Facts and Figures

Enrollment

Student enrollment has reached record numbers every year for the past 11 years. Student headcount surpassed the 11,700 mark for the first time in Fall 2011 and currently stands at 11,768 students.

Value

This designation, reported each year by Institutional Research & Evaluation Inc., touts TTU as one of the BEST college educations for the cost nationwide for 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011.

  • TTU's students graduate with the lightest debt load in the region, according to U.S.News & World Report.

Sixty percent of Tennessee Tech University's 2010 graduates left school debt free, and students who carried a debt after graduation owed the lowest average of any regional university in the South. Only 40 percent of TTU's 2010 graduates owed debt on their loans taken through school, including private and government loans. TTU is the only school on the South list with an average debt amount lower than $10,000.

The median salary for a Tennessee Tech graduate after an average 15 years’ experience is $76,400. That figure tops all other universities in the Tennessee Board of Regents and University of Tennessee systems. This is the second year TTU has ranked first in the category. TTU offers six of Payscale.com’s Top 10 College Majors that Lead to High Salaries: chemical engineering, computer engineering, electrical engineering, computer science, physics, and applied mathematics.

Tennessee Tech University is one of the nation's 50 "Best Value" public colleges and universities. Top quality academics, low cost and exceptional financial aid service earned TTU a spot in the 2007, 2008 and 2010 America's Best Value Colleges guidebooks published by The Princeton Review and Random House. TTU is one of only three public universities in Tennessee and the only TBR institution to make the 2010 list.

Rankings

  • TTU ranked among the “Top Public Universities” by U.S.News & World Report in its 2002, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012 America's Best Colleges Guides. Tennessee Tech also is one of the Top 15 “Public Regional Universities” in the South, according to the 2012 report.

This is the eighth consecutive year PrincetonReview.com has recognized TTU in the rankings. To qualify for inclusion, each school must meet standards for academic excellence and allow its students to participate in anonymous surveys to provide opinion-driven profiles. Of 17 Tennessee schools listed, TTU remains one of only five public universities to earn the designation.

    • The Princeton Review lists TTU’s College of Business as one of the “Best 301 Business Schools” in the nation in its 2012 guidebook.

    Service

    • TTU’s University Service Center recorded 2,816 students engaged in community service or academic service learning in the 2009-10 academic year. Those students logged almost 13,000 hours in volunteer work.

    The Service Center, established to match volunteers with organizations and projects that need support, is a member of President Barack Obama's Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll.

    Reputation

    • TTU engineering and technology graduates were recognized by 99 percent of respondents in a recent survey of employers as "excellent employees."
    • The College of Business was included in Peterson's publication of "The 237 Best Business Schools in the World."
    • TTU nursing graduates achieved a higher pass rate among registered nurses taking the National Council Licensure Examination last year, exceeding the average pass rate of state, national and Tennessee Board of Regents graduates.
    • TTU was named a military friendly university by G.I. Jobs magazine in its 2012 Guide to Military Friendly Institutions. Only 20 percent of more than 8,000 colleges and universities surveyed were included in the publication.
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