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Cookeville, Tennessee Colleges

The small city of Cookeville, Tenn., tucked between Nashville and Knoxville, offers affordable living and an emphasis on business and education.

Looking for accredited career colleges, technical schools, and universities in Cookeville, Tennessee. Each degree from a Cookeville, Tennessee Career College, a post-secondary for-profit institution, offers an education with an in-demand career field.

At career colleges in Tennessee, you typically don't take general education classes in core subjects such as English and math. Instead, you focus on career-related courses.

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Cookeville, Tenn., Colleges and Universities

Located about halfway between Knoxville and Nashville, Cookeville is a self-described regional center of business, education, health care and retail. The City of Cookeville has about 30,000 residents and offers lots of greenspace and places to shop as well as affordable living.

Cookeville Colleges

Tennessee Tech University is located in Cookeville. The university offers more than 40 bachelor's programs and more than 20 graduate programs to its nearly 12,000 students. If personal attention is what you are looking for, Tennessee Tech tries to keep many of its classes to less than 25 students. Tennessee Tech University is ranked among the top public universities by U.S. News & World Report and was named one of the best schools in the southeast by The Princeton Review. Tuition is about $14,000 per year including room and board and a meal plan, but you may recoup that sooner than you think: The median salary for a Tennessee Tech graduate after 15 years of experience is $76,400, and 60 percent of the school's grads are debt free when they obtain their diploma. Other colleges located in Cookeville include Tennessee Bible College, Nashville State Technical Institute's Cookeville Campus and MedVance Institute.

Cookeville Economy

About 85 percent of Cookeville's residents are high school graduates, and nearly a third of the people living in Cookeville have earned a bachelor's degree or higher (more so than for the nationwide average). Almost half of Cookeville's residents own their homes, and the median home value in the city is $135,600. As the county seat of Putnam County, the small city of Cookeville could be a big place worth consideration when it comes to pursuing your education and career.

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