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While visiting Cookeville, drop by Tennessee Tech to stroll the beautiful campus, enjoy numerous cultural activities, or cheer the Tennessee Tech Golden Eagles and Eaglettes on to victory. Also see Henderson Hall, which is on the National Register of Historic Places. Be sure to see Derryberry Hall, one of the oldest buildings on campus. It's easily recognizable by its clock tower, upon which the famed Golden Eagle perches. Legend has it that former Tennessee Governor Frank Clement (now deceased) was prepared to intervene in a dispute over the eagle, which originally made its way to Cookeville via Chattanooga's Monteagle Hotel. From 1909 to 1915, Derryberry Hall, along with Kittrell Hall and Bartoo Hall, which served as men's and women's residence halls, made up TTU's forerunner, Dixie College. All three buildings are located on the university's Main Quad just off William Jones Blvd., where a historic marker tells the story of Dixie College.
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Tennessee Tech is a public, co-educational and comprehensive university. Although it is located in some of Tennessee's most beautiful countryside, the campus is only a little more than an hour from three of the state's metro areas — 82 miles east of Nashville, 109 miles west of Knoxville and 96 miles north of Chattanooga.
Tennessee Tech is known as Tennessee’s technological university, but it houses seven strong academic divisions — the College of Agriculture and Human Ecology, College of Arts and Sciences, College of Business Administration, College of Education, College of Engineering, School of Nursing, School of Interdisciplinary Studies and Extended Education. With an enrollment of 9,733 and more than 50 percent of classes with 20 students or less, strong faculty/student relationships are a hallmark of a Tennessee Tech's educational experience.
