unitid 221759 · Knoxville, TN · public 4-year · city (midsize)
The University of Tennessee-Knoxville
Public university in Knoxville, Tennessee, US
- founded
- 1794
- enrollment 2023
- 36,950
- predominant degree
- Bachelor's
- website
- utk.edu/
The University of Tennessee, Knoxville is a public land-grant research university in Knoxville, Tennessee, United States. Founded in 1794, two years before Tennessee became the 16th state, it is the flagship campus of the University of Tennessee system, with 14 colleges. It hosts more than 30,000 students from all 50 states and more than 100 foreign countries. wikipedia rev 1364225101 ↗
scorecard 2026-06 · percentiles within public 4-years
The record
admission rate
42%
6th pctl among public 4-years
undergraduates
30,418
94th pctl among public 4-years
Pell share
19%
undergrads on Pell grants
14th pctl among public 4-years
completion
74%
finish within 150% time
91st pctl among public 4-years
sticker cost / yr
$33,678
94th pctl among public 4-years
avg net price / yr
$18,976
after aid, aided students
88th pctl among public 4-years
median earnings, 10 yr
$60,249
after entry, Title IV students
74th pctl among public 4-years
median grad debt
$20,500
59th pctl among public 4-years
what families actually pay
Cost
Sticker price is a fiction for most families — net price is what aided students pay after grants, by family income.
Average net price by family income, 2023–24 aid cohort
Families earning under $30k paid $10,029 per year after aid.
Dashed hollow marks are privacy-suppressed brackets — not zero. Band: middle half of public 4-years (all incomes).
Who enrolls, by family income
- 0-30k24%
- 30-48k15%
- 48-75k16%
- 75-110k17%
- 110k+28%
- Median family income
- $54,206
- First-generation students
- 25%
- In-state tuition & fees
- $13,812
earnings · debt · programs
Outcomes
Median earnings after entry, working grads with federal aid
Ten years out, the median graduate earns 2.9× the median graduate debt.
Earnings cover federally aided (Title IV) students only.
What programs pay — top fields of study
| program | grads | earn 5 yr | debt |
|---|---|---|---|
| Business Administration, Management and Operations. | 595 | $79,000 | $20,500 |
| Management Sciences and Quantitative Methods. | 386 | $133,752 | — |
| Research and Experimental Psychology. | 354 | — | — |
| Sports, Kinesiology, and Physical Education/Fitness. | 313 | $61,292 | $21,500 |
| Marketing. | 302 | $62,427 | $19,500 |
| Social Work. | 268 | $53,501 | — |
| Biology, General. | 248 | $58,414 | $23,579 |
| Finance and Financial Management Services. | 246 | $78,862 | $23,250 |
| Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing. | 239 | $74,229 | $23,292 |
| Management Sciences and Quantitative Methods. | 181 | $88,397 | $25,000 |
| Political Science and Government. | 149 | $55,196 | $20,500 |
| Mechanical Engineering. | 143 | $90,860 | $23,250 |
— is privacy suppression at small programs, never zero. Earnings are median, 5 years after completing.
annual scorecard files, 1996–2026
Trajectory
Line breaks are years where the measure wasn't collected — a gap is not a zero.
Admission rate
Price per year
- sticker
- net
Median earnings, 10 yrs after entry
Undergraduates
wikidata · 2,385 people recorded
Memory
Wikidata is not an alumni census: a person appears only when volunteer editors record them. Counts measure the archive's memory - access x achievement x documentation - never placement rates or institutional quality.
Field fingerprint — share of recorded alumni by field
Women among recorded alumni, by birth decade
People without a recorded gender are excluded; decades with fewer than 5 recorded alumni are dropped.
Wikipedia attention
monthly article views since 2015
most recorded occupationsbasketball player (520) · American football player (280) · researcher (222) · politician (172) · university teacher (138) · lawyer (90) · writer (56) · baseball player (52)
Nobel laureates who studied here
- James M. Buchanan Economics 1986
The portrait wall
Sized by nothing, ordered by Wikipedia footprint (language editions).
Oprah Winfrey
134 wikis · CC BY-SA 2.0
Kurt Vonnegut
120 wikis · Public domain
Huell Howser
81 wikis · CC BY 2.0
Cormac McCarthy
73 wikis · Public domain
James M. Buchanan
66 wikis · CC BY-SA 3.0
Dixie Carter
63 wikis · Public domain
Justin Gatlin
52 wikis · CC BY 3.0 br
Peyton Manning
45 wikis · CC BY-SA 2.0
Scott Kelly
38 wikis · Public domain
Kevin Nash
37 wikis · CC BY 2.0
James Denton
34 wikis · CC BY 2.0
Logan Marshall-Green
34 wikis · CC BY 3.0
Candace Parker
33 wikis · CC BY-SA 4.0
Aries Merritt
31 wikis · CC BY-SA 3.0
Also recorded: Frank Knight.
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Provenance
- U.S. Dept. of Education College Scorecard, 2026-06 release. Earnings cover federally aided (Title IV) students only. Suppressed values are null, never imputed.
- Annual Scorecard files 1996-2026. A null in early years usually means the measure was not yet collected, not zero.
- Coordinates and locale describe the campus address, not where students live.
- Wikidata is not an alumni census: a person appears only when volunteer editors record them. Counts measure the archive's memory - access x achievement x documentation - never placement rates or institutional quality.
- Images are from Wikimedia Commons under free licenses. Render the credit line (artist + license) with every image.
- Lead text from Wikipedia (revision 1364225101), CC BY-SA 4.0.