Tennessee State University

Comprehensive, urban, coeducational, land-grant university offering undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral degrees; founded in 1912 after its organization in 1909 as the Agricultural and Industrial State Normal School; became four-year teachers’ college in 1922; elevated to full land-grant university in 1958; absorbed University of Tennessee at Nashville in 1979.Nashville, Tennessee: state capital and second-largest city in the state, population 600,000; known as “Music City USA” and “The Athens of the South”; center of government, banking, insurance, publishing, healthcare, transportation, art, culture, and education; beautiful main campus sits on 500 acres near the Cumberland River in a residential neighborhood just 10 minutes northwest of downtown; Avon Williams Campus, in the heart of the city, is within easy walking distance of central business and government district77 majors in eight undergraduate and graduate colleges and schools; arts and sciences; business; education; engineering, technology, and computer science; health sciences; public service and urban affairs; agriculture and consumer sciences; nursing; Tennessee State University graduates the highest number of African American bachelor degree holders in agriculture, agriculture operations, and agriculture-related sciences; University’s sponsored research budget exceeds $32 million