Life at Tech
When you've chosen to go to college at Tennessee Tech, you’ve made a lot of choices about where you’ll live, what you’ll see and do, and even what type of person you’ll become. Good choices…now here’s the scoop on what you’ll experience on campus beyond the classroom that will help make your college years sometimes exciting, sometimes inspiring and always memorable. Our best tip: always check the South Patio for free food, music, rock walls, poster and jewelry sales, and did we mention… free food.
Play and Cheer
If you enjoy your sports from the sidelines or would rather be on the field or court, you’ve got options.
Our football team plays Division I-FCS football, and all 16 varsity teams compete in the Ohio Valley Conference.
Our Campus Recreation staff members coordinate 11 intramural and club sports: basketball, bowling, flag football, golf, racquetball, rugby, soccer, softball, tennis, volleyball and wrestling. Our Fitness Center is a free, full-service health club for students. It houses a fully equipped weight room, 25-meter indoor pool, cardiovascular equipment and an indoor track.
Live and Learn
Beginning in 2010, you’ll be able to join a Learning Village, often known by other names such as residential colleges or communities, that will offer smaller, caring groups led by faculty within the larger community. TTU will be the first public university in the state to offer these communities in which a student can become a lifetime member.
When you are comfortable you’ve seen all the choices, you can decide what your signature experience will be at TTU. Write for the student newspaper, become a DJ at WTTU, conduct undergraduate research, help build a Habitat for Humanity house, write for the literary magazine, learn pottery at the Craft Center, join a theater production…all these experiences and more are right here on campus.
TTU’s many vibrant and successful ensembles frequently fill the calendar with free performances. These groups include the University Orchestra, concert bands and jazz ensembles, plus chorale, chorus and opera performers. Renowned guest artists and faculty members regularly perform on the Bryan Fine Arts Building stage.
The Appalachian Center for Craft showcases guest artists and its faculty is comprised of nationally and internationally renowned craft artists who are active in exhibitions, workshop presentations, publishing, and professional craft organizations, in addition to their teaching and studio work.
The professional Bryan Symphony Orchestra performs a full schedule on campus. The Joan Derryberry Art Gallery showcases national, local and campus artists.
Thousands of students have performed hundreds of plays during the 50-plus year history of the Backdoor Playhouse on campus. The theater offers audiences Sophocles, Shakespeare, Ensler and Kushner while combining scholarship and art.
Our annual international festival, Window on the World, provides a day full of sights, sounds and aromas from different cultures. The library offers an international film series, and dozens of internationally known authors, poets, musicians, and artists visit as guests of the CenterStage program.
Home to nearly 200 clubs and organizations -- including sororities, fraternities, honor societies and religious groups -- TTU provides a rich extracurricular campus experience. Get physical with the Paintball Club, Ultimate Frisbee Club or Wakeboard Club or go cerebral with the Odyssey of the Mind Club. You can sharpen your swing dancing or hone your chess skills with friends old and new.
Some groups are connected to academic programs but extend open invitations like the perennial nationally competitive Baja SAE team, the Moonbuggy team and the up-and-coming Formula SAE team.
Through the University Service Center you can join more than 2,500 students who engaged in more than 10,200 hours in volunteer work in one year.
For a complete list of clubs and organizations at Tennessee Tech, visit the Student Activities web site.
Sip some Pike Place coffee at Starbucks, grab a quick snack or have a home-style meal in the cafeteria without leaving our university center. There’s also a coffee and sandwich shop in the library to fuel your studies. In the Marketplace cafeteria, there's vegan and vegetarian choices, paninis, a salad bar, pizza and pasta, fresh baked good and menutainment at its best.
Wonder what residence hall life is like? With the New Hall South open for freshmen and New Hall North coming in 2010, you'll be living on a campus that's committed to giving you the full residential college experience. Residence halls are a social hub for activities and studying, as well as fun programming.
Visit the Office of Residential Life
