Mission
The UT System’s mission is to serve all Tennesseans and beyond through education, discovery and outreach that enables strong economic, social and environmental well-being.

Educate
Nearly 28 million people are currently enslaved around the world, with traffickers raking in $150 billion a year. UT Southern Assistant Professor and Program Chair of Criminology and Homeland Security Richard Schoeberl works to help solve this crisis.

Discover
In February 2018, a team from Eastman Chemical Company visited Dayakar Penumadu’s materials research lab with a request. The UT Knoxville team’s answer is likely to yield impacts on material sustainability and durability for car tires in the future.

Connect
Jack Daniels needs specific trees to create its iconic whiskey. UTIA has been there to help ensure the brand can continue for many more generations.
Impact
Aligning the expertise and infrastructure of the University of Tennessee and Oak Ridge National Laboratory, the UT-Oak Ridge Innovation Institute is a hub for world-class discovery and innovation, interdisciplinary graduate education, and talent development.
Initiatives

Strategic Plan
The revised strategic plan sets new data-informed goals and objectives for the UT System through the year 2025.

Advocacy
UT Advocacy is the official grassroots network of alumni, students, faculty, staff and friends of the University of Tennessee.

Transparent UT
The UT System is committed to providing greater and easier access to information for the faculty, staff, students and communities it serves.

Grand Challenges
A hub for locating UT resources, people, stories, and understanding the connected web of some of Tennessee’s most important issues.
Campuses
The University of Tennessee is comprised of campuses at Knoxville, Chattanooga, Pulaski, Martin and the Health Science Center at Memphis.
Institutes
The University of Tennessee is comprised of the statewide Institute of Agriculture and Institute for Public Service

Institute of Agriculture
The UT Institute of Agriculture delivers real life solutions through $54.5 million in research, educational outreach to 3.3 million people and veterinary services to more than 21,000 animals annually. UTIA’s two colleges currently enroll 1,700 students.

Institute for Public Service
The statewide Institute for Public Service helps Tennessee companies generate $1.9 billion annually to the state economy, answers more than 80,000 requests for assistance and trains close to 30,000 municipal, county and state employees, manufacturers and law enforcement personnel.
Employees
The University of Tennessee employs more than 12,000 people in Tennessee with its workforce distributed across all 95 counties.