Do you have the curiosity of a forensic scientist? An ear for music? Maybe you’ve always wanted to teach or build things. With 140 different degree programs, MTSU has plenty of options.

MTSU houses a wide variety of academic programs at the baccalaureate, master’s, and doctoral levels. The University has eight undergraduate colleges and 37 departments or schools, with almost 150 majors and concentrations available.

Africana Studies, Fermentation Science, Dance, and Religious Studies are new majors that are unusual for public universities in Tennessee. Nationally recognized MTSU programs include Aerospace, Accounting, Agriscience and Agribusiness, Recording Industry, Industrial-Organizational Psychology, and Concrete Industry Management, which attract students from around the world. The College of Graduate Studies offers more than 100 different areas of study.

MTSU was ranked as one of the Best in the Southeast in 2017 by Princeton Review. The website has called MTSU “a growing school on the rise,” where “you get a quality education and you aren’t in crippling debt afterward.”

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Hugh Berryman, director of MTSU’s Forensic Science program, is leading a team of scientists to help identify the remains of U.S. Army soldiers who perished during the Mexican-American War (1846). Fellow MTSU professors Shannon Hodge and Derek Frisby are assisting in the effort.

One in every 5 college-educated people in the Nashville area is an MTSU graduate, according to the Business and Economic Research Center at MTSU.

Billboard ranked MTSU once again among the 15 Best Music Business Schools, noting that MTSU co-sponsored the first international conference focusing on the music of Prince and helped create The Songwriters television show. Audio Assemble rated MTSU’s Audio Production program No. 1 nationally among audio engineering schools.

Milk produced by MTSU’s School of Agribusiness and Agriscience is now sold in bottles around campus and in some retail spots after the MT Creamery debuted its new bottling process.

The College Choice website rated MTSU’s Psychology degree programs among the best in the country available online, ranking No. 30 nationally.