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Tennessee Tech University
 Tennessee Tech is a public, co-educational and comprehensive university located in Cookeville, a town of about 25,000 residents. With an enrollment of 9,313 and more than 50% of classes with 20 students or less, strong faculty/student relationships are a hallmark of a TTU educational experience.
Tennessee Tech is known as Tennessee's technological university, but houses seven strong academic divisions -- the College of Agriculture and Human Ecology, College of Arts and Sciences, College of Business Administration, College of Education, College of Engineering, the School of Nursing, School of Interdisciplinary Studies and Extended Education. For a welcoming campus, an affordable education, a successful career and a challenging environment -- we'll take you there.
Tennessee Tech is ranked among the Top Public Schools in the South and among the top 40 Best Universities-Master's in U.S.News & World Report's 2007 edition of "America's Best Colleges." TTU was also ranked among the Top Public Schools in the South in the 2002, 2003, 2005, 2006 and 2007 college guides. The Princeton Review named TTU as a "Best Southeastern College" for the third year in a row. And this year TTU has also been named one of "America's 100 Best College Buys."
With 44 bachelor's degree and 23 graduate programs -- including an M.B.A., Ed.S., and Ph.D. programs in education, engineering and environmental sciences -- more than 75 percent of faculty members hold Ph.D.s.
Among the 60,000-plus TTU graduates are the former president of Boeing Corp., a two-time space shuttle astronaut, a 12-time NFL pro-bowl player, a New York Times assistant managing editor, and a four-star
Tennessee Tech University History
 Before 1912, Tennessee Tech's campus was no more than a field of daisies bordered by a few dirt roads leading into the heart of Cookeville, a rural town noted mainly as a whistle stop between Nashville and Knoxville on the Tennessee Central railroad. Tennessee Tech's first faculty, in fact, made a practice of meeting all passenger trains at the depot to shepherd disembarking students to school.
Historians credit the railroad with the early development of Cookeville and the Upper Cumberland, the farthest point east in Middle Tennessee, just as they credit a handful of local community leaders with the founding of Tennessee Tech. These leaders shared dual missions: establishing Cookeville as the hub of the Upper Cumberland and creating a school of higher learning to service the region. Though their first effort to found such a school failed, they succeeded in planting the seed that would blossom into Tennessee Tech.
In 1909, the state approved the charter of a church-supported school named the University of Dixie. Popularly known as Dixie College, the school opened its doors to students in 1912. Enrollment, however, was low and funding insufficient; the college struggled to keep its doors open. In a strategic move to salvage higher education in the Upper Cumberland, the school's founders deeded the campus to the governments of Cookeville and Putnam County in 1915. Despite protests that the college be located in another part of the state, the act creating Tennessee Polytechnic Institute in Cookeville was signed into law by Gov. Thomas Rye on March 27, 1915.
It wasn't easy convincing the state's legislative and educational leadership to establish a new school in the sparsely populated Upper Cumberland. There were regional and political rivalries to overcome, as well as the hurdle of identifying the focus of the new school. What the area was already calling Tech couldn't be a comprehensive normal school, a two-year post-high school institution, because three such schools (including what would become Middle Tennessee State University) had been established in each of Tennessee's "grand divisions" in 1909. It couldn't be a teaching school, because teacher education was taken as well. It seemed likely that the new campus would be pigeonholed into no more than a prep school, and that was unacceptable to the institution's supporters. What was left to claim was technical education.
 Continue reading the history of Tennessee Tech University.
Faculty
Tennessee Tech is known for the strong, productive relationships between students and faculty. With a student/faculty ratio of 18:1, TTU maintains small classes averaging 26 students. Accessibility to professors is reinforced through regular, weekly office hours, and many also offer online access. The university employs approximately 370 full-time and 130 part-time instructional faculty members. More than 75 percent of the full-time faculty hold doctorates.
Our professors serve as media experts on topics as varied as their specialties. We have experts on terrorism, Bram Stoker's Dracula and mad cow disease, just to name a few. Faculty members have the support of the Institute of Technological Scholarship, an in-house training program to keep them up-to-date on the latest technology and web tools. The Institute ensures that faculty of all disciplines have access and training that keeps the university truly "technological."
Tennessee Tech professors regularly receive Fulbright awards for teaching and research in other parts of the world; others annually deliver invited lectures and addresses internationally. Evidence of peer recognition, a growing number of faculty have served as presidents and in other key positions of national professional and research organizations.
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Tennessee Tech University
1000 N Dixie Ave
Cookeville, TN 38505
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Phone: 931-372-3055
Fax: 931-372-6387
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