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Founded in 1794, the University of Tennessee, Knoxville is a public land-grant research university in Knoxville, Tennessee. It is the flagship campus of the University of Tennessee system. It is first public university chartered west of the Appalachian Divide. The university is affiliated the Howard H. Baker, Jr. Center for Public Policy, the University of Tennessee Anthropological Research Facility, and the University of Tennessee Arboretum.

It is also a partner of University of Tennessee Medical Center. The university receives students from 50 states in the US and from more than 100 countries across the world.