collaboration and leadership skills, and to nurture research and inquiry skills involving both creative exploration and atte...
 Global Finals.Destination Imagination is a problem solving competition. Global Finals are held in the last week of May every year. Thousands of people from all over the world come to participate.

Clubs and organizations

The University of Tennessee has over 450 registered student organizations. These groups appeal to a multitude of interests and provide a variety of experiences for those interested in service, sports, arts, social activities, government, politics, cultural issues, Greek societies, and much more.

University students are active in several student media organizations. The Daily Beacon is an editorially independent student newspaper
Student newspaper

A student newspaper is a newspaper run by students of a university, high school, middle school, or other school. These papers traditionally cover local and, primarily, school or university news....
 that has been published continuously since 1906. The university operates two radio station
Radio station

This article is about radio broadcasting, for other uses see Radio .Radio broadcasting is an audio broadcasting service, traditionally broadcast through the air as radio waves from a transmitter to an antenna and a thus to a receiving device....
s: student-run The Rock (formerly the Torch) (WUTK-FM
WUTK-FM

WUTK-FM is an independent, non-commercial college radio station owned by the University of Tennessee and operated by the UT Department of Journalism and Electronic Media in Knoxville, Tennessee....
 90.3 MHz) and National Public Radio
National Public Radio

National Public Radio is a privately and publicly funded non-profit membership media organization that serves as a national Radio syndication to 797 public radio List of NPR stations in the United States....
 affiliate
Affiliate

An affiliate is a commerce entity with a relationship with a peer group or a larger entity....
 WUOT-FM 91.9 MHz. The university's first radio station was on the AM frequency 850 kHz, a donation from Knoxville radio station WIVK-AM/FM. The Phoenix, a literary art magazine, is published in the fall and spring semesters
Academic term

An academic term is a division of an academic year, the time during which a school, college or university holds classes. These divisions may be called 'terms', 'semesters', academic quarter , or 'trimesters', depending on the institution and the country....
 and showcases student artistic creativity. The is an online news publication of the School of Journalism and Electronic Media and is a collaboration of regular editorial staff and student contributors, many of which receive classroom credit for their work.

The Daily Beacon
The editorially independent student newspaper
Student newspaper

A student newspaper is a newspaper run by students of a university, high school, middle school, or other school. These papers traditionally cover local and, primarily, school or university news....
 of the University publishes 15,000 copies a day, five days a week, and has a staff of over 100 which includes an editorial team of 14, more than 60 staff writers, photographers, copyeditors, and other staff members during the Fall and Spring semesters
Academic term

An academic term is a division of an academic year, the time during which a school, college or university holds classes. These divisions may be called 'terms', 'semesters', academic quarter , or 'trimesters', depending on the institution and the country....
. The paper publishes twice a week during the summer semester
Academic term

An academic term is a division of an academic year, the time during which a school, college or university holds classes. These divisions may be called 'terms', 'semesters', academic quarter , or 'trimesters', depending on the institution and the country....
 (May through August) and has significantly fewer staff writers during the summer.

The publication is part of a tradition which goes back in the semi-monthly publication of The University Times-Prospectus in 1871. The Orange and White followed in 1906 as a weekly publication and was later published semi-weekly. The Daily Beacon was established 61 years later under the management of alumnus David Hall (1965) and was published four times per week. Not long after, the paper began publishing issues five times a week. It publishes approximately 180 issues per academic year while classes are in session.

Religious institutions

Numerous religious centers are located on the campus, including the University of Tennessee's Christian Student Fellowship, the Knoxville campus' Non-Denominational
Non-denominational Christianity

In Christianity, the term non-denominational refers to those churches that have not formally aligned themselves with an established religious denomination, or remain otherwise officially autonomous....
 Protestant Christian group, the Wesley Foundation
Wesley Foundation

A Wesley Foundation is a United Methodist campus ministry sponsored in full or in part by the United Methodist Church on a non-church owned and operated campus....
 (a United Methodist student center), Pope John XXIII (a Catholic student center), and the Christian Student Center. One campus religious organization, the Baptist Collegiate Ministry, frequently participates in a number of campus events that are traditionally exclusive to fraternities and sororities, including All-Sing, Carnicus, and the Delta Gamma Anchor Splash. Numerous other Christian clubs also exist on campus, which meet in various locations. Multiple other religions are represented as well.

