A record-setting 12 months for Tennessee Promise
The Tennessee Larger Training Fee introduced Monday that the Tennessee Promise program noticed a report variety of candidates—greater than 67,000—from the Class of 2025. This system, launched in 2015, is a last-dollar free tuition scholarship for the state’s neighborhood school college students.
When the Tennessee Promise utility interval closed Nov. 1, this system had acquired roughly 700 extra functions than final 12 months.
“We’re thrilled to see this stage of curiosity and dedication from the Class of 2025,” Steven Gentile, govt director of the Tennessee Larger Training Fee, stated in a press launch. “The keenness these college students are displaying for greater schooling displays the success of Tennessee Promise and the rising momentum towards making postsecondary alternatives a actuality for all Tennesseans.”
The fee additionally got here out with its annual report on this system’s pupil demographics and outcomes, which revealed different milestones. Notably, the 2022–23 cohort had the best retention charge for the reason that program started: 83.8 % of scholars earned credentials or stayed enrolled from fall to spring, a 2.5-percentage-point improve over the earlier cohort. The report additionally discovered that about 18 % of Tennessee Promise college students within the 2023–24 cohort first enrolled at technical schools, or Tennessee Faculties of Utilized Know-how, the biggest share of any cohort.
(This text has been up to date to appropriate the variety of candidates from the category of 2025.)
