TICUA Highlights

Overview

• TICUA membership includes 32 four-year colleges and universities, and 3 professional colleges.

Participation

• More than 71,750 students are enrolled in TICUA institutions, about half of which are students who graduated from high school in Tennessee.
• TICUA member colleges and universities enroll students from every county in the state.
• About a quarter of the undergraduate students attending TICUA member colleges and universities identify as non-white.

Affordability

• The median family income of students attending one of the state’s four-year private colleges or universities is less than the median family income of students attending one of the state’s four-year public colleges and universities.  
  
  Financial Aid
• About 88% of first-time, full-time students attending TICUA member institutions receive some form of financial aid.
• For every $1 the state spends on higher education, $.02 goes to students attending private colleges and universities through the Tennessee Student Assistance Award (TSAA) grant.  This funding reaches close to 4,480 low-income students a year at an average award amount of about $4,350.
• In 2008-09, nearly 10,800 students attending TICUA institutions received the TELS award.
• In 2008-09, more than one-quarter of all undergraduate students (14,202) attending TICUA member institutions received the Federal Pell Grant award. The average yearly award amount for these students totaled over $3,671.