Spring 2025 Campus Expansion

| January 21, 2025

Facilities growth represents an investment in areas of study that will solve problems, improve the social good, and supply a skilled regional workforce. MTSU has been blessed with more than $1.5 billion in campus improvements and renovations during my tenure as president.

Here are updates on our current major projects:

Applied Engineering Building (opens in 