About Tennessee Wesleyan College

Tennessee Wesleyan University (TWU) is a private Methodist academic world in Athens, Tennessee. It was founded in 1857 and is affiliated behind the Holston Conference of the United Methodist Church. It maintains a branch campus in Knoxville, where it offers evening programs in matter administration. It furthermore conducts its nursing classes in Knoxville.

Tennessee Wesleyan offers ten varsity sports. The Bulldogs and Lady Bulldogs compete in the Appalachian Athletic Conference of the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics.

Athens is the county seat of McMinn County, Tennessee, United States and the principal city of the Athens Micropolitan Statistical Area has a population of 53,569, which is ration of the larger Chattanooga-Cleveland-Athens Combined Statistical Area. The city is located approximately equidistantly amid the major cities of Knoxville and Chattanooga. The population was 13,458 at the 2010 census. The population of the zipcode Place is at 23,726