About Tech 
Enrollment
Student enrollment has reached record numbers every year for the past nine years. Student headcount surpassed the 10,000 mark in Fall 2009 and currently stands at 10,847 students.
Value
- TTU is consistently ranked one of "America's 100 Best College Buys."
This designation, reported each year by Institutional Research & Evaluation Inc., named TTU one of the BEST college educations for the cost nationwide for 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010.
- TTU is named a "Best Value College" by The Princeton Review.
Top quality academics, low cost and exceptional financial aid service have earned TTU a spot in the 2007 and 2008 America's Best Value Colleges guidebooks published by the Princeton Review and Random House.
- TTU's average annual tuition and fees are lower than the average of all Tennessee Higher Education Commission public universities, Tennessee Board of Regents universities and Ohio Valley Conference universities.
Rankings
- TTU ranked among the “Top Public Universities” by U.S.News & World Report in its 2002, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010 America's Best Colleges Guides.
The magazine ranked TTU one of the Top Public Universities in the South
- TTU is also the only Tennessee university listed in U.S. News’ ranking of colleges whose students in the class of 2008 graduated with the lightest debt loads. According to the report, 60 percent of TTU’s students graduate debt free.
- TTU is ranked a "Best Southeastern College" by The Princeton Review for 2010.
This is the sixth consecutive year the publication 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 schools listed for all of Tennessee, TTU remains one of only five public universities to earn the designation.
- Payscale.com reports TTU degrees give grads the highest salary potential of all Tennessee public universities.
- TTU is the top public university in Tennessee when it comes to the potential salary graduates can earn when they hit the job market, according to a ranking made public recently by Payscale.com, a company that owns the largest online employee salary database in the world and specializes in compensation data.
- Payscale.com names Tennessee Tech’s College of Engineering as one of the nation’s “Best Engineering Colleges” based on salary potential for graduates. Also, professional mechanical engineering graduates named Tennessee Tech as one of the Top 20 most popular mechanical engineering schools in the country.
- The Princeton Review lists TTU’s College of Business as one of the “Best 301 Business Schools” in the nation in its 2010 guidebook
Service
- Almost 2,500 students volunteered more than 10,200 hours of their time to the community service and service learning projects.
TTU's Service Center, established to match volunteers with organizations and projects needing support, is a member of the President'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, and TTU nursing graduates achieved a higher pass rate among registered nurses taking the National Council Licensure Examination last year than the state, national and Tennessee Board of Regents averages.