Greek life

UT is home to 17 sororities and 27 fraternities. Thirteen of these fraternities currently have on-campus fraternity houses. Sorority houses will be constructed in the next few years.

Sororities
As of 2006, UT boasts 13 National Panhellenic Conference (NPC)
National Panhellenic Conference

The National Panhellenic Conference , founded in 1902, is an umbrella organization for 26 national women's Fraternities and sororities.Each member group is autonomous as a social, Greek alphabet society of college women and Alumnus/a....
 sororities. Chi Omega
Chi Omega

Chi Omega is a women's Fraternities and sororities and the largest member of the National Panhellenic Conference. Chi Omega boasts 174 active collegiate chapters and hundreds of alumnae chapters....
 first came to UT in 1900 followed in 1902 by Alpha Omicron Pi
Alpha Omicron Pi

Alpha Omicron Pi is an international Fraternities and sororities that was founded on January 2, 1897 at Barnard College on the campus of Columbia University in New York....
. Both organizations remain on the campus to this day. Currently the campus claims chapters of the following NPC sororities:
  • Chi Omega
    Chi Omega

    Chi Omega is a women's Fraternities and sororities and the largest member of the National Panhellenic Conference. Chi Omega boasts 174 active collegiate chapters and hundreds of alumnae chapters....
     1900
  • Alpha Omicron Pi
    Alpha Omicron Pi

    Alpha Omicron Pi is an international Fraternities and sororities that was founded on January 2, 1897 at Barnard College on the campus of Columbia University in New York....
     1902
  • Zeta Tau Alpha
    Zeta Tau Alpha

    Zeta Tau Alpha is a women's Fraternities and sororities, founded October 15, 1898 at what used to be State Female Normal School but is now known as Longwood University in Farmville, Virginia....
     1904
  • Phi Mu
    Phi Mu

    Phi Mu is the second oldest female fraternities and sororities established in the United States. It was founded at Wesleyan College in Macon, Georgia....
     1908
  • Alpha Delta Pi
    Alpha Delta Pi

    Alpha Delta Pi was founded May 15 1851 at Wesleyan College in Macon, Georgia making it the first female fraternal organization established. The Executive office for this sorority is located on Ponce de Leon Avenue in Atlanta, Georgia....
     1920
  • Delta Delta Delta
    Delta Delta Delta

    Delta Delta Delta , also known as Tri Delta, is an international collegiate women's fraternity founded on November 27, 1888. With 136 chapters in the United States and Canada it is one of the largest women's organizations in the world....
     1923
  • Sigma Kappa
    Sigma Kappa

    Sigma Kappa is a fraternities and sororities founded in 1874 at Colby College in Waterville, Maine. Sigma Kappa was founded by five women: Mary Caffrey Low Carver, Elizabeth Gorham Hoag, Ida Mabel Fuller Pierce, Frances Elliott Mann Hall and Louise Helen Coburn....
     1924
  • Kappa Delta
    Kappa Delta

    Kappa Delta was the first sorority founded at the Longwood University , in Farmville, Virginia. It is one of the "Farmville Four" sororities founded at the universities ....
     1925
  • Delta Zeta
    Delta Zeta

    Delta Zeta is a college sorority founded on October 24, 1902, at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. Today, Delta Zeta has 158 collegiate chapters in the United States and over 200 alumnae chapters in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada....
     1933
  • Delta Gamma
    Delta Gamma

    Delta Gamma is one of the oldest, largest and prestigious women's fraternities and sororities in the United States and Canada, with its Executive Offices based in Columbus, Ohio, Ohio....
     1947
  • Pi Beta Phi
    Pi Beta Phi

    Pi Beta Phi is an international Fraternities and sororities founded as I.C. Sorosis on April 28, 1867, at Monmouth College in Monmouth, Illinois....
     1948
  • Alpha Epsilon Phi
    Alpha Epsilon Phi

    Alpha Epsilon Phi is a Jewish-centered Fraternities and sororities and member of the National Panhellenic Conference. It was founded on October 24, 1909 at Barnard College in New York City by seven Jewish women; Helen Phillips Lipman, Ida Beck Carlin, Rose Gerstein Smolin, Augustina "Tina" Hess Solomon, Lee Reiss Leibert, Rose Salmowitz Marv...
     1948 (Inactive since 1977)
  • Alpha Xi Delta
    Alpha Xi Delta

