A Top-Tier, Christ-Centered Experience
Welcome to Lee University, in scenic southeast Tennessee, where the Tennessee River carves through the Appalachian foothills. We offer well over 150 programs of study from associates to doctoral degrees, but our original focus – and still our mission more than a century later – is to create a safe but challenging environment in which our students can develop and prepare for a complex and demanding world.
Undergraduate
Pursue one of over a hundred top-tier degree programs in a Christ-centered, student-focused campus environment featuring acclaimed service learning and global perspectives programs and dynamic social and spiritual engagement events and opportunities.
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Graduate
Achieve expertise in one of our graduate level programs, guided by faculty with decades of collective professional and academic experience and advanced degrees from leading research institutions, conservatories, and seminaries.
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Online
Earn degrees designed for busy people from anywhere in the world. Our nationally ranked online programs connect you to expert, accessible, caring faculty in a supportive learning community dedicated to Christ-centered excellence, all hallmarks of the Lee experience.
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Expect
Something
Great
We have a phrase around Lee, Expect Something Great. We think the college experience should be much more than just academic excellence. At Lee, we expect our students to experience transformational relationships with faculty, with other students, in campus life, and as they move into their calling.
Events
News
Ford Represents Lee at Boston Marathon
Lee Singers to Host Farewell Concert for Moffett
Percussion Ensemble to Perform April 21
Opera Theatre to Present Opera Scenes Sunday
School of Music to Present Senior Honors Concert
Second Senior Art Show Opens Thursday
Lee Offers Transfer Scholarship for BSC Students
Coulter to Lecture on Christian Higher Ed
Enrollment
3,500+
Majors Offered
50+
Campus Clubs
100+
NCAA DII Teams
18
Study Abroad Trips
30+
Student Teacher Ratio
13:1
Countries Represented
46
Campus Size
120 ac.
Olivia Grace McLain
Olivia Grace McLain, from York, Pennsylvania, first came to Lee for Summer Honors, but stayed for the “beautiful campus, successful cross country and track and field programs, the intentional professors, and the Christian environment.” Olivia, a business administration major with a nonprofit management minor, is on the cross country and track and field teams, is i nvolved with the service club Crossover, and is part of the Student Athlete Advisory Committee. She has numerous scholarships, including the Presidential Scholarship, the Honor Scholarship, and the Hagmaier Scholarship. She was named the 2019 Gulf South Conference Cross Country Freshman of the Year and was able to travel to California for Cross Country Nationals that same year, which she considers one of the best parts of her Lee experience. Olivia plans to stay at Lee to obtain her MBA and eventually become a collegiate cross country/track and field coach.