Find Colleges for Your GPA

Find target, reach, and safety schools based on your GPA, with acceptance rates and test score data for thousands of colleges.

Where your 3.1 fits: Safety, Target or Reach, from each college's reported average GPA and acceptance rate. A guide, not a prediction.

Colleges in TennesseeEvery college we list in Tennessee, with its average GPA and test scores where it reports them.

Showing 30 of 66 colleges
Colleges that report an average GPA (9) · best fit first
Middle Tennessee State UniversityMurfreesboro, Tennessee Public, 4-yearFairly easy to get into,69% admitted
Average GPA3.62As reported by the college for 2025⁠–⁠26
SAT, middle 50%520–630 R&W490–600 Math
ACT, middle 50%20–26
Your 3.1their average 3.62Reach
University of MemphisMemphis, Tennessee Public, 4-yearFairly easy to get into,72% admitted
Average GPA3.48As reported by the college for 2023⁠–⁠24
SAT, middle 50%480–600 R&W435–580 Math
ACT, middle 50%18–24
Your 3.1their average 3.48Reach
The University of Tennessee at ChattanoogaChattanooga, Tennessee Public, 4-yearEasy to get into,81% admitted
Average GPA3.62As reported by the college for 2025⁠–⁠26
SAT, middle 50%513–620 R&W500–590 Math
ACT, middle 50%20–26
Your 3.1their average 3.62Reach
Austin Peay State UniversityClarksville, Tennessee Public, 4-yearEasy to get into,96% admitted
Average GPA3.35As reported by the college for 2025⁠–⁠26
SAT, middle 50%445–573 R&W398–553 Math
ACT, middle 50%18–24
Your 3.1their average 3.35Reach
Vanderbilt UniversityNashville, Tennessee Private nonprofit, 4-yearVery hard to get into,5.9% admitted
Average GPA3.90As reported by the college for 2025⁠–⁠26
SAT, middle 50%730–770 R&W770–800 Math
ACT, middle 50%34–35
Your 3.1their average 3.90Reach
Belmont UniversityNashville, Tennessee Private nonprofit, 4-yearEasy to get into,95% admitted
Average GPA3.83As reported by the college for 2024⁠–⁠25
SAT, middle 50%600–690 R&W560–660 Math
ACT, middle 50%24–30
Your 3.1their average 3.83Reach
Lipscomb UniversityNashville, Tennessee Private nonprofit, 4-yearFairly easy to get into,68% admitted
Average GPA3.86As reported by the college for 2024⁠–⁠25
SAT, middle 50%590–700 R&W570–680 Math
ACT, middle 50%23–30
Your 3.1their average 3.86Reach
Lee UniversityCleveland, Tennessee Private nonprofit, 4-yearFairly easy to get into,71% admitted
Average GPA3.64As reported by the college for 2025⁠–⁠26
SAT, middle 50%540–630 R&W500–600 Math
ACT, middle 50%20–27
Your 3.1their average 3.64Reach
Rhodes CollegeMemphis, Tennessee Private nonprofit, 4-yearFairly easy to get into,50% admitted
Average GPA3.75As reported by the college for 2025⁠–⁠26
SAT, middle 50%650–733 R&W650–753 Math
ACT, middle 50%26–32
Your 3.1their average 3.75Reach
More colleges in your filters (no GPA reported)
The University of TennesseeKnoxville, Tennessee Public, 4-yearModerate to get into,42% admitted
Average GPA–
SAT, middle 50%600–680 R&W600–690 Math
ACT, middle 50%25–31
East Tennessee State UniversityJohnson City, Tennessee Public, 4-yearEasy to get into,86% admitted
Average GPA–
SAT, middle 50%510–620 R&W470–580 Math
ACT, middle 50%19–26
Tennessee Technological UniversityCookeville, Tennessee Public, 4-yearEasy to get into,76% admitted
Average GPA–
SAT, middle 50%528–650 R&W520–660 Math
ACT, middle 50%20–27
The University of Tennessee MartinMartin, Tennessee Public, 4-yearEasy to get into,88% admitted
Average GPA–
SAT, middle 50%500–610 R&W470–600 Math
ACT, middle 50%19–25
Tennessee State UniversityNashville, Tennessee Public, 4-yearFairly easy to get into,70% admitted
Average GPA–
SAT, middle 50%460–540 R&W420–510 Math
ACT, middle 50%16–21
Southern Adventist UniversityCollegedale, Tennessee Private nonprofit, 4-yearFairly easy to get into,66% admitted
Average GPA–
SAT, middle 50%530–660 R&W490–640 Math
ACT, middle 50%19–25
Cumberland UniversityLebanon, Tennessee Private nonprofit, 4-yearFairly easy to get into,67% admitted
Average GPA–
SAT, middle 50%–
ACT, middle 50%–
Bethel UniversityMcKenzie, Tennessee Private nonprofit, 4-yearFairly easy to get into,60% admitted
Average GPA–
SAT, middle 50%410–570 R&W420–550 Math
ACT, middle 50%15–21
Union UniversityJackson, Tennessee Private nonprofit, 4-yearFairly easy to get into,60% admitted
Average GPA–
SAT, middle 50%600–710 R&W560–680 Math
ACT, middle 50%22–30
Trevecca Nazarene UniversityNashville, Tennessee Private nonprofit, 4-yearFairly easy to get into,69% admitted
Average GPA–
SAT, middle 50%510–610 R&W470–625 Math
ACT, middle 50%18–24
Freed-Hardeman UniversityHenderson, Tennessee Private nonprofit, 4-yearFairly easy to get into,60% admitted
Average GPA–
SAT, middle 50%481–549 R&W471–538 Math
ACT, middle 50%19–26
Lincoln Memorial UniversityHarrogate, Tennessee Private nonprofit, 4-yearFairly easy to get into,63% admitted
Average GPA–
SAT, middle 50%510–610 R&W490–600 Math
ACT, middle 50%18–24
Sewanee The University of the SouthSewanee, Tennessee Private nonprofit, 4-yearFairly easy to get into,57% admitted
Average GPA–
SAT, middle 50%640–710 R&W620–680 Math
ACT, middle 50%27–31
Carson-Newman UniversityJefferson City, Tennessee Private nonprofit, 4-yearEasy to get into,90% admitted
Average GPA–
SAT, middle 50%500–645 R&W455–570 Math
ACT, middle 50%19–25
Christian Brothers UniversityMemphis, Tennessee Private nonprofit, 4-yearEasy to get into,87% admitted
Average GPA–
SAT, middle 50%460–700 R&W560–680 Math
ACT, middle 50%19–24
Maryville CollegeMaryville, Tennessee Private nonprofit, 4-yearFairly easy to get into,61% admitted
Average GPA–
SAT, middle 50%–
ACT, middle 50%–
Fisk UniversityNashville, Tennessee Private nonprofit, 4-yearModerate to get into,37% admitted
Average GPA–
SAT, middle 50%570–720 R&W570–790 Math
ACT, middle 50%19–24
The University of Tennessee SouthernPulaski, Tennessee Public, 4-yearEasy to get into,87% admitted
Average GPA–
SAT, middle 50%435–555 R&W470–555 Math
ACT, middle 50%18–24
King UniversityBristol, Tennessee Private nonprofit, 4-yearEasy to get into,100% admitted
Average GPA–
SAT, middle 50%–
ACT, middle 50%–
Tusculum UniversityGreeneville, Tennessee Private nonprofit, 4-yearFairly easy to get into,72% admitted
Average GPA–
SAT, middle 50%–
ACT, middle 50%–
Tennessee Wesleyan UniversityAthens, Tennessee Private nonprofit, 4-yearFairly easy to get into,69% admitted
Average GPA–
SAT, middle 50%–
ACT, middle 50%19–23
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How to read the figures

