Tennessee State University

Tennessee State University

school, Nashville-Davidson, Tennessee, United States
      public, coeducational institution of higher learning in Nashville, Tennessee, U.S., part of the State University and Community College System of Tennessee. A historically black university, it still has a largely African American enrollment. Tennessee State is a land-grant (land-grant college) school and consists of colleges of Arts and Sciences, Business, Education, and Engineering and Technology and schools of Agriculture and Home Economics, Nursing, and Graduate Studies and Research; the School of Allied Health Professions is administered jointly with Meharry Medical College, also in Nashville. The university offers a range of undergraduate and graduate degree programs. There are also doctoral programs in education, psychology, biological science, and public administration. Total enrollment exceeds 8,000.

      The university was created by a 1909 act of the state legislature and opened in 1912 as the Agricultural and Industrial State Normal School. It became a four-year teachers' college in 1922 and awarded its first bachelor's degree in 1924; university standing was granted in 1951. The university absorbed the University of Tennessee at Nashville in 1979. Notable graduates include Olympic athletes Ralph Boston (Boston, Ralph), Wilma Rudolph (Rudolph, Wilma), and Wyomia Tyus (Tyus, Wyomia) and talk-show host Oprah Winfrey (Winfrey, Oprah).

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