TN Promise
Eligible Post-Secondary Institutions

TN Promise Eligible Post-Secondary Institutions

The colleges listed below are considered eligible for TN Promise funding. TN Promise acts as a last-dollar scholarship at Tennessee community colleges and colleges of applied technology. Some four-year colleges are eligible for TN Promise funding; however, they have a different funding model. Please see the verbiage at the bottom of this page for a full explanation of TN Promise funding at eligible four-year colleges.

Tennessee Community Colleges

Chattanooga State Community College

Cleveland State Community College

Columbia State Community College

Dyersburg State Community College

Jackson State Community College

Motlow State Community College

Nashville State Community College

Northeast State Community College

Pellissippi State Community College

Roane State Community College

Southwest Tennessee Community College

Volunteer State Community College

Walters State Community College

Tennessee Colleges of Applied Technology (TCATs)

TCAT Athens

TCAT Chattanooga

TCAT Covington

TCAT Crossville

TACT Crump

TCAT Dickson

TCAT Elizabethton

TCAT Harriman

TCAT Hartsville

TCAT Hohenwald

TCAT Jacksboro

TCAT Jackson

TCAT Knoxville

TCAT Livingston

TCAT McKenzie

TCAT McMinnville

TCAT Memphis

TCAT Morristown

TCAT Murfreesboro

TCAT Nashville

TCAT Northwest

TCAT Oneida

TCAT Paris

TCAT Pulaski

TCAT Ripley

TCAT Shelbyville

Public Universities with Eligible Two-Year Programs*

Austin Peay State University*

Tennessee State University*

UT Southern (Formerly Martin Methodist College)*

Private Colleges with Eligible Two-Year Programs*

Baptist Health Sciences University*

Bethel University*

Bryan College*

Carson-Newman University*

Christian Brothers University*

Cumberland University*

Freed-Hardeman University*

John A. Gupton College*

Johnson University*

King University*

Lane College*

LeMoyne-Owen College*

Lincoln Memorial University*

South College*

Southern Adventist University*

Trevecca Nazarene University*

Tusculum University*

Welch College*

Other Institutions

William R Moore College of Technology*

*In order to use the TN Promise scholarship at a four-year college or university, students must enroll in and be accepted into an associates degree program at that school – not a bachelor’s degree program. Students enrolling in a health sciences program will not be eligible to receive TN Promise funding until admitted into the actual program of study. At a four-year institution, the TN Promise scholarship may not be last-dollar, meaning it may not fully cover all tuition and mandatory fees. The amount of funding you will receive will be based on the average amount of tuition and mandatory fees at a community college, which is estimated to be $4,000. As a last-dollar scholarship, TN Promise will provide whatever amount remains after Pell, HOPE and TSAA funds are applied. For example, if the average tuition and mandatory fees at a community college were $4,000 per year and you were receiving $3,500 in HOPE funds each year but no other federal or state aid, TN Promise would provide $500 to be applied toward tuition and mandatory fees at one of the eligible four-year institutions listed above.