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| The '''University of Tennessee, Knoxville''' (or '''The University of Tennessee'''; '''UT'''; '''UT Knoxville'''; or colloquially '''UTK''' or '''Tennessee''') is a [[Public university|public]] [[Land-grant university|land-grant]] [[research university]] in [[Knoxville, Tennessee]]. Founded in 1794, two years before Tennessee became the 16th state, it is the flagship campus of the [[University of Tennessee system]], with ten undergraduate colleges and eleven graduate colleges. It hosts more than 30,000 students from all 50 states and more than 100 foreign countries. It is [[Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education|classified]] among "R1: Doctoral Universities – Very high research activity".<ref>{{cite web |title=Carnegie Classifications Institution Lookup |url=https://carnegieclassifications.iu.edu/lookup/view_institution.php?unit_id=190415 |publisher=Center for Postsecondary Education |website=carnegieclassifications.iu.edu |access-date=July 18, 2020}}</ref>
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| UT's ties to nearby [[Oak Ridge National Laboratory]], established under UT President Andrew Holt and continued under the [[UT–Battelle]] partnership, allow for considerable research opportunities for faculty and students. Also affiliated with the university are the [[Howard H. Baker Jr. Center for Public Policy]], the [[University of Tennessee Anthropological Research Facility]], and the [[University of Tennessee Arboretum]], which occupies {{cvt|250|acre}} of nearby [[Oak Ridge, Tennessee|Oak Ridge]]. The university is a direct partner of the [[University of Tennessee Medical Center]], which is one of two Level I [[trauma center]]s in [[East Tennessee]].
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| Nine of its alumni have been selected as [[Rhodes Scholar]]s and one alumnus, [[James M. Buchanan]], received the 1986 Nobel Prize in Economics. It is a top producer of [[Fulbright scholars]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Top Producing Institutions |url=https://www.fulbrightprogram.org/tpi/ |access-date=2024-04-07 |website=Fulbright |language=en-US}}</ref> UT is one of the oldest public universities in the United States and the oldest secular institution west of the [[Eastern Continental Divide]].<ref>https://timeline.utk.edu/history/category/early-years</ref>
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