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April 2, 2019

Presentation to Higher Education Subcommittee

• f the House Education Committee

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Tennessee Tech At-A-Glance

• Enrollment: 10,186 (9,006 undergraduate; 1,180 graduate)

– 3,853 STEM (23.5% female)

• Degrees conferred: 2,564 (2,173 undergraduate; 391 graduate)
• Graduation rate: 55.1%
• Retention rate: 75%
• Average ACT score for incoming freshmen: 24.4
• $16.4 million sponsored research
• Economic impact on State of Tennessee, 2015-2016: $936 million

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Return on Investment

• MONEY and SMARTASSET graphic
• PayScale (ranking of any public university in Tennessee)

– Highest return-on-investment – Highest early career pay – Second-highest mid career pay

• U.S. News & World Report

– Tech graduates leave with the least debt in Tennessee

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Recent and Future Programs

• Accountancy
• Data Science
• Cybersecurity
• Sustainable Agriculture
• Vehicular Engineering
• Engineering Management

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Rural Reimagined

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Wall Street Journal

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Need for new engineering building

• Tennessee Tech is truly a STEM university: six of our top 10

undergraduate programs are STEM disciplines and nearly 40 percent of our undergraduate students are in a STEM field, with 28 percent of our total undergraduates in the College of Engineering.

• The College of Engineering currently serves more than 2,700

students, a 52 percent increase over the last 10 years.

• And it is not just enrollment. It is outcomes. Last year, Tennessee

Tech awarded almost a quarter of the total bachelor’s degrees in engineering and computer science from public universities in Tennessee.

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Need for new engineering building

• Tennessee Tech is truly a STEM university: six of our top 10

undergraduate programs are STEM disciplines and nearly 40 percent of our undergraduate students are in a STEM field, with 28 percent of our total undergraduates in the College of Engineering.

• The College of Engineering currently serves more than 2,700

students, a 52 percent increase over the last 10 years.

• And it is not just enrollment. It is outcomes. Last year, Tennessee

Tech awarded almost a quarter of the total bachelor’s degrees in engineering and computer science from public universities in Tennessee.

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Need for new engineering building

• Tech’s College of Engineering is housed in 8 buildings across

campus, the most recent being built in 1971, and all, despite spot renovations and upgrades, reaching the end of their life cycle.

• Current buildings provide 206,000 assignable square feet. Based
• n the college’s current size, more than 257,000 square feet are

needed, leaving a deficit of more than 51,000 square feet to meet current needs. And more than 100,000 square feet will be needed when considering projected growth of the college.

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