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Campus visits, state by state

Hotels near colleges in Tennessee

18 campuses459 places to stay measured

Knoxville, Tennessee18campuses
in TN

Photo: AppalachianCentrist, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Shows Knoxville; cropped.

By the numbers

18 schools in Tennessee are on this site, with 459 places to stay measured around them. At 10 of them a place to stay is no more than about a 10-minute walk from the tour start or the campus edge, and at 12 one is within about 20 minutes. The shortest walk we measured here is about 1 minute, at Austin Peay State University. For 1 of them the tour meeting place comes straight from the school's own visit page.

How to read these counts

A "10-minute walk" is our estimate from map distance to where the visit starts, or to the campus edge when we have not pinned that down; each school's page says which. Map dated November 2026. The full method

a stay is a 10-minute walk or lessother campuses we cover

Every school we cover in Tennessee

18 schools in Tennessee, in A to Z order

About these lists

Which colleges in Tennessee do you cover?

18 four-year schools in Tennessee: the larger public and private universities plus the liberal arts colleges families tour most. For-profit and online-only schools are left out.

Can you walk from a hotel to campus at schools in Tennessee?

At 12 of the 18, the map shows a place to stay no more than about a 20-minute walk from the tour start or the campus edge. Each school's page lists them closest first.

Do the pages cover graduation as well as tours?

For 2 of these schools we've read the commencement venue on the school's own page and show it. Every page explains what its minutes run to, and the graduation guide covers when rooms sell out.

Where do the walking minutes come from?

From OpenStreetMap distances, turned into minutes by a fixed rule. Breakfast is listed for 17 schools' nearby hotels by brand standard. How the minutes are measured.