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Contact Information:
The University of Tennessee
Conference Center Building
600 Henley Street, Suite 208
Knoxville, Tennessee 37996-4126 USA
| Phone: | 865-974-5134 or Toll Free: 1-800-670-8657 | | Fax: | 865-974-4684 |
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 Program Overview
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For over 75 years, the University of Tennessee (UT) has been extending continuing education services and programming resources through a department designed specifically to address the lifelong learning needs of its students. This division has evolved over time, but its mission has remained constant – to provide educational opportunities to non-traditional students.
With breakthroughs in communication technologies, UT is pushing the boundaries of distance, time and accessibility to reach out to students wherever they are. Through programs offered in a variety of modes, continuing education helps people of all ages achieve degrees and certificates, accomplish professional development goals, and pursue recreational and intellectual interests.
Distance Education and Independent Study, in conjunction with academic colleges and departments, coordinates educational opportunities designed primarily for working professionals unable to attend classes on the Knoxville campus. Online, CD-ROM and correspondence offerings allow students to earn college (graduate and undergraduate) and professional development credits, satisfy continuing education requirements, and work toward degrees.
The constraints of a traditional university program, frequent travel away from home and work, and difficulty accessing resources has made the quest for additional professional skills or an advanced degree a frustrating endeavor. With UT's Live Online classes, these barriers no longer exist. Courses offered by the university's Live Online Delivery System shatter old boundaries with breakthrough technology solutions designed to keep students near their families and careers while acquiring new professional skills.
Internet classes use audio and shared computer screens that put students online with faculty and classmates nationwide, and offer a level of convenience unmatched in any other degree program.
Live Online classes are real-time so students see and hear everything as it happens. This Internet-based interactive media also features online notes, quizzes and discussion boards accessible to students and faculty anytime. Audio/video playbacks or recordings of previous class sessions are available over the Internet during the semester.
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| Highlights
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- The University of Tennessee ranks among the top 30 percent of national public universities, according to US News & World Report's 2008 college and university rankings. UT has been listed among the top 45 public universities two years in a row
- Kaplan Publishing ranked UT as one of the nations top 25 "cutting edge schools"
- Among UT's faculty and alumni are seven Rhodes Scholars, six Pulitzer Prize winners, a Nobel Laureate, and 11 astronauts
- Eight UT programs and departments are listed in the US News & World Report rankings of top graduate programs. They are logistics, social work, law, education, audiology, civil engineering, materials engineering and physical therapy
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| University Statistics
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| Year Founded: | 1794 | | Total Enrollment: | 29,937 | | Undergraduate Enrollment: | 21,369 | | Graduate Enrollment: | 8,568 | | Distance Education Enrollment: | 2,540 |
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| Institute Overview
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The University of Tennessee, Knoxville buzzes with energy, ideas and optimism. Professors and students from throughout the world live and work in a friendly, safe campus community located in scenic East Tennessee.
Founded in 1794, UT Knoxville is part of the University of Tennessee System, a statewide institution governed by a 26-member Board of Trustees appointed by the governor of Tennessee.
The Institutions that make up the UT System are: UT Knoxville, UT Health Science Center in Memphis, UT Chattanooga, UT Martin, UT Space Institute in Tullahoma, UT Institute of Agriculture, and the UT Institute for Public Service.
UT is accredited by the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools to award baccalaureate, master's and doctoral degrees.
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| Program Delivery and Student Support
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Online, CD-ROM and correspondence offerings allow students to earn college, and professional development credits, satisfy continuing education requirements and work toward graduate degrees.
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| Delivery Mode
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- Internet-based: Live Online and Web Asynchronous
- Email
- Correspondence
- Enhanced Courses
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