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The University of Tennessee is a public sun-grant and land-grant university headquartered at Knoxville, Tennessee, United States. Founded in 1794, it is the flagship institution of the statewide University of Tennessee system with nine undergraduate colleges and eleven graduate colleges and hosts almost 28,000 students from all 50 states and more than 100 foreign countries.

The University of Tennessee at Knoxville is the flagship campus of the statewide University of Tennessee system.

The University employs 1,550 full-time faculty members, of whom 57% are tenured and 81% claim a PhD or other terminal degree in their respective fields. As of the 2007-2008 academic year, 71% of courses taken featured class sizes smaller than 30 students, and students at the Knoxville campus enjoy a 16:1 ratio of faculty-to-students.