Coming Fall 2027
The new Student Success Center
A hub for academics, student wellness, and career readiness. Opening its doors Fall 2027, the University of Tennessee, Knoxville’s Student Success Center will bring academic resources, career services, and targeted student support to the heart of campus. The new 116,000-square-foot building will house informal study spaces, advising and coaching offices, and specialized programming, intentionally designed for the UT student of today and the future Vols of tomorrow.
Building the future
Fall 2027
The Student Success Center is being designed by Hastings Architecture and built by Hoar Construction in partnership with UT Capital Projects and UT Facilities. Located on the original site of Melrose Hall, the building will open in Fall 2027.
Building at a glance
Fall 2027
Grand opening
116,000
Square feet of space dedicated to student success
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High-tech classrooms where ideas are born and debated
Open late
Open late, academic coaches available afterhours for extended support
Supporting academic achievement
The Student Success Center will be the new home for student success, bringing together support resources into one student-focused location.
Academic Success Center
Academic coaching, peer to peer tutoring, and learning strategy support
Center for Career Development & Academic Exploration
Career coaching, major exploration, and preparing for what’s next
University Honors
Haslam Leadership Scholars and Chancellor’s Honors
First-Year Experience and Transition
Orientation, FYE programming, and first-year transition
Veterans Success Center
Academic and transition support for student veterans
Veterans Benefit Administration
VA benefits processing on campus
Vol Study Center
Quiet study space and academic support drop-in
Undergraduate Research and Fellowships
Student research mentoring and national-fellowship advising
From the senior vice provost
Students will find academic support, strengths coaching, career services and program offices all under one roof. This will not only be efficient for students but also allow them to collaborate and engage with other students as well as faculty and staff who support their academic, wellness and career journey. But the new piece, the real magic, is how the building will provide space for radical collaboration, where inquiry, academic support, strengths coaching and curiosity collide, creating a powerful synergy that will elevate every student’s experience.
Amber Williams
Senior Vice Provost for Student Success & Chief Honors Officer
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
A hub for student success and collaboration
UT Celebrates Groundbreaking for New Student Success Building
Wearing white hats and holding orange shovels, university leaders officially break ground on the new Student Success Building.
New UT Building Brings Inspiration to Scholars
Knox News covers the groundbreaking and the building’s role on campus, calling the Student Success Center ‘the academic heartbeat’ of UT.
See it come together
Watch live as we build the future of student success. A camera located at the site of the new Student Success Center will capture each milestone from the groundbreaking to opening day in Fall 2027.
Learn more about student success at UT
The Student Success Center is one piece of how UT is investing in the success of each student. Explore the Division, meet our leadership team, read our mission, and get to know the departments that champion student success.