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Higher Education

Area Colleges & Universities
Information about the four-year universities serving the Nashville area, including links to their web sites.

Community Colleges and Vocational-Technical Schools
The Nashville area's community colleges and vocational-technical schools are a great place to start a career, or just take a few refresher courses.

College Enrollment by Degree
View enrollment and graduation figures for college students, broken out by subject of study.



University of the South

The University of the South, popularly known as Sewanee, is consistently ranked among the top tier of national liberal arts universities. Sewanee is committed to an academic curriculum that focuses on the liberal arts as the most enlightening and valuable form of undergraduate education. The university has an impressive record of academic achievement: 23 Rhodes Scholars and 20 NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship recipients have graduated from Sewanee. More than 70 percent of the college's students pursue graduate studies.

Undergraduates can pursue 33 majors. The course of instruction offers study abroad programs, a 3/2 engineering program with agreements at various institutions, and a natural resources program, unique among national liberal arts universities, offering instruction in natural resources, geology and forestry. One hundred percent of the permanent faculty members hold doctorates or a terminal degree within their fields, and the student-faculty ratio is 11:1.

For more information on the University of the South, see the following web sites: