A FIFA delegation visited the university as part of the FIFA Pitch Research Field Day. The delegation inspected the turf research and development facility and met the teams from UT Knoxville, UTIA and Michigan State University working to create the perfect natural grass pitches for FIFA World Cup 2026.
Rankings
- Forbes ranks UT Knoxville among the nation’s best employers for new graduates in 2024, and Princeton Review lists the university as a Best Value College.
- UT Knoxville remains a top school for graduate engineering programs, according to U.S. News and World Report’s Best Graduate Schools 2024. Tickle College of Engineering’s graduate programs rank 29th among public universities and 53rd overall, with nuclear engineering fifth among public universities and sixth nationwide.
- Gartner’s 2024 Top 25 Supply Chain University rankings places Haslam College of Business No. 1 in North America for graduate supply-chain management education and No. 2 for undergraduate programs.
UT Knoxville is the lead institution for a $25 million cooperative agreement awarded by the U.S. Department of Energy to support research that underlies its nuclear security and nonproliferation missions.
Champions
UT Knoxville is one of only two schools to earn three consecutive SEC All-Sports titles from USA Today Network. The Vols captured both the regular-season and tournament titles in baseball, along with regular-season titles in softball and men’s basketball, making UT the first school in SEC history to win championships in all three sports in the same year.
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