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
Wind Ensemble to Present “Fervent Hearts”
Shenanigans to Perform on Valentine’s Weekend
Lee Partners with LMU-DCOM for Guaranteed Premed Interviews
25th Annual Great Strides Walk to Take Place March 29
Lee to Host Honor Choir Concert
Estes Receives Hero of Hope Award
Students Leave for U.K. Semester Abroad
String Theory at the Hunter to Present “The Virtuosic Violin with Benjamin Beilman”
Enrollment
3,700+
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.

Jalyn Grace Poynter
Jalyn Grace Poynter, a nursing major with a Spanish minor, is from Beaver Dam, Kentucky. At Lee, she is a teacher’s assistant at the Early Learning Center, an episode host for Imago Dei, a member of the Evangelistic Singers, and a member of Phi Eta Sigma. Jalyn has also been a Presidential Scholar, an Honors Scholar, and a Dr. Scholl Scholar. She came to Lee after attending a Winterfest conference and Summer Honors. Her favorite parts of Lee have been hands-on experience in her major, her Global Perspectives trip to Colombia, and developing her faith. Jalyn plans to become a registered nurse in the orthopedic or pediatric setting, earn her Doctor of Nursing Practice, and maybe teach or get involved in a mission’s organization for travel nursing.