Do you have the curiosity of a forensic scientist? An ear for music? Maybe you’ve always wanted to teach or build things. With more than 300 different degree programs for undergraduate and graduate students, 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 almost 40 departments or schools, with over 180 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, Agriculture, 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 is ranked as one of the Best in the Southeast in 2019 by Princeton Review. The website calls MTSU “a growing school on the rise,” where “you get a quality education and you aren’t in crippling debt afterward.”
MTSU Colleges
Basic and Applied Sciences | 615-898-2613 |
Behavioral and Health Sciences | 615-898-2900 |
Jones College of Business | 615-898-2764 |
Education | 615-898-2874 |
Liberal Arts | 615-898-2534 |
Media and Entertainment | 615-898-5872 |
University College | 615-494-7714 |
University Honors College | 615-898-2152 |
Graduate Studies | 615-898-2840 |

Some Special Centers On Campus
- Business and Economic Research Center
- Tennessee Center for the Study and Treatment of Dyslexia
- Center for Economic Education
- Center for Energy Efficiency
- Center for Health and Human Services
- Learning, Teaching, and Innovative Technologies Center
- Center for Organizational and Human Resource Effectiveness
- Center for Popular Music
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MTSU’s music business program is consistently ranked on Billboard and Hollywood Reporter listings of top programs globally, and NBC News spotlighted the University as a standout in educating the next generation of music industry pros. MTSU is rated No. 1 nationally among audio engineering schools by Audio Assemble.
One in every five college-educated workers in the Nashville area is an MTSU graduate, according to the Business and Economic Research Center at MTSU.
Milk produced and bottled by MTSU’s School of Agriculture is sold at campus and other shops. MTSU Creamery joined another dairy as the first awarded the state’s new Tennessee Milk logo.
Five years and 400 students later, MTSU’s fast-growing Mechatronics Engineering major has earned accreditation from ABET (Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology).
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.