TRUE VIEW MTSU at a Glance Founded Sept. 11, 1911, at the geographic center of Tennessee, Middle Tennessee State University is proud of its more than 100-year com mitment to academic excellence and student success. Starting out as a teacher training institution, MTSU today is a major comprehensive university accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges. The University is composed of eight undergraduate colleges offering almost 40 departments/schools and more than 180 majors/degree programs. MTSU houses a wide variety of nationally recognized academic degree programs at the baccalaureate, master’s, and doctoral levels. The College of Graduate Studies offers more than 90 master’s and specialist’s programs and nine doctoral degrees. A comprehensive, Carnegie Doctoral-Research Intensive institution, MTSU boasts the largest student enrollment among the six locally governed institutions (LGIs). We currently enroll nearly 22,000 students, with 90% being from the state. We serve students from almost every county in Tennessee, as well as students from 48 states and 71 foreign countries. MTSU is also the state's No. 1 choice of transfer students, military veterans, adult learners (ages 25 and up), and college students attending summer school. MTSU boasts almost 1,000 full-time faculty members and nearly 3,000 full- and part-time employees. Located on a 550-acre campus, MTSU is really the equivalent of a mid-size city. The University is among the largest employers in the Nashville metropolitan statistical area and has an estimated regional economic impact in excess of $1.1 billion annually. MTSU is the largest supplier of college-degreed workers in the mid-state, providing the vibrant Music City economy and workforce with more graduates than all other local universities combined (approximately 5,000-plus each year). According to the Business and Economic Research Center at MTSU, one in every five collegeeducated individuals in the Nashville area is an MTSU graduate.
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