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| The '''University of Tennessee, Knoxville''' ('''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. The Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education ranks it 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 in the sciences. 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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| * Students: 36,304 (Fall 2023)<ref name="enrollment">{{cite web|title=University of Tennessee, Knoxville Fact Book |url=https://oira.utk.edu/reporting/fact-book/ |access-date=September 13, 2022}}</ref>
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| ** Undergraduate: 28,883 (Fall 2023)<ref name="enrollment"/>
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| ** Postgraduate: 7,421 (Fall 2023)<ref name="enrollment"/>
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| == Notes ==
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