Public Administration in Tennessee
Tennessee is a state in the Southeastern United States that ranks 36th in size and 17th in population in the United States. Tennessee is a shallow, wide state that borders Alabama, Mississippi and Georgia to the South. Its East border runs diagonally and is up against North Carolina, while it borders Virginia and Kentucky to the North. In the West, Tennessee borders Arkansas and Mississippi.
Tennessee is impacted by two of the biggest geographical formations in the United States, as the Appalachian Mountains run trough the Eastern end of the state and the Mississippi River runs down its Western border.
The largest city in Tennessee is Memphis, while Nashville is its capital. Nashville is also the largest metropolitan area in the state.
Nashville is known as the headquarters of country music, but Tennessee as a hole has been key in the development of several forms of music including rock and roll, blues, rockabilly and the aforementioned country. Memphis is to the blues as Nashville is to country music, so the state is a popular destination for fans of those types of music.
Schools in Tennessee that Offer a Master of Public Administration
Three of the four universities in Tennessee that have a Master of Public Administration program are accredited by the National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration.
Those three are at Tennessee State University, the University of Memphis and the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. East Tennessee State University has a program too, but it does not have accreditation through the NASPAA.
The University of Memphis is a public school in Memphis, Tennessee, that has about 22,000 students. Just over 5,000 of them are postgraduates. The University of Memphis is the flagship school for the Tennessee Board of Regents school system.
The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga is a public university in Chattanooga, which has about 11,000 undergraduates and more than 1,300 postgraduate students. Though it is public now, Chattanooga University, as it was originally founded, was a private school from 1886 to 1969. It was renamed in 1907 as the University of Chattanooga, but not until it merged with a city college did it become a public university.
Tennessee State University is a public land-grant university in Nashville, Tennessee, which has the unique distinction of being the only historically black university in the state that is state-funded. It was established in 1912 and now has almost 7,000 undergraduates and nearly 2,000 postgraduate students.