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The University of Tennessee - Knoxville Overview

The University of Tennessee - Knoxville is a public institution located in Knoxville, Tennessee. The location of UT Knoxville is great for students who prefer living in an urban area.

What Is The University of Tennessee - Knoxville Known For?

5,754 Undergraduate Awards
$38,663 Avg Cost After Aid
68% Acceptance Rate
  • The highest award offered at UT Knoxville is the doctor's degree.
  • In a recent academic period85% of the faculty were full-time.
  • Students who graduate from UT Knoxville with a bachelor's degree make about $60,249 a year. That's 48% more than those who graduate from other schools.

Where Is The University of Tennessee - Knoxville?

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Contact details for UT Knoxville are given below.

Contact Details
Address: 527 Andy Holt Tower, Knoxville, TN 37996
Phone: 865-974-1000
Website: www.utk.edu

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How Do I Get Into UT Knoxville?

You can apply to UT Knoxville online at: vip.utk.edu/

Admission Requirements for UT Knoxville

Submission Required?
High School GPA 1
High School Rank 3
High School Transcript 1
College Prep Program 3
Recommendations 5
SAT or ACT Scores 1
TOEFL 1

How Hard Is It To Get Into UT Knoxville?

68% Acceptance Rate
63% Of Accepted Are Women
21% Submit SAT Scores
With an acceptance rate of 68%, UT Knoxville does not let just anybody through their doors! Make sure you spend enough time polishing up your application so you will make a great impression.

Approximately 37% of accepted students are men and 63% are women. The acceptance rate for men is 66%, and the acceptance rate for women is 70%.

Average Test Scores

About 21% of students accepted to UT Knoxville submitted their SAT scores. When looking at the 25th through the 75th percentile, SAT Evidence-Based Reading and Writing scores ranged between 590 and 660. Math scores were between 580 and 670.

SAT Reading and Writing Scores for The University of Tennessee - Knoxville  ( 590 to 660 )
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800

SAT Math Scores for The University of Tennessee - Knoxville  ( 580 to 670 )
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800
UT Knoxville received ACT scores from 59% of accepted students. When looking at the 25th through the 75th percentile, ACT English scores ranged between 25 and 33. Math scores were between 24 and 0. Composite scores were between 25 and 31.

ACT English Scores for The University of Tennessee - Knoxville  ( 25 to 33 )
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ACT Composite Scores for The University of Tennessee - Knoxville  ( 25 to 31 )
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Can I Afford The University of Tennessee - Knoxville?

$38,663 Net Price
32% Take Out Loans
The overall average net price of UT Knoxville is $38,663. The affordability of the school largely depends on your financial need since net price varies by income group.

The net price is calculated by adding tuition, room, board and other costs and subtracting financial aid.

Student Loan Debt

It's not uncommon for college students to take out loans to pay for school. In fact, almost 66% of students nationwide depend at least partially on loans. At UT Knoxville, approximately 32% of students took out student loans averaging $10,094 a year. That adds up to $40,376 over four years for those students.

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The University of Tennessee - Knoxville Undergraduate Student Diversity

22,914 Full-Time Undergraduates
53% Women
19% Racial-Ethnic Minorities*
There are 24,254 undergraduate students at UT Knoxville, with 22,914 being full-time and 1,340 being part-time.

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There are also 6,305 graduate students at the school.

Gender Diversity

Of the 22,914 full-time undergraduates at UT Knoxville, 47% are male and 53% are female.

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Racial-Ethnic Diversity

The racial-ethnic breakdown of The University of Tennessee - Knoxville students is as follows.

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Race/Ethnicity Number of Grads
Asian 916
Black or African American 1,291
Hispanic or Latino 1,138
White 18,020
International Students 205
Other Races/Ethnicities 1,344

Geographic Diversity

Tennessee students aren't the only ones who study at The University of Tennessee - Knoxville. At this time, 41 states are represented by the student population at the school.

Over 84 countries are represented at UT Knoxville. The most popular countries sending students to the school are China, India, and Saudi Arabia.

The University of Tennessee - Knoxville Undergraduate Concentrations

The table below shows the number of awards for each concentration.

