In the beginning The University of Tennessee [UT] was known as Blount College, and had an all male student body. The first female students were accepted in 1982. From then on UT was home to a coed student body. | In the beginning The University of Tennessee [UT] was known as Blount College, and had an all male student body. The first female students were accepted in 1982. From then on UT was home to a coed student body. |