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MTSU AT A GLANCE
Founded Sept. 11, 1911, at the geographic center of Tennessee, Middle Tennessee State University (MTSU) is proud of its more than 100-year commitment to academic excellence and student success.
Started 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, with more than 180 majors/degree programs available in 39 departments/schools. 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 over 90 master’s and specialist’s programs and nine doctoral degrees. MTSU features signature disciplines in accounting, aerospace, recording industry, equine studies, teacher training, industrial/organizational psychology, and concrete industry management, among others.
With more than 20,000 students and nearly 1,000 full-time faculty members, MTSU is really the equivalent of a midsize city on its beautiful, 515-acre main campus. We serve students from every county in Tennessee (90% of our students are from the state of Tennessee), as well as students from almost every state and about 70 foreign countries.
MTSU is the No. 1 choice of Tennessee transfer students and college students attending summer school, and is a leader in adult learners (ages 25 and up). MTSU’s standing as a destination of choice for first-generation students and its long success in helping low-income students who meet admission standards overcome obstacles often posed by tuition and fees are well established. In all, about 50% of MTSU’s student population receives Pell aid. MTSU’s full-time undergraduate tuition and fees of $9,592 annually remain the lowest of the state’s three largest universities.
As a community of scholars, we enthusiastically embrace our past, celebrate our present accomplishments, and effectively plan for the future.