The University of Tennessee – Knoxville is a public university in TN, founded in 1794, and offers Bachelor’s degrees for undergraduates and Master’s and Doctoral degrees for graduate students. The undergraduate enrollment is 30,564, and the graduate enrollment is 8,164. The University of Tennessee is a moderately selective school, receiving 59,764 applications and accepting 42% of applicants. Its athletics teams compete at the club, intramural, and varsity levels, and the university employs 1,951 full-time instructional staff (83% of whom hold doctorate degrees) with an 18:1 student-to-faculty ratio.