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Presentation to Higher Education Subcommittee of the House Education Committee April 2, 2019 1

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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 3

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 4

Recent and Future Programs • Accountancy • Data Science • Cybersecurity • Sustainable Agriculture • Vehicular Engineering • Engineering Management 5

Rural Reimagined • Text here 6

Wall Street Journal • Text here 7

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. 8

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. 9

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 on 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. 10

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