A Top-Tier, Christ-Centered Experience
Welcome to Lee University, in scenic southeast Tennessee, where the Tennessee River carves through the Appalachian foothills. We offer well over 150 programs of study from associates to doctoral degrees, but our original focus – and still our mission more than a century later – is to create a safe but challenging environment in which our students can develop and prepare for a complex and demanding world.
Undergraduate
Pursue one of over a hundred top-tier degree programs in a Christ-centered, student-focused campus environment featuring acclaimed service learning and global perspectives programs and dynamic social and spiritual engagement events and opportunities.
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Graduate
Achieve expertise in one of our graduate level programs, guided by faculty with decades of collective professional and academic experience and advanced degrees from leading research institutions, conservatories, and seminaries.
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Online
Earn degrees designed for busy people from anywhere in the world. Our nationally ranked online programs connect you to expert, accessible, caring faculty in a supportive learning community dedicated to Christ-centered excellence, all hallmarks of the Lee experience.
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Expect
Something
Great
We have a phrase around Lee, Expect Something Great. We think the college experience should be much more than just academic excellence. At Lee, we expect our students to experience transformational relationships with faculty, with other students, in campus life, and as they move into their calling.
Events
News
Lee to Speak at Winter Commencement
Lessons and Carols to Take Place Dec. 7
Moseley Named Bradley County Teacher of the Year
Lee Holds First-Generation Week
Students Pack Boxes for Operation Christmas Child
New Center for Pentecostal Preaching Named for Dr. Paul L. Walker
Voices of Lee to Present “Home for Christmas” Concert
Lee Honors Lettie Pate Whitehead Scholars
Enrollment
3,500+
Majors Offered
50+
Campus Clubs
100+
NCAA DII Teams
18
Study Abroad Trips
30+
Student Teacher Ratio
13:1
Countries Represented
46
Campus Size
120 ac.
Chris Oglesby
Christopher Allen Oglesby graduated from Lee in 2012 with Bachelor of Music degrees in vocal performance, choral education, and band education. He is currently a second year Adler Fellow with the San Francisco Opera, a multi-year performance-oriented residency that offers advanced artists intensive individual training, coaching, and professional seminars, as well as a wide range of performance opportunities. Oglesby credits a large part of his success to James Frost, Lee’s opera director, and Tony Deaton, associate professor of voice. “Tony gave me the tools I needed for vocal success and longevity and Jimmy nurtured in me a love for opera and its community,” he said. “When I came to Lee I had never seen nor heard an opera and was peer-pressured into joining the chorus for Floyd’s Susanna by some senior students. It changed what I thought music could be.”