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Former names | Chattanooga University (1886–1889) U.S. Grant Memorial University, Chattanooga campus (1889–1907) University of Chattanooga (1907–1969) |
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| Motto | Faciemus |
Motto in English | We shall achieve |
| Type | Public university |
| Established | 1886; 140 years ago (1886) |
Parent institution | University of Tennessee System |
Academic affiliations | |
| Endowment | $210.3 million (2024)[1] |
| Chancellor | Lori Mann Bruce |
Administrative staff | 422 |
| Students | 12,060[2] |
| Undergraduates | 10,396 (fall 2025) |
| Postgraduates | 1,664 (fall 2025) |
| Location | ,, United States 35°02′45″N85°18′00″W / 35.0458°N 85.2999°W /35.0458; -85.2999 |
| Campus | Urban, 321 acres (1,300,000 m2)[3] |
| Colors | Navy and gold[4] |
| Nickname | Mocs |
Sporting affiliations | NCAA Division I –SoCon |
| Mascot | Scrappy theMocking Bird |
| Website | www |
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The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga (UT Chattanooga,UTC, orChattanooga)[5] is apublic university inChattanooga, Tennessee, United States. It was founded in 1886 and is part of theUniversity of Tennessee System.
UTC was founded in 1886 as the then-private and racially exclusiveChattanooga University, which was soon merged in 1889 with theAthens-based Grant Memorial University (nowTennessee Wesleyan University),[6] becoming the Chattanooga campus ofU.S. Grant Memorial University.[7][8] In 1907, the school changed its name toUniversity of Chattanooga. In 1964 the university merged withZion College, which had been established in 1949 and later became Chattanooga City College. In 1969 the University of Chattanooga joined the UT system and became the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.[9]
The University of Chattanooga Foundation Inc. is a private corporation, created in 1969, that manages the university's private endowment.[10]
UTC uses thesemester system, with five optional "mini-terms" in the summer. The leadership of the campus rests upon thechancellor, who answers to theUT System President. The university is currently headed by Chancellor Lori Mann Bruce.
The following people have had the post of president or xhancellor at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga (UTC). Prior to 1969, the institution was known as the University of Chattanooga (1907–1969), U.S. Grant University (1889–1907), and Chattanooga University (1886–1889). At the time of UTC's establishment in 1969, the title of the leader became chancellor instead of president.[11]
| Race and ethnicity | Total | ||
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| White | 69% | ||
| Black | 9% | ||
| Unknown | 9% | ||
| Hispanic | 6% | ||
| Two or more races | 4% | ||
| Asian | 3% | ||
| International student | 1% | ||
| Economic diversity | |||
| Low-income[a] | 33% | ||
| Affluent[b] | 67% | ||
Chattanooga is best known for its nationally rankedBusiness program,[14] and itsEngineering,Nursing,English,Chemistry,Accounting,Psychology,Music, andEducation departments. The university offers over 140 undergraduate majors and concentrations, and over 50 undergraduate minors.[15] Chattanooga also offers nearly 100 graduate programs and concentrations,[15] including a highly ranked master's program inIndustrial and Organizational Psychology,[16] andPhD programs in Computational Engineering andPhysical Therapy. In an effort to expand the horizons of its student body, UTC began an exchange program withKangnung National University ofKangnung, South Korea.
| Academic rankings | |
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| U.S. News & World Report[17] | 315 (tie) |
SimCenter is UTC's computational engineering and simulation center. In November 2005, SimCenter was listed as the 89th most powerful supercomputer byTop500.[22] On November 20, 2007, the university announced that the center had been named a National Center for Computational Engineering.[citation needed] More recently, the SimCenter provided the academic research for a new source of alternative energy unveiled by Bloom Energy Corporation in Sunnyvale, California.[23]
The Clinical Infectious Disease Control Research Unit is a research interest group composed of UTC faculty, students, and local partners.[24] Members of the CIDC have had their research published in peer-reviewed journals, as well as presented at professional meetings and conferences.[24]
The university is served byCARTA bus routes 4, 7, 10, 14, 19, and 28. Route 14 only operates on weekdays during fall and spring terms, when the university is session. The route runs on and off the campus on McCallie, Houston, Vine, Douglas, Fifth, and Palmetto Streets. A recent extension serves Third, O'Neal, and Central Streets, as well as Erlanger Hospital, and a large parking lot atEngel Stadium. All students showing valid university identification cards (MocsCards) ride for free on all CARTA routes, year-round.
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Patten Chapel is one of the busiest sanctuaries in Chattanooga. Mostly weddings and memorial services are held there. A bride's room has been prepared and is always ready. Reserving the chapel should be done around a year in advance as its popularity sees events almost every weekend. Wedding receptions are not hosted at the chapel.
