Colleges in Tennessee
Solyo has full profiles for 8 colleges in Tennessee: 3 public, 5 private nonprofit. The median family here pays $24,739 a year after grant aid, $3,174 above the national median. Half of these schools admit more than 68% of applicants. They sit across 5 cities, concentrated in Nashville, Memphis, Chattanooga.
What Tennessee costs
Published in-state tuition at the median Tennessee public university is $10,728 a year before aid. Residency is worth the most at University of Tennessee-Knoxville, where an out-of-state family pays $19,444 more for the same degree.
After grants and scholarships the range runs from $12,397 at University of Memphis to $33,147 at Belmont University. That spread is the reason a sticker price is a poor way to build a list in Tennessee.
Why net price beats sticker price, and what an average one does and does not tell a particular family.
How selective Tennessee schools are
Vanderbilt University admits 6% of applicants and Belmont University admits 95%. A list drawn only from the selective end of that range has no likely school in it, which is the most common mistake in a first draft.
The highest average SAT reported in Tennessee is 1549 at Vanderbilt University.
Every Tennessee college profile
Ordered by selectivity, most selective first.
- Vanderbilt UniversityNashville, Tennessee · Private nonprofit6% acceptance · $15,846 net price · 1549 avg SAT
- University of Tennessee-KnoxvilleKnoxville, Tennessee · Public42% acceptance · $18,976 net price · 1311 avg SAT
- Rhodes CollegeMemphis, Tennessee · Private nonprofit50% acceptance · $28,585 net price · 1362 avg SAT
- Sewanee-The University of the SouthSewanee, Tennessee · Private nonprofit57% acceptance · $27,872 net price · 1344 avg SAT
- Lipscomb UniversityNashville, Tennessee · Private nonprofit68% acceptance · $24,739 net price · 1256 avg SAT
- University of MemphisMemphis, Tennessee · Public72% acceptance · $12,397 net price · 1088 avg SAT
- University of Tennessee at ChattanoogaChattanooga, Tennessee · Public81% acceptance · $14,265 net price · 1147 avg SAT
- Belmont UniversityNashville, Tennessee · Private nonprofit95% acceptance · $33,147 net price · 1280 avg SAT
Other South states
On median net price Tennessee is the 16th most affordable of the 17 South states in this directory, and the 11th most accessible on median acceptance rate. In-state pricing makes the neighbouring states worth checking too.
- Texas (17)
- Florida (12)
- Georgia (12)
- Virginia (12)
- North Carolina (11)
- Maryland (8)
- South Carolina (7)
- Alabama (7)
- Kentucky (5)
- Louisiana (3)
- Oklahoma (3)
- District of Columbia (2)
- Mississippi (2)
- Delaware (1)
- West Virginia (1)
- Arkansas (1)
Where to go next
- College search filter Tennessee and every other state by major, cost and selectivity
- How to read these numbers what each figure on a profile measures
- All 6 HBCUs in Tennessee admission rates, net price and graduate earnings
- Scholarship directory awards with published odds, filterable by state
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