Points of Pride


Best Colleges - US NewsTennessee State University is committed to excellence and has been consistently listed in the U.S. News & World Report’s “ Guide to America’s Best Colleges ” for more than a decade.

 

Founded in 1912, TSU is a comprehensive, urban, co-educational, land-grant institution located in Nashville, Tennessee, one of the fastest-growing cities in the United States.

 

 

Academics

Technology-based Partnerships = Jobs for Graduates

Since 2000, IBM has hired 69 of our students as permanent hires, interns, or cooperative education students. The average starting salary for permanent hires has been $63,000. These students are trained in cutting-edge technologies such as e-business technologies.

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1 of 4 in the Nation

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Supply Chain Management

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#1 in Forensics

 The Pilot Center for Academic Excellence in Intelligence Studies, one of only four in the nation, prepares students for professional careers in the U.S. intelligence community.

TSU - the only HBCU in the nation to have a Supply Chain Management program at both the graduate and undergraduate levels.

 

Tennessee State has the No. 1 forensics team among black colleges in the nation - ranked 22 among all universities and third among universities of its size.

 

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DEGREES

Offering 24 graduate degrees and 42 undergraduate degrees, Tennessee State University produces outstanding engineers, nurses, teachers, and more. View degrees...
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1912

The Agricultural and Industrial Normal School of 1909 grew to become TSU. The first 247 students began their academic careers on June 19, 1912, and William Jasper Hale served as head of the school. View history...

 

TSU Graduates Become Leaders

Tennessee State graduates become local, regional, national, and international leaders:

  • Oprah Winfrey - producer/talk show host
  • Curtis Collier - chief judge, Chattanooga, TN
  • Ralph Cook - associate justice of the Alabama Supreme Court
  • Jesse Russell - pioneer in the development of cellular telephone
  • Lloyd W. Newton - 4-star general, retired as highest ranking African American in the Air Force
  • S. Allen Counter - explorer and Harvard neurophysiologist
  • Levi Watkins, Jr. - M.D. retired associate dean and cardiac surgeon at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine; implanted first defibrillator for the heart
  • Wilma Rudolph - Ralph Boston, Wymoia Tyus, and Chandra Cheeseborough, Olympic gold medalists
  • Harvey Johnson - the first African American mayor of Jackson, Mississippi
  • Xernona Clayton - retired vice president for urban affairs with Turner Broadcasting/CNN and founder/CEO of the Trumpet Awards
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Academics

Diversity in Academics

More than 8,000 students are enrolled, including more than 5,000 undergraduates from 21 countries and 27 states.

One of our five strategic goals is that of engagement - highlighting TSU's commitment to its service mission through engagement in community service, land-grant activities, and international education.

 

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U.S. Army Mine-sweeping Robots

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Phi Kappa Phi

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High Athlete Graduation Rate

Engineering students are developing robots the U.S. Army can use to sweep for mines, and a software program they developed for Boeing is saving space in airplane cockpits and other workspaces.

TSU - one of only three historically black colleges in the nation with a Phi Kappa Phi honor society, the most prestigious honor society comprising all academic disciplines.

 

Tennessee State University’s athletes have had the highest graduation rate in the Tennessee Board of Regents system and among historically black colleges and universities.

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Nashville

Nashville, TN.

TSU is located in the heart of one of the nation's HOTTEST cities. HOTTEST means jobs are a'plenty and so is fun! Learn more...