Tennessee Technological University is a great school if you know how to navigate through things: how to organize your schedule and class time (this will allow you the perfect balance between school work and personal life), how to choose professors (there are some great professors who can teach but at the same time engage with students and inspire them, and some average professors who can give you the content to study), how to manage personal life (Tennnesse is a particular state and in some cases, you will experience and have a conversation with people whose radical principals are quite different from yours). In the end, it comes down to how well you manage all these aspects. But overall, the academic experience is good in terms of quality. The location of the University is not great, Cookeville is a small town, but the beautiful campus makes for it.