AUSTIN PEAY STATE UNIVERSITY
Clarksville is home to Austin Peay State University, one of Tennessee's outstanding public universities. With its beautiful, park-like campus, APSU is adjacent to Clarksville's central business district. Founded in 1927 and named for native son Gov. Austin Peay, APSU is a progressive university, offering high-quality undergraduate, graduate, and pre-professional programs.
APSU offers:
- Diverse Degree Programs: Offering 57 majors with different areas of concentration allowing students to earn a bachelor's, master's, or education specialist's degree.
- Diverse Degree Programs: Also offering 199 online courses, 13 degrees, and one distance-based master's degree.
- New Facilities: A first-class science-education complex, University Center, village-style housing, and a new 75,000-square-foot recreation center.
- Athletics: Teams compete in the Ohio Valley Conference in 16 competitive sports.
- Centers of Excellence: Two Accomplished Centers of Excellence (creative arts and biology) and four Chairs of Excellence (creative arts, nursing, and two in business).
Constructed in 2002, the 180,000-square-foot Sundquist Science Complex is one of the South's premier science education facilities. With more than 40 "smart" classrooms, state-of-the art labs and wireless Internet access. It also features a zoological museum, herbarium, interactive TV classroom and the Robert F. Sears Memorial Planetarium . With a price tag in excess of $38 million, it represents one of the largest capital appropriations ever in Tennessee for a single classroom building.
QUICK FACTS
| Enrollment | 9,094 |
| Faculty | 800 |
| Average Age of On-Campus Students | 25 |
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