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Tennessee Technological University has received a new position in the Carnegie Classification.
Tennessee Tech increased in the national classification system to an R2 status. The R2 status indicates a doctoral university with high research activity.
Tennessee Technological University now stands as a doctoral university with high research activity. (Photo: TN Tech)
The Carnegie system award sone of three classifications, including R1 doctoral universities with very high research activity and Doctoral and Professional universities.
Carnegie only awards R1 and R2 positions to institutions with at least 20 research or scholarship doctoral degrees. The institutions must also have at least $5 million in total research expenditures each year.
Tennessee Tech spent approximately $16.4 million in sponsored research for the year 2017-2018.
The university moved from a master’s to a doctoral university in 2016.
For the past four and a half decades, the Carnegie Classification has recognized and described institutional diversity in U.S. higher education.
