TICUA Highlights |
Overview
- TICUA membership includes 2 two-year colleges, 32 four-year colleges and universities, and 3 professional colleges.
Participation
- More than 66,500 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 28% of the undergraduate students attending TICUA member colleges and universities are 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, $.01 goes to students attending private colleges and universities through the Tennessee Student Assistance Award (TSAA) grant. This funding reaches close to 3,800 low-income students a year at an average award amount of about $4,300.
- In 2007-08, nearly 9,000 students attending TICUA institutions received the TELS award.
- In 2007-08, more than one-quarter of all undergraduate students attending TICUA member institutions received the Federal Pell Grant award. The average yearly award amount for these students totaled over $3,200.
Tuition and Fees
- Undergraduate tuition and fees at TICUA member colleges and universities average 28% less than the national average to attend a private college or university.
Degree Completion
- TICUA institutions award more masters, doctoral, and first-professional degrees than any other sector in the state.
- In 2006-07, our colleges and universities graduated more than 3,000 business and management leaders, 3,000 educators, and 1,800 health care professionals.

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