Tennessee State University (TSU) is a comprehensive, urban, co-ed land-grant university founded in 1912. A 450 acre (Unity.Viii klick²) independent campus has supplementary than 65 buildings & is located in the residential setting at 3500 John The. Merritt Blvd around Nashville, Tennessee. A Avon Williams campus is placed downtown, touching a center of the Nashville business & government territorial dominion. It has some 8750 students by having the faculty/student ratio of 17/1. This university is accredited per Commissiin on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS) to award 42 baccalaureate degrees, 21 master's degrees, likewise when them-biennial Associate of Science degree inside nursing & dental hygiene, & doctorial degrees publicly administration, administration & superintendence, programme & instruction & psychological science.

Though it wwhen organized as the Agricultural & Industrial State Normal School within 1909 & began serving students in June 19, 1912, its status was raised to a little joe-month teachers' college around 1922. It was so elevated to good-fledged land-grant university status per Tennessee State Board of Education inside 1958. When preserving a rich heritage & tradition as a historically black college, Tennessee State remains committed to the education of its student body & promotes diversity & access forgoing regard to race, gender, religion, national origin, age, handicap, or even seasoned status.

TSU projects itself to its students, faculty, & alumni & to the citizens of the State through the shibboleth, "Think, Work, Serve."