Part of this profile was updated with AI and edited by Poets&Quants.
The Haslam College of Business at the University of Tennessee finished No. 47 on Poets&Quants’ 2026 ranking of the Best Undergraduate Business Programs in the U.S. In our three methodological categories, it finished No. 49 in Admission Standards, No. 69 in Career Outcomes, and No. 42 in Academic Experience (based solely on our alumni survey).
The B-school’s acceptance rate for the fall 2025 incoming class was 37.2%, and the class also reported an average SAT score of 1322. Its six-year graduation rate is 78.3%.
In career data, 83% of Class of 2024 graduates and 87% of Class of 2025 graduates completed at least one business-specific internship before graduation. Some 91.03% of 2025 grads found jobs within three months, compared to 89.61% of 2024 grads. Average salary for the most recent graduates was $61,564, with 31% of them reporting an average signing bonus of $5,677. The top employers included PepsiCo/Frito-Lay, 21st Mortgage Corporation, Amazon.com, Axle Logistics, Dell Technologies, Pilot Company, Oracle, Total Quality Logistics, Clayton Homes, and Schneider Electric.
INTEGRATED EDUCATION
The Haslam Undergraduate Business experience is anchored by the Haslam Leaders Curriculum, including BUAD 100, 200, 300, and 405, a professional-development sequence built to connect students’ academic work with leadership, communication, and career preparation. Haslam undergraduates can choose from the following business majors: Accounting, Business Analytics, Economics, Finance, Human Resource Management, International Business, Management, Marketing, and Supply Chain Management.
Where Haslam really shines, however, is its integrated program offerings. The B-school’s Heath Integrated Business and Engineering Program brings together students from Haslam and UT’s Tickle College of Engineering in a three-year cross-disciplinary cohort focused on business leadership, communications, process thinking, mentorship, site visits, and a capstone centered on a real-world problem at the intersection of business and engineering.
For students with a global bent, International Business is structured as a double major paired with another Haslam major. The program includes an advanced foreign language component and a required full-semester study abroad experience. As a public land-grant institution, Haslam continues to pair broad access with a more structured approach to undergraduate professional development.
GLOBAL LEADERSHIP SCHOLARS
The Greg and Lisa Smith Global Leadership Scholars (Smith GLS) is Haslam’s premier honors program. Smith GLS students pursue a concentration in international business with their chosen business major and complete honors coursework, leadership seminars, international experiences, and extracurricular programming designed to develop international and intercultural awareness alongside professional growth.
One of the signature elements of the curriculum is the London semester in the spring of sophomore year, where students spend the first half of the term in honors business courses and the second half in a six-week, full-time internship. Haslam also gives first-year students an early path into international business learning through its First-Year Experience study abroad programs.
REAL-WORLD CAPSTONE
Haslam’s emphasis on applied business work shows up clearly in the outcomes: according to the school’s most recent survey submission, 100% of the Class of 2025 participated in a consulting project with an external organization. The college has also invested in hands-on, employer-facing learning through the JTV Center for Applied Business Analytics, where undergraduates work under faculty mentorship on real-world analytics problems tied to the analytics capstone course.
Haslam has also continued to broaden the ways students can connect academics to careers. The Business Fellows Program remains a signature honors option for high-achieving students, while the college’s online BSBA pathway offers a management-focused degree-completion route for students seeking more flexibility. Together, those options reinforce the school’s continuing push toward experiential learning, access, and career readiness.
ALUMNI SAY
“Haslam required a semester long project where you worked with a group of assigned team members to run a virtual bike shop. Inherently, you had to work with a variety of personalities, just as you would in real-life work experiences. I felt like the emphasis of the class was to work on soft skills.”
“I was involved in several signature experiences. One was the Haslam student advisory council where I collaborated with students and business school leadership to improve student life and engagement. Another was being the only student on the building committee, a committee divided to design the new Haslam business school building. I was able to participate in decisions regarding design, functionality, and student desires for the new building.
Now, being 2 years post grad, they are currently building that building.”
“Cannot say enough about the faculty employees at UTK. Whether it was helping in understanding material being taught or giving advice, the faculty was always there to lend a helping hand”
“I am still heavily involved with Haslam College of Business 3 years after graduation due to the genuine relationships the college helps build with professors. I come back to campus for recruiting more business students from UTK because they often have great success in the industry after graduating.”
