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
Hill to Speak at May Commencement
Rymer Scholars Announced
Lee Thanks Community for 2024 Great Strides
Ford Represents Lee at Boston Marathon
Doctoral Students to Present Research
Lee Singers to Host Farewell Concert for Moffett
Percussion Ensemble to Perform April 21
Opera Theatre to Present Opera Scenes Sunday
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.
Jarrod Casteel
Jarrod Casteel graduated from Lee University in 2012 with a degree in political science and an emphasis in political theory. He attended the University of Tennessee College of Law, where he graduated with honors in May of 2016. When Casteel first came to Lee, he says he initially majored in “baseball” and had no real interest in either the spiritual or academic life of the university. After failing multiple classes and eventually dropping out of school altogether, Casteel eventually made the prayerful decision to reframe his life. Upon his return to Lee, he spent the next few years working hard to become one of the top students in the history, political science, and humanities program. Currently, Casteel is a successful lawyer in Knoxville and director of corporate counsel for Ruby Tuesday.