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Exempt Authorized Institutions

Tennessee Code Annotated § 49-7-2004(d) provides:

"The general assembly recognizing that any institution meeting the requirements of subdivisions (a)(6) and (a)(11) is established by name as an educational institution and authorized to operate educational programs beyond secondary education, directs the commission to maintain and publish on its web site a list of postsecondary educational institutions meeting the requirements of subdivision (a)(6) with its primary campus domiciled in this state or subdivision (a)(11)."

The institutions below meet the requirements of Tennessee Code Annotated § 49-7-2004(a)(6) with their primary campuses domiciled in Tennessee or § 49-7-2004(a)(11) and are authorized to operate educational programs beyond secondary education in Tennessee:rograms beyond secondary education in Tennessee:

•     American Baptist College

•     Aquinas College

•     Baptist College of Health Sciences

•     Belmont University (All Tennessee locations)

•     Bethel University (All Tennessee locations)

•     Brillare Beauty Institute (All Tennessee locations)

•     Bryan College

•     Carson-Newman University (All Tennessee locations)

•     Christian Brothers University (All Tennessee locations)

•     Cumberland University

•     Fisk University

•     Freed-Hardeman University (All Tennessee locations)

•     John A. Gupton College

•     Johnson University

•     King University (All Tennessee locations)

•     Lane College

•     Lee University

•     LeMoyne-Owen College

•     Lincoln Memorial University (All Tennessee locations)

•     Lipscomb University (All Tennessee locations)

•     Martin Methodist College

•     Maryville College

•     Meharry Medical College

•     Memphis Theological Seminary

•     Mid-America Baptist Theological Seminary

•     Middle Tennessee School of Anesthesia

•     Milligan College

•     Pentecostal Theological Seminary

•     Rhodes College

•     Southern Adventist University (All Tennessee locations)

•     Southern College of Optometry

•     Tennessee Wesleyan University (All Tennessee locations)

•     The University of the South

•     Trevecca Nazarene University (All Tennessee locations)

•     Tusculum University (All Tennessee locations)

•     Union University (All Tennessee locations)

•     Vanderbilt University

•     Welch College

•     Western Governors University

•     William R. Moore College of Technology (All Tennessee locations)

•     Williamson College (All Tennessee locations)