    Alpha Xi Delta was founded on April 17, 1893 by ten women at Lombard College, Galesburg, Illinois, who shared a vision of an organization dedicated to the personal growth of women....
     1958 and 1996 (Inactive since May 2006)
  • Alpha Chi Omega
    Alpha Chi Omega

    Alpha Chi Omega is a women's Fraternities and sororities founded on October 15, 1885. Currently, there are over 135 chapters of Alpha Chi Omega at colleges and universities across the United States and over 200,000 lifetime members....
     1961
  • Alpha Gamma Delta
    Alpha Gamma Delta

    Alpha Gamma Delta is an international women's fraternities and sororities founded in 1904 at Syracuse University. The Fraternity promotes academic excellence, philanthropic giving, ongoing leadership and personal development, and a spirit of loving sisterhood....
     1961 (Inactive)
  • Gamma Phi Beta
    Gamma Phi Beta

    Gamma Phi Beta is an international sorority that was founded on November 11, 1874, at Syracuse University in Syracuse, New York, New York. The term "sorority," meaning sisterhood, was coined for Gamma Phi Beta by Dr....
     1965 (Inactive since 1977)
  • Kappa Kappa Gamma
    Kappa Kappa Gamma

    Kappa Kappa Gamma is a college Fraternities and sororities, founded at Monmouth College, Illinois. Although the groundwork of the organization was developed as early as 1869, the 1876 Convention voted on October 13, 1870 as Founders Day, because no earlier charter date could be determined....
     1967
  • Kappa Alpha Theta
    Kappa Alpha Theta

    Kappa Alpha Theta is an international women's fraternities and sororities founded on January 27, 1870 at DePauw University. Kappa Alpha Theta was the first Greek-letter women's fraternity....
     1969 (Inactive since 1985)


Sororities at UT do not have houses, but have space in the Panhellenic Building. The Panhellenic Building houses 14 of the 17 social sororities at UTK. Although the building is not a residence hall facility, each sorority has a suite consisting of a large living room, a kitchen, an office, and a storage area. The Panhellenic Affairs Office is located on the first floor of the building and serves as the center for coordinating all sorority activities. The office staff and student leaders are readily available to provide information concerning Panhellenic Council, any of the individual sororities, or the rush / recruitment registration process.

In addition to NPC sororities, UT also has 3 National Pan Hellenic Council (NHPC)
National Pan-Hellenic Council

The National Pan-Hellenic Council is a collaborative organization of nine historically African American, international greek alphabet fraternities and sororities....
 sororities: Alpha Kappa Alpha
Alpha Kappa Alpha

Alpha Kappa Alpha is the first Greek alphabet sorority established and incorporated by African American college women. The sorority was founded on January 15, 1908, at Howard University in Washington, D.C., by a group of nine students, led by Ethel Hedgeman Lyle....
, Delta Sigma Theta
Delta Sigma Theta

Delta Sigma Theta is a non-profit Greek-lettered sorority of college-educated women who perform public service and place emphasis on the African American community....
, and Zeta Phi Beta
Zeta Phi Beta

Zeta Phi Beta is an international, historically black Greek-lettered fraternities and sororities and a member of the National Pan-Hellenic Council....
. These sororities are governed by the Black Greek Letter Council. UT also has a chapter of Lambda Theta Alpha
Lambda Theta Alpha

Lambda Theta Alpha is a sorority founded in December 1975 at Kean University in Union, New Jersey and has since grown to over 100 chapters nationwide....
 of the National Association of Latino Fraternal Organizations as well as Gamma Sigma Sigma
Gamma Sigma Sigma

Gamma Sigma Sigma is a national Service fraternities and sororities sorority founded in October 1952 at Beekman Tower in New York City. by representatives of Boston University, Brooklyn College, Drexel University,Los Angeles City College, New York University, Queens College, and the University of Houston....
 National Service Sorority.
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Fraternities
North-American Interfraternity Conference (NIC)
North-American Interfraternity Conference

The North-American Interfraternity Conference , is an association of college men's fraternities that was formally organized in 1910, although it began on November 27, 1909....
 fraternities at UT have an average size of 56 members. Sixteen campus fraternities have their own houses on campus.

NIC fraternities
  • Alpha Epsilon Pi
    Alpha Epsilon Pi

    Alpha Epsilon Pi is the only international Jewish college fraternities and sororities in North America, with 140 chapters in the United States and Canada, and over 7,000 active undergraduates....
  • Alpha Gamma Rho
    Alpha Gamma Rho

    Alpha Gamma Rho is a social/professional fraternity in the United States, with 72 university chapters. Though primarily a social organization, its members pride themselves on their affiliations to the life sciences and agricultural sciences....
  • Alpha Tau Omega
    Alpha Tau Omega

    ATO is an American Leadership Fraternities and sororities that annually ranks among the top ten national fraternities for number of chapters and total number of members....
  • Beta Theta Pi
    Beta Theta Pi

    Beta Theta Pi is a social collegiate fraternities and sororities that was founded at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, USA, where it is part of the Miami Triad which includes Phi Delta Theta and Sigma Chi....
  • Chi Phi
    Chi Phi

    The 'Chi Phi' Fraternity is an American college social fraternities and sororities that was established as the result of three separate organizations that each were known as Chi Phi....
     (Inactive as of Fall 2000, Recolonizing Fall 2008)
  • Delta Tau Delta
    Delta Tau Delta

    Delta Tau Delta is a United States-based international Fraternities and sororities.Delta Tau Delta was founded in 1858 at Bethany College , Bethany, West Virginia ....
     (Inactive as of Fall 2005, Recolonized Spring 2008)
  • Delta Upsilon
    Delta Upsilon

    Delta Upsilon is the 6th oldest international, all-male, college, Greek alphabet social fraternities and sororities and is the first non-secret fraternity ever founded....
     (Inactive as of Spring 1995)
  • FarmHouse
    FarmHouse

    FarmHouse Fraternity International, Inc. is an all-male international social fraternities and sororities founded at the University of Missouri?Columbia on April 15th, 1905....
  • Kappa Alpha Order
    Kappa Alpha Order

    Kappa Alpha Order is an American social fraternity and fraternal order. Kappa Alpha Order has 131 active chapters with more than and 149,000 initiated members....
     (Rechartered Spring 2008)
  • Kappa Sigma
    Kappa Sigma

    ?S is an international fraternities and sororities with currently 216 chapters and 29 colonies in North America. There have been more than 250,000 initiates, of which more than 182,500 are living and more than 12,000 are undergraduates....
     (Rechartered Spring 2008)
  • Lambda Chi Alpha
    Lambda Chi Alpha

    For a list of prominent members of Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity, see: List of notable members of Lambda Chi AlphaLambda Chi Alpha , headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana, is a member of the North-American Interfraternity Conference and one of the largest men's general Fraternities and sororities in North America, by its own count...
  • Phi Gamma Delta
    Phi Gamma Delta

    Phi Gamma Delta is a collegiate social Fraternities and sororities with 107 chapters and 7 colonies across the United States and Canada. It was founded at Washington & Jefferson College, Pennsylvania in 1848 and its headquarters are located in Lexington, Kentucky, Kentucky, USA....
  • Phi Delta Theta
    Phi Delta Theta

    Phi Delta Theta is an international Fraternities and sororities founded in 1848 and headquartered at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. Phi Delta Theta, Beta Theta Pi, and Sigma Chi form the Miami Triad....
  • Phi Kappa Psi
    Phi Kappa Psi

    Phi Kappa Psi Fraternity is an American Fraternities and sororities....
  • Phi Kappa Tau
    Phi Kappa Tau

    Phi Kappa Tau is a United States national Fraternities and sororities....
  • Phi Sigma Kappa
    Phi Sigma Kappa

    Phi Sigma Kappa is a social Fraternities and sororities devoted to three cardinal principles: the Promotion of Brotherhood, the Stimulation of Scholarship, and the Development of Character....
  • Pi Kappa Alpha
    Pi Kappa Alpha

    Pi Kappa Alpha International Fraternity is an international, secret, social, Greek alphabet, college fraternities and sororities. It was founded at 47 West The Range at the University of Virginia in the United States on Sunday evening, March 1 1868....
  • Pi Kappa Phi
    Pi Kappa Phi

    Pi Kappa Phi is an United States social Fraternities and sororities. It was founded by Andrew Alexander Kroeg, Jr., Lawrence Harry Mixson, and Simon Fogarty, Jr....
  • Sigma Alpha Epsilon
    Sigma Alpha Epsilon

    Sigma Alpha Epsilon was founded March 9, 1856 at the University of Alabama. SAE is the largest social college fraternity by total initiates with more than 288,000 initiated members....
     (Rechartered)
  • Sigma Chi
    Sigma Chi

