Cookeville, Tennessee Colleges

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

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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Schools and Colleges in Cookeville, Tennessee

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MedVance Institute - Cookeville

Advance your health care career with MedVance Institute. Students can graduate in as little as a year. We offer programs for careers in various areas of the health care field at our locations throughout Texas, Florida, Tennessee, and Louisiana. Each campus is equipped with the tools and labs that are vital to gaining the skills necessary for a successful health care career. Our dedicated faculty and staff are industry-experienced and can give you the personalized attention you need to succeed both in and outside of the classroom. We also offer job placement assistance, which provides students and graduates with one-on-one coaching and solid job leads from our wide network of medical employers

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Fortis Institute - Cookeville(Formerly known as MedVance Institute - Cookeville)

Are you ready to take the next step toward realizing your career dreams? Fortis Institute can help you get there. At Fortis Institute, we pride ourselves on providing a quality postsecondary career education to students through a range of degree and diploma programs in high-demand fields such as Medical Assisting, Medical Billing and Coding, Dental Assistant, and Medical Business & Clinical Specialist. We offer a change-oriented educational approach that focuses on helping students develop the critical thinking and problem-solving skills that they'll need to succeed in existing and emerging careers. For our graduates, we also provide job placement assistance through our Career Services Center.

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