Formerly the Lupton Memorial Library, Lupton Hall, named forT. Cartter and Margaret Rawlings Lupton, was constructed in 1974 to replace the aging John Storrs Fletcher Library (which has since been restored and renamed Fletcher Hall). As of 2005, the library's collection includes nearly 2 million items, including theFellowship of Southern Writers archives. In 2008, the university was granted funding to build a new library.[25]
The university broke ground in 2010 for the new $48 million 180,000-square-foot (17,000 m2) library. Construction was completed on the UTC Library in January 2015.[26]
Following the opening of the new UTC Library, Lupton Hall began renovations in 2018.[27] Opening to students and faculty in 2020, Lupton's entire 116,000 square feet of available space had been gutted and rebuilt to include student centers, academic departments under the College of Arts and Sciences, various classroom spaces, and a new on-campus restaurant, Freshens.[28]
Chattanooga's colors arenavy andold gold. Their men's teams and athletes are nicknamed Mocs, and women's teams and athletes are Lady Mocs. Chattanooga athletics teams compete inNCAADivision I (FCS forfootball) in theSouthern Conference (SoCon) and have been ranked as a national top 100 athletic program by TheNational Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics (NACDA) in the Division I Learfield Sports Director's Cup.[29]
Chattanooga's men's basketball program has been among the best in the Southern Conference since joining the league in 1977–78. The Mocs have won 10 SoCon Tournament titles, tied for first all-time with former member West Virginia and Davidson, 10 regular-season league championships prior to the change to the division format in 1995 and seven division titles, for 27 total titles. In1997, led by coachMack McCarthy and Chattanooga native Johnny Taylor, the Mocs made a run to the Sweet 16 as a No. 14 seed, beating Georgia and Illinois before falling to Providence. Before making the move to Division I, Chattanooga won the Division II National Championship in 1977.[30] In July 2008, the team was ranked number 48 on theESPN list of the most prestigious basketball programs since the 1984–85 season.[31]
The Mocs won the SoCon tournamentonce again in 2009. Defeating theCollege of Charleston Cougars 80–69 in the championship game on their home court at theMcKenzie Arena, the Mocs punched their ticket to theNCAA tournament, their first since2005.
Jimmy Fallon fromLate Night with Jimmy Fallon chose the Mocs as his team of choice going into the2009 NCAA tournament. The Wednesday night (March 18) show included a live Skype chat with Head Coach John Shulman, as well as representatives of the pep band and cheerleading squads made in studio. Fallon's house bandThe Roots wrote and performed an ode to Shulman titled, "The Don Juan of the SoCon" and Shulman and his six seniors (Nicchaeus Doaks, Zach Ferrell, Kevin Goffney, Khalil Hartwell, Stephen McDowell and Keyron Sheard) made an in-studio appearance following their tournament game with UConn.
The Lady Mocs are the most successful women's basketball program in Southern Conference history, with 15 regular season titles since 1983–1984, 10 consecutive conference championships at the end of 2008–2009, and 14 overall conference championships.[32]
The men's golf squad won its third consecutive Southern Conference trophy and finished 18th in the NCAA Championships in 2009.
In August 2012, UTC golferSteven Fox won the U.S. Amateur Championship.
Women's golf posted a 3.46 team GOA in the spring while advancing to the NCAA Division I finals in just the second year of the program since disbanding in the mid-1980s.[33]
The Mocs’ softball team has won 11 regular season titles and 10 SoCon Tournament Championships. They have also made 7 NCAA tournament appearances.[32]
Chattanooga is home to the only NCAA Division Iwrestling program in the state of Tennessee. The Mocs' wrestling team has won 8 of the past 9 SoCon titles since the 2012–2013 academic year.[32]
The team plays in the Southern Conference (SoCon) in Division I FCS (formerly I-AA).Hall of FamerTerrell Owens played wide receiver for the Mocs from 1992 to 1995. The team won three straight SoCon championships from 2013 to 2015. They play inFinley Stadium, which hosted theNCAA Division I Football Championship from 1997 to 2009.
In 2021, the team fired its offensive line coach, Chris Malone, for making a derogatory social media post about Georgia and civil rights leaderStacey Abrams.[34]
The school's athletic teams are called the Mocs. The teams were nicknamed the Moccasins until 1996. (The origin of the name is uncertain; however,Moccasin Bend is a large horseshoe-shaped bend in theTennessee River directly belowLookout Mountain.)
The mascot has taken on four distinct forms. Awater moccasin was the mascot in the 1920s, and then amoccasin shoe (known as "The Shoe") was used as the school's mascot at times in the 1960s and 1970s. From the 1970s until 1996, the mascot wasChief Moccanooga, an exaggeratedCherokee tribesman.
In 1996, the Moccasins name and image were dropped in favor of the shortened "Mocs" and ananthropomorphizednorthern mockingbird, in accordance with the state bird, named "Scrappy" dressed as arailroad engineer. The school's main athletic logo features Scrappy riding a train (a reference to Chattanooga's history as a majorrailroad hub and to the song "Chattanooga Choo Choo"). The mascot takes its name from formerfootball coachA. C. "Scrappy" Moore.
The fight song for UTC is "FightChattanooga".[35]
The marching band is referred to as the "Marching Mocs" and performs at all home games.
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{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)Three years after its founding, the University was consolidated with another church-related school, East Tennessee Wesleyan University at Athens, under the name ofGrant University.
[The Athens school prior to the merger was named] Grant Memorial University (1886-1889); [post-merger renamed] U.S. Grant Memorial University (1889-1906)
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