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.