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University of Tennessee, Knoxville

The University of Tennessee
University of Tennessee seal.png
Motto Veritatem cognoscetis et veritas te liberabit (Latin)
Motto in English
You will know the truth and the truth shall set you free.
Type Flagship public university
Established September 10, 1794 (222 years ago) (1794-09-10)
Parent institution
University of Tennessee system
Academic affiliations
APLU, ORAU, URA
Endowment $1.100 billion (2016)
Chancellor Beverly Davenport
Provost John Zomchick (Interim)
Academic staff
1,500+
Administrative staff
9,791
Students 27,845 (Fall 2015)
Undergraduates 21,863 (Fall 2015)
Postgraduates 5,982 (Fall 2015)
Location Knoxville, Tennessee, U.S.
35°57′6″N 83°55′48″W / 35.95167°N 83.93000°W / 35.95167; -83.93000Coordinates: 35°57′6″N 83°55′48″W / 35.95167°N 83.93000°W / 35.95167; -83.93000
Campus 560 acres (230 ha)
Total: 2,128 acres (861 ha)
Colors UT Orange, White
         
Nickname Volunteers & Lady Volunteers
Mascot Smokey X
Sporting affiliations
NCAA Division I FBSSEC
Website www.utk.edu
UT Knoxville logo 2015.svg
University rankings
National
ARWU 99-119
Forbes 266
U.S. News & World Report 103
Washington Monthly 193
Global
ARWU 301-400
QS 461-470
Times 251-300
U.S. News & World Report 182

The University of Tennessee (also referred to as The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, UT Knoxville, UTK, or UT) is a public sun- and land-grant university located in Knoxville, Tennessee, United States. Founded in 1794, two years before Tennessee became the 16th state to enter the Union, it is the flagship campus of the University of Tennessee system with nine undergraduate colleges and eleven graduate colleges. It hosts almost 28,000 students from all 50 states and more than 100 foreign countries. In its 2017 universities ranking, U.S. News & World Report ranked UT 103rd among all national universities and 46th among public institutions of higher learning. Seven alumni have been selected as Rhodes Scholars; James M. Buchanan, M.S. '41, received the 1986 Nobel Prize in Economics. UT's ties to nearby Oak Ridge National Laboratory, established under UT President Andrew Holt and continued under the UT–Battelle partnership, allow for considerable research opportunities for faculty and students.

Also affiliated with the university are the Howard H. Baker, Jr. Center for Public Policy, the University of Tennessee Anthropological Research Facility, and the University of Tennessee Arboretum, which occupies 250 acres (100 ha) of nearby Oak Ridge and features hundreds of species of plants indigenous to the region. The university is a direct partner of the University of Tennessee Medical Center, which is one of two Level I trauma centers in East Tennessee.

The University of Tennessee is the only university in the nation to have three presidential papers editing projects and holds collections of the papers of all three U.S. presidents from Tennessee—Andrew Jackson, James K. Polk, and Andrew Johnson. UT is one of the oldest public universities in the United States and the oldest secular institution west of the Eastern Continental Divide.


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