10915 Hardin Valley Road
Knoxville, TN 37933-0990

Before it became Pellissippi State Technical community college, this Tennessee college was known as the State Technical Institute at Knoxville and was established in September of 1974. Originally, the school was meant to serve as an offshoot of the Knoxville State Regional Vocational-technical school on Division Street, but it soon became recommended -- both by the director of the school and community members -- that the school be established as a two-year, college-level technical training school. Instead of the post-secondary non-degree vocational programs it was intended for, this Tennessee college went on to offer customized training programs that would earn students associate degree and/or certificates in their fields.

From there on the school continued to grow, moving its main campus to a 144-acre site off of Pellissippi Parkway and acquiring a building complex worth approximately $25 million. Additional programs, such as computer training, university parallel, and community programs were gradually added until Pellissippi State Technical Community College became the two-year technical learning institution that it is today. Students can choose to study anything from e-commerce, hospitality, paralegal studies, and computer accounting, to pre-nursing, art, English, interior design technology, and electrical engineering technology.

Quick Facts:

The Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of College and Schools has accredited Pellissippi State Technical Community College.

When Pellissippi State Technical Community College first began, their building was designed for only 350 students. Today this Tennessee college educates a student body of more than 7,000.

Pellissippi State Technical Community College is a member of the State University and Community College System of Tennessee.

In addition to its main campus on Hardin Valley Road, this Tennessee college offers courses through its distance learning programs, as well as at Blount County Center, Magnolia Avenue Campus, and the school's former main campus on Division Street.

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