    Sigma Chi is one of the largest and oldest all-male, college, greek alphabet social fraternities and sororities and a secret society. Sigma Chi was founded on June 28, 1855 at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio when members split from Delta Kappa Epsilon....
  • Sigma Nu
    Sigma Nu

    SN is an undergraduate college fraternity with chapters in the United States and Canada. Sigma Nu was founded in 1869 by three cadets at the Virginia Military Institute in Lexington, Virginia, Virginia....
  • Sigma Phi Epsilon
    Sigma Phi Epsilon

    SF? , commonly nicknamed SigEp, is a secret letter, social college Fraternities and sororities for male college students in the United States....
  • Tau Kappa Epsilon
    Tau Kappa Epsilon

    Tau Kappa Epsilon is a college fraternities and sororities founded on January 10th, 1899 at Illinois Wesleyan University with chapters in the United States, and Canada, and affiliation with a German fraternity system known as the Corps of the Weinheimer Senioren Convent ....
     (Inactive)


NPHC fraternities, governed by the National Pan-Hellenic Council (NPHC)
  • Alpha Phi Alpha
    Alpha Phi Alpha

    Alpha Phi Alpha is the first intercollegiate Fraternities and sororities established by African Americans. Founded on December 4, 1906, on the campus of Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, Alpha Phi Alpha has initiated over 185,000 men into the organization and has been open to men of all races since 1940....
  • Phi Beta Sigma
    Phi Beta Sigma

    Phi Beta Sigma is a predominantly African-American Fraternities and sororities which was founded at Howard University in Washington, D.C. on January 9, 1914, by three young African-American male students....
  • Kappa Alpha Psi
    Kappa Alpha Psi

    Kappa Alpha Psi is a collegiate Greek alphabet Fraternities and sororities with a predominantly African American membership. Since the fraternity's founding on January 5, 1911 at Indiana University Bloomington, the fraternity has never limited membership based on color, creed or national origin....
  • Omega Psi Phi
    Omega Psi Phi

    Omega Psi Phi is an international Fraternities and sororities and was the first African-American national fraternal organization to be founded at a Historically Black colleges and universities....
  • Iota Phi Theta


NALFO (National Association of Latino Fraternal Organizations) Fraternities
  • Lambda Theta Phi
    Lambda Theta Phi

    Lambda Theta Phi was founded on December 1, 1975 at Kean College in Union, New Jersey. Lambda Theta Phi is a non-profit Fraternities and sororities emphasizing Latin unity and the celebration of the Latin culture....


Other Fraternities
  • Phi Eta Sigma
    Phi Eta Sigma

    Phi Eta Sigma is an United States freshman honor society. Founded at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign on March 22, 1923, is the oldest and largest freshman honor society and now has more than three hundred chapters throughout the United States and more than 800,000 members....
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Traditions

The University of Tennessee, as the second-oldest institution of higher learning in Tennessee, the 29th oldest in the United States, and the oldest secular college west of the Appalachian Mountains
Appalachian Mountains

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, has accumulated numerous traditions over its long history. Former university historian Milton M. Klein summarizes the history behind many school traditions on .

Colors

Charles Moore, president of the university's athletic association, chose orange and white for the school colors on April 12, 1889. His inspiration is said to have come from orange and white daisies
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 which grew on the Hill. To this day there are still orange and white flowers grown outside the University Center. Although students confirmed the colors at a special meeting in 1892, dissatisfaction caused the colors to be dropped. No other acceptable colors were agreed to, however, so the colors were reinstated one day later. Orange and white have remained the university colors since.

Pride of the Southland Band


The Pride of the Southland Band (or simply The Pride) is UT's marching band. As one of the oldest institutions at the University, the Band partakes in many of the game day traditions. At every home game, the Pride performs the "March to the Stadium" which includes a parade sequence and climaxes when the Band stops at the bottom of the Hill and performs the "Salute to the Hill," an homage to the history and legacy of the University. The Band is known for its pregame show at the beginning of every home game, which ends with the football team running onto the field through the "Opening of the T". This is one of the most photographed moments in football. Something the Pride does every year is the famous "Circle Drill". It is performed at least twice a year, with only one home performance.

Fight song

Although it is the most famous song played by the Pride, "Rocky Top
Rocky Top

"Rocky Top" is one of seven official state songs of the state of Tennessee, as well as the unofficial fight song for the University of Tennessee Volunteers....
" is not the official fight song for the university. "Rocky Top" was written in only ten minutes by songwriters Felice and Boudleaux Bryant
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 in 1967. The Bryants were working in Gatlinburg
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 on a collection of slow-tempo songs for a project for Archie Campbell
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----Archie Campbell, was a writer and star of Hee Haw, a popular long-running Country music-flavored television variety show. He was also a recording musician with several hits on the RCA label in the 1960s....
 and Chet Atkins
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. Writing the fast-paced "Rocky Top" served as a temporary diversion for them. Known elsewhere in the United States as a bluegrass tune, the song did not become immensely popular until after 1972 when the Pride used it for one of their drills. The football crowd loved the tune and its words; the more the band played it, the more people wanted it. It has now become one of UT's best-known traditions. Its popularity extends beyond the campus of the University of Tennessee; "Rocky Top" became one of the Tennessee state songs in 1982. The popularity of the song among inebriated bar crowds was such in the 1970s that in its national tours the North Carolina old-time string band, The Red Clay Ramblers, for many years performed a satirical tune informally titled, "Play 'Rocky Top' (or I'll Punch Your Lights Out)."

The official fight song is actually "Down the Field," which is played when the Pride "Opens the T" for the team to run through at the end of their famous Pregame show, as well as when the Vols score a touchdown.

Mascot

In 1953 the campus Pep Club sponsored a contest to have a live mascot
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. The hound
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 was chosen since it is a native breed and its small stature and loud baying represent a unique combination. Announcements recruiting potential mascots in a local newspaper read, "This can't be an ordinary hound. He must be a 'Houn' Dawg' in the best sense of the word." The Rev. William C. "Bill" Brooks entered his prizewinning Bluetick Coonhound
Bluetick Coonhound

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 "Brooks' Blue Smokey," which won over the other eight contestants. Although he was the last hound to be introduced at the half-time contest, Smokey barked when his name was called. The students cheered and Smokey threw his head back and howled again and UT had its new mascot. The current mascot is Smokey IX. He is looked after by two student trainers from Alpha Gamma Rho
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, a national agricultural fraternity.

Nickname

Tennessee is known as the "Volunteer State" for the overwhelming, unexpected number of Tennesseans who volunteered for duty in the American Revolutionary War
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, the War of 1812
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, the Texas Revolution
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 (most notably the Battle of the Alamo
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) and especially the Mexican-American War, as well as an overwhelming number of citizens volunteering for both sides of the Civil War
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. A UT athletic team was dubbed the Volunteers for the first time in 1902 by the Atlanta Constitution following a football game against the Georgia Tech
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 Yellow Jackets
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. The Knoxville Journal and Tribune did not use the name until 1905. By the fall of 1905 both the Journal and the then-Sentinel
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 were using the nickname. With the creation of women's athletics later in the 20th century, female athletic teams became known as the Lady Volunteers. All varsity teams continue to use their respective nicknames today, although often shortened by cheering fans to just "Vols" and "Lady Vols."

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See also

  • John C. Hodges library at The University of Tennessee
    John C. Hodges library at The University of Tennessee

    The John C. Hodges Library is the main library of the University of Tennessee.Opened in 1969 , the library houses 3 million library volumes, periodicals, and computer resources....
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  • University of Tennessee Press
    University of Tennessee Press

    The University of Tennessee Press , founded in 1940, is a university press that is part of the University of Tennessee. The UT Press publishes, among other topics, many local and regional history books involving Appalachia....
  • Rocky Top
    Rocky Top

    "Rocky Top" is one of seven official state songs of the state of Tennessee, as well as the unofficial fight song for the University of Tennessee Volunteers....
  • UT-Battelle
    UT-Battelle

    UT-Battelle, LLC is a limited liability partnership between the University of Tennessee and Battelle Memorial Institute that manages the Oak Ridge National Laboratory for the United States Department of Energy ....
  • University of Tennessee Health Science Center
    University of Tennessee Health Science Center

    The University of Tennessee Health Science Center in Memphis, Tennessee includes the Colleges of Allied Health Sciences, University of Tennessee College of Dentistry, Graduate Health Sciences, Medicine, Nursing and Pharmacy....
  • List of forestry universities and colleges
    List of forestry universities and colleges

    This is a list of colleges and universities worldwide that offer either a Bachelor's degree or Master's degree in the profession field of forestry. Where noted, the country's Educational accreditation standard has been used and cited....


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