TSU Total Facts Main Campus: Campus Center & Humanities Building ACCREDITATION: Tennessee State University is accredited by the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools to award the Associate, Bachelor''''''''s, Master''''''''s, Specialist in Education, and Doctoral degrees. Contact the Commission on Colleges at 1866 Southern Lane, Decatur, Georgia 30033-4097 or call 404-679-4500 for questions about the accreditation of Tennessee State University. HISTORY: Organized as the Agricultural and Industrial State Normal School in 1909; began serving students on June 19, 1912; raised to the status of a four-year teachers'''''''' college in 1922; elevated to full-fledged land-grant university status by the Tennessee State Board of Education in 1958. LOCATION: TSU is located in Nashville (population 600,000), the state capital and second largest city in Tennessee. Popularly known as "Music City USA" and "The Athens of the South," Nashville is a thriving center of government, banking, insurance, publishing, healthcare, art, culture, and education. FINANCIAL AID: TSU has a strong commitment to assist students seeking financial aid. Types of aid available include grants, scholarships, loans, and employment. FICE School Code: 003522. DEGREES AWARDED: 1633 CAMPUS COMPUTING: The university maintains technology-enabled classrooms, numerous computer labs located both in academic buildings and student housing, a student information portal (myTSU), and a Help Desk. All core services--including admissions, registration, and bill payment--can be conducted online. LIBRARY: The three-story Martha M. Brown/Lois H. Daniel Library has an impressive collection of resources supporting the college curriculum as well as the research needs of those in the surrounding areas. The library houses more than 420,000 books, 1500 microform titles, 1775 periodicals and a wide variety of online database services. Also included in the 82,000 square-foot building are rooms devoted to collections highlighting the university''''''''s rich and colorful history. DEGREE PROGRAMS: CAMPUS COMPUTING: The university maintains technology-enabled classrooms, numerous computer labs located both in academic buildings and student housing, a student information portal (myTSU), and a Help Desk. All core services--including admissions, registration, and bill payment--can be conducted online. • College of Arts and Sciences: Africana Studies (B.S.), Art (B.S.), Arts & Sciences, Biology (B.S., M.S.), Biological Sciences (Ph.D.), Chemistry (B.S., M.S.), Criminal Justice (B.S., M.C.J.), English (B.A., M.A.), Foreign Languages (B.A.), History (B.A.), Interdisciplinary Studies (B.I.S), Mathematics (B.S.), Mathematical Sciences (M.S), Music (B.S., M.A.), Physics (B.S.), Political Science (B.S.), Professional Studies (B.P.S.), Social Work (B.S.), Sociology (B.S.), S |