Students take part in on-campus festivities celebrating UTC’s recent 125th birthday.
The future of the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga is very bright and the university system will do everything it can to make sure it succeeds, UT President Joe DiPietro said Monday.
“Without a doubt [we will be] far better down the road than we are today,” he told community and university leaders during a luncheon on campus.
This year’s enrollment at UTC reached a record of almost 11,500 students.
The average high school grade point average for the incoming freshman class went up from 3.31 last year to 3.36 this semester, UTC data shows. ACT scores have increased consistently since 2007, from a 22 to a 22.9 this year.
Among UTC’s aspirations is to become one of the top five public master’s degree universities in the South, but getting there could take up to 10 years and about $20 million, administrators have said.