•The University of Tennessee at Martin was founded in 1900 as Hall-Moody Institute.
•UT Martin is the only public four-year institution in West Tennessee outside of Memphis and achieved a record enrollment of 7,173 students for fall semester 2007.
•UT Martin is listed as a top-tier university among southern, master's level institutions in the 2008 edition of America's Best Colleges compiled by U.S.News & World Report.
•PrincetonReview.com lists UT Martin among the "Best in the Southeast" for 2007.
•Institutional Research & Evaluation Inc. lists UT Martin among America’s 100 Best College Buys.
•UT Martin is among the safest campuses in Tennessee among four-year public institutions based on crime statistics released by the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation.
•More than 95% of UT Martin’s graduates find jobs or are accepted to graduate schools within six months of graduation.
•UT Martin is one of two public institutions in the state offering an athletic training education program at the undergraduate level.
•UT Martin offers the only dance education teaching option in Tennessee.
•UT Martin is home to two Tennessee Governor’s Schools: the Tennessee Governor’s School for the Humanities and the Tennessee Governor’s School for the Agricultural Sciences.
•UT Martin serves as the executive center of the Southern Consortium of the American Democracy Project (ADP-South).
•More than $70 million in capital improvement and renovation projects are under way at UT Martin, including projects that will span now to 2010.
•UT Martin has center locations in Jackson, Parsons, Ripley and Selmer.
•The largest dual-credit program among public 4-year institutions in Tennessee is based out of the UT Martin Jackson Center.
•UT Martin is home to the WestStar Leadership Program, Tennessee’s first regional leadership program that began in 1989.
WestStar boasts almost 500 living graduates.
•UT Martin generated $118 million in income in the region during the 2005-06 fiscal year.
•UT Martin was one of five finalists for Best Practices by the Southern Association of College and University Business Officers at the SACUBO annual meeting, April 2008, in New Orleans. The university’s in-house text messaging system and auto-dialer system to communicate with students earned the Best Practices recognition.
•The university’s Regional Entrepreneurship and Economic Development (REED) Center provides consulting services for existing and prospective entrepreneurs and supports economic development in rural Northwest Tennessee.
•UT Martin has the only collegiate rodeo team in Tennessee. The men’s rodeo team is the reigning Ozark Region champion and has won 27 titles in the past 34 years.
•UT Martin student, Terrill Orton, and staff member, Steve Lemond, received 2008 Harold Love Community Service Awards from the Tennessee Higher Education Commission. These recognitions bring the total to 24 UT Martin students, faculty and staff members recognized by the Love Community Service Awards programs.
•Nationally known alumni include: Pat Head Summitt (’74), UT Lady Vols head basketball coach; Leonard Hamilton (’71), Florida State Seminoles head basketball coach; Jerry Reese (’87, ’88), senior vice president and general manager of the New York Giants; and William (Bill) Rhodes (’87), president and CEO of AutoZone.
