The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga (UTC) was founded as Chattanooga University in 1886. The University was initially developed by the Methodist Episcopal Church and remained a private school for 83 years. In 1889, the University consolidated with another church-related school, East Tennessee Wesleyan University, under the name of Grant University. In 1907 the name University of Chattanooga was adopted. In 1969 the University of Chattanooga and a junior college, Chattanooga City College, merged with The University of Tennessee (UT), one of the oldest land-grant universities in the nation, to form the UTC campus. The Chattanooga campus of UT was given the mandate to devote the major portion of its resources to the development of excellence in undergraduate education and in selected areas of graduate study.
The University's wide diversity of degree programs has attracted a current enrollment of more than 8,500 students who represent 74 Tennessee counties, 41 states and U.S. possessions and 41 foreign countries.
UTC has developed an institutional
excellence which rests on an unusual blend of the private and public traditions
of American education.
- UTC Web site: contains all the information you could ever hope to find about UTC, it's programs, and it's people
- UTC New Student Orientation: a sneak peek of orientation week
- UTC Student Affairs: UTC student organizations, housing, recreation
- zChattanooga.com: official UTC student site with news, entertainment, sports, weather