Example: how a college appears in the list
University of MichiganAnn Arbor, Michigan Public, 4-yearHard to get into,16% admitted
Average GPA3.90As reported by the college for 2025⁠–⁠26
SAT, middle 50%680–750 R&W680–780 Math
ACT, middle 50%31–34
  • How hard it is to get in: the share of first-year applicants the college admitted for fall 2024. Very hard is under 10%, Hard 10–24%, Moderate 25–49%, Fairly easy 50–74% and Easy 75% or more. Open admission colleges accept everyone, so they have no rate.
  • Average GPA: the average high school GPA of the college's first-year students, from the college's own yearly report (its Common Data Set), with the year and, when the college says, whether it's weighted. Colleges calculate GPA in different ways, so use it as a rough guide, not a cutoff.
  • Safety, Target and Reach: with your GPA in the box, where it fits at each college that reports an average GPA. Your GPA is compared with the college's average (0.15 or more above it, close to it, or below it), and the acceptance rate decides how much that counts: a college that admits under 15% of applicants is a reach for everyone. Colleges that don't report an average get no label: we never estimate one.
  • SAT: the middle 50% of scores of first-year students who sent them, for reading and writing (R&W) and math. A quarter scored below the range and a quarter above it.
  • ACT: the middle 50% of overall ACT scores, read the same way.

A dash means the college didn't report that figure.

Where the data comes from

FigureSourceData year
Acceptance rate, SAT and ACT rangesThe U.S. Department of Education's yearly college surveyFall 2024
Average high school GPA (268 colleges)Each college's own yearly report (Common Data Set)2023–24 to 2025–26
Average SAT for the SAT filter and sortCollege Scorecard, U.S. Department of EducationLatest available

Each college's page also has its enrollment, net price, admission factors and policies on AP and dual credit from the same survey, and gives the year of every figure. Admission policies change every year, so check anything important with the college's admissions office.

Sources

Reviewed by the GPA Calculator team · Updated October 2026

  1. IPEDS: Integrated Postsecondary Education Data SystemU.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics
  2. College Scorecard dataU.S. Department of Education (June 10, 2026 release)
  3. Common Data Set InitiativeThe standard format colleges use to publish their own admissions data