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About Middle Tennessee State University

Middle Tennessee State University, or MTSU for short, is a public university located in Murfreesboro, which is the county seat of Rutherford County, situated in the US state of Tennessee, with a population estimated at a number of more than 101 000 inhabitants, during the 2009 census, being part of the Nashville Metropolitan Statistical Area, which includes thirteen counties and a population of 1,632,671 (2009).

MTSU was founded in 1911, as an education college, first starting as Middle Tennessee State Normal School, being advanced to university status and adopting its current name in 1965. Today, Middle Tennessee State University comprises seven colleges, through which it offers 60 degree programs through 35 departments, to a student enrollment of 25,188 (2009), of which 22,299 are undergraduates, and 2,889 are graduate students, being the second-largest institution of higher learning in the state, by enrollment, also having the largest undergraduate enrollment in the state.

Overall, MTSU is academically organized into 8 colleges, which are:

• University Honors College

• College of Basic and Applied Sciences

• Jennings A. Jones College of Business

• College of Continuing Education and Distance Learning

• College of Mass Communication

• College of Education and Behavioral Science

• College of Liberal Arts

• College of Graduate Studies

Athletics

MTSU's athletic teams are known as the Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders, who compete in the Sun Belt Conference of NCAA's Division I in the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS, formerly Division I-A), in various men's and women's sports, including in tennis and golf, in which they won two national championships: one in golf in 1965, and one in men's doubles tennis in 2007.

Notable Alumni

Among the most resonant names, on the list of notable alumni, there are: George S. Clinton - Hollywood composer (Austin Powers trilogy), Amy Lee - co-founder and lead singer, Evanescence, James M. Buchanan - 1986 Nobel Prize in Economics Laureate, Muhammad Yunus - 2006 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, professor of economics, and Dewon Brazelton - Major League Baseball pitcher, among others.