Major Basic Certificate Bachelor’s Graduate Certificate Master’s Doctor’s TOTAL
Business Administration & Management 0 595 0 0 0 595
Management Sciences & Quantitative Methods 0 181 0 386 15 582
Social Work 0 84 119 268 25 496
Child Development & Psychology 0 354 0 9 17 380
Health & Physical Education 0 313 0 50 9 372
Marketing 0 302 0 9 0 311
Nursing 0 239 11 0 53 303
General Biology 0 248 0 0 0 248
Finance & Financial Management 0 246 0 0 0 246
Accounting 0 126 0 78 0 204
Communication & Media Studies 0 130 0 65 8 203
Mechanical Engineering 0 143 0 23 16 182
Teacher Education Subject Specific 0 0 22 140 0 162
Political Science & Government 0 149 0 3 5 157
Computer Science 0 113 0 22 4 139
Neurobiology & Neurosciences 0 137 0 0 0 137
Human Development & Family Studies 0 96 0 35 4 135
Public Relations & Advertising 0 134 0 0 0 134
Sociology 0 111 0 4 5 120
Industrial Engineering 0 70 0 36 13 119
Civil Engineering 0 69 0 32 14 115
Animal Science 0 103 0 8 3 114
Anthropology 0 90 2 15 6 113
Law 0 0 0 0 112 112
Library & Information Science 0 0 1 107 0 108
General English Literature 0 87 0 7 8 102
Nuclear Engineering 0 46 4 29 16 95
Electrical Engineering 0 49 0 25 19 93
General Architecture 0 72 0 18 0 90
Journalism 0 86 0 0 0 86
Chemical Engineering 0 66 0 14 4 84
Biomedical Engineering 0 68 0 12 2 82
Aerospace & Aeronautical Engineering 0 61 0 17 3 81
Communication Sciences 0 80 0 0 0 80
Veterinary Medicine 0 0 0 0 79 79
Mathematics 0 40 0 25 11 76
Human Resource Management 0 37 0 29 0 66
Music 0 40 5 21 0 66
Clinical, Counseling & Applied Psychology 0 0 17 38 10 65
History 0 60 0 1 3 64
Fine & Studio Arts 0 53 0 9 0 62
Agricultural Public Services 0 16 0 44 0 60
Chemistry 0 32 0 3 24 59
Other Multi/Interdisciplinary Studies 0 58 0 0 0 58
Physics 0 28 0 9 20 57
Linguistics & Comparative Literature 0 47 0 0 4 51
Geological & Earth Sciences 0 32 0 7 11 50
Materials Engineering 0 20 0 16 10 46
Economics 0 39 0 3 3 45
Plant Sciences 0 36 0 5 3 44
Educational Administration 0 0 10 28 3 41
Business/Managerial Economics 0 40 0 0 0 40
Construction Management 0 40 0 0 0 40
Nutrition Science 0 21 0 15 1 37
Hospitality Management 0 35 0 0 1 36
Wildlife Management 0 36 0 0 0 36
Public Health 0 0 4 29 2 35
Geography & Cartography 0 22 0 4 6 32
Information Science 0 31 0 0 0 31
Interior Architecture 0 30 0 0 0 30
General Education 0 4 0 16 10 30
Agricultural Economics & Business 0 19 0 10 0 29
Soil Sciences 0 23 0 5 0 28
Family & Consumer Economics 0 28 0 0 0 28
Statistics 0 18 0 10 0 28
Forestry 0 25 0 3 0 28
Student Counseling 0 0 0 21 6 27
Computer Engineering 0 19 0 5 1 25
Special Education 0 24 0 0 0 24
Food Science Technology 0 14 0 4 5 23
Landscape Architecture 0 0 0 22 0 22
Biological & Biomedical Sciences (Other) 0 0 0 5 17 22
Drama & Theater Arts 0 12 0 9 0 21
Philosophy 0 13 0 3 3 19
Agricultural Engineering 0 15 0 2 1 18
International Studies 0 18 0 0 0 18
Public Policy 0 0 4 13 0 17
Design & Applied Arts 0 12 0 0 0 12
Sustainability Science 0 11 0 0 0 11
Engineering-Related Fields 0 0 4 6 0 10
Other Engineering 0 0 1 3 6 10
Public Administration 0 10 0 0 0 10
Microbiological Sciences & Immunology 0 0 0 1 8 9
Environmental Engineering 0 0 0 9 0 9
General Agriculture 0 0 0 0 8 8
Rehabilitation & Therapeutic Professions 8 0 0 0 0 8
Legal Professions (Other) 0 0 0 8 0 8
Natural Resource Management 0 8 0 0 0 8
Religious Studies 0 8 0 0 0 8
Ecology, Evolution & Systematics Biology 0 0 0 3 4 7
Classical Languages & Literature 0 7 0 0 0 7
Clinical/Medical Laboratory Science 0 7 0 0 0 7
Film, Video & Photographic Arts 0 7 0 0 0 7
Biochemistry, Biophysics & Molecular Biology 0 0 0 1 5 6
Ethnic Studies 0 3 3 0 0 6
Romance Languages 0 0 0 6 0 6
Management Information Systems 0 0 5 0 0 5
Writing Studies 0 0 0 5 0 5
Gerontology 0 0 4 0 0 4
Systems Theory 0 0 0 0 4 4
Instructional Media Design 0 0 3 0 0 3
Germanic Languages 0 0 0 3 0 3
Bioethics/Medical Ethics 0 0 3 0 0 3
Health & Medical Administrative Services 0 0 3 0 0 3
Natural Resources Conservation 0 0 0 0 3 3
Fire Protection 0 0 3 0 0 3
Data Science 0 0 1 0 0 1
Digital Humanities and Textual Studies 0 0 1 0 0 1
Medieval Studies 0 0 1 0 0 1
Computer Information Systems 0 0 0 0 0 0
Teacher Education Grade Specific 0 0 0 0 0 0
Teaching English or French 0 0 0 0 0 0
Engineering Science 0 0 0 0 0 0
Manufacturing Engineering 0 0 0 0 0 0
Area Studies 0 0 0 0 0 0
American Sign Language 0 0 0 0 0 0
Slavic, Baltic & Albanian Languages 0 0 0 0 0 0
Non-Professional General Legal Studies 0 0 0 0 0 0
Legal Research 0 0 0 0 0 0
Multicultural & Diversity Studies 0 0 0 0 0 0
General Psychology 0 0 0 0 0 0
International Relations & National Security 0 0 0 0 0 0
TOTAL 8 5,746 231 1,871 633 8,489

References

*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.

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