Tennessee Technological University, popularly known as Tennessee Tech, is a state-funded college situated in Cookeville, Tennessee, United States, on an 80 miles (129 km) campus east of Nashville. In 1909, it was called the University of Dixie, which later on changed to Tennessee Polytechnic Institute in 1915. Tennessee Tech places accentuation on undergrad training in fields identified with designing and innovation, in spite of the fact that degrees in instruction, human sciences, agribusiness, nursing, and different fields of study can be sought after as well. Moreover, there are graduate courses in designing, instruction, business, and human sciences. As of the 2018 fall semester, Tennessee Tech enlists in excess of 10,000 understudies (9,006 undergraduate and 1,180 alumni students), and it has 87 structures spread across 235 acres of land focused along Dixie Road in Cookeville. The normal class size is 26, and the student-to-staff proportion is 18:1. Thus, the university maintains an engaging and interactive classroom environment. Less than one percent of all classes are educated by showing colleagues, with the remainder of the classes being instructed by educators.