Welcome to the University of the South, home of one of the nation’s top liberal arts colleges and a seminary of the Episcopal Church.
Known simply as “Sewanee” by its students, faculty, staff and friends, the University offers an unmatched educational experience that is characterized by serious intellectual engagement between its teachers and students. Relationships that begin in the classroom extend to all facets of life here, and its not unusual for students and faculty members to work shoulder to shoulder on research projects, journal articles, to meet for dinner or coffee at a local eatery, or to serve together as members of the University orchestra, volunteer fire department, and other civic groups. The Sewanee experience truly prepares its students for lives of integrity, achievement and service.
Since its founding, the College of Arts and Sciences at the University has graduated 25 Rhodes Scholars—a record that is unmatched by all but a handful of institutions—, 34 Watson Fellows, and 26 NCAA Postgraduate Scholars, while the institution’s School of Theology has added to its alumni ranks countless bishops, including three of the last four presiding bishops of the Episcopal Church.
The University is located atop the Cumberland Plateau between Nashville and Chattanooga, Tennessee. Sewanee’s physical environment, which includes a 10,000-acre campus, provides an unparalleled place in which to study and reflect, and has, over its history, become a meeting place for some of America’s most respected literary figures. It is home of the well-known Sewanee Writers’ Conference, the Sewanee Review, and holds the copyrights to Tennessee Williams’ body of work, which was left to the school by the playwright.
The links on this page will provide you with some of the basics on Sewanee. We want this page to be useful to you, and if there are other items you feel would be helpful, please contact us at webmaster@sewanee.edu. Enjoy your visit to Sewanee.
