The University
Vision
The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga will be recognized as a premiere metropolitan university, known for its outstanding undergraduate and graduate academic programs, scholarly and creative achievements, diversity and inclusiveness, and critical partnerships that take advantage of our setting to provide solutions to global concerns.
Mission
The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga is an engaged, metropolitan university committed to excellence in teaching, research, and service, and dedicated to meeting the diverse needs of the region through strategic partnerships and community involvement.
Core Values
In fulfilling our mission, we are committed to our core values:
Preparing for the Future
- The development of ethical and socially responsible leaders, professionals, scholars, and citizens
- The creation of opportunities for those who seek truth, knowledge, and higher quality of life
Education and Engagement
- Excellence in teaching within a student-focused, supportive, and challenging environment
- Achievement and national recognition in research, scholarship, and creative endeavors
- Effective partnerships that provide meaningful involvement in educational, economic, and community development
Positive Institutional Environment
- A collegial, mutually respectful, and professionally rewarding environment
- Broad diversity of people and ideas to strengthen our institution and community
- Reasonable and affordable access to quality higher education
Accreditation
The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga is accredited by the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (1866 Southern Lane, Decatur, Georgia 30033-4097. Telephone: 404-679-4501; Fax: 404-679-4558) to award bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees.
The University has also earned accreditation from the following organizations:
- Accreditation Council for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication
- Accreditation Council of Occupational Therapy Education
- Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business
- Association to Advance American Chemical Society
- Collegiate Schools of Business
- Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education
- Commission on Accreditation for Dietetics Education of the American Dietetics Association
- Commission on Accreditation in Physical Therapy Education of the American Physical Therapy Association
- Council on the Accreditation of Nursing Anesthesia Education Program
- Engineering Accreditation Commission/Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology
- National Association of Schools of Art and Design
- National Association of Schools of Music
- National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration
- National Athletic Trainers Association
- National Council of Accreditation of Teacher Education
Membership
The University is a charter member of the Southern University Conference. Additionally, memberships include the following:
- American Alumni Council
- American Council on Education
- American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education
- American Association of State Colleges and Universities
- Association for Continuing Higher Education
- Association of American Universities
- Council of Graduate Schools in the United States
- National University Extension Association
- Servicemembers Opportunity Colleges
- Tennessee College Association
Oak Ridge Associated Universities
Since 1969, students and faculty of The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga have benefited from its membership in Oak Ridge Associated Universities (ORAU). ORAU is a consortium of 98 colleges and universities and a contractor for the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) located in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. ORAU works with its member institutions to help their students and faculty gain access to federal research facilities throughout the country; to keep its members informed about opportunities for fellowship, scholarship, and research appointments; and to organize research alliances among its members.
Through the Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education (ORISE), the DOE facility that ORAU operates, undergraduates, graduates, postgraduates, as well as faculty enjoy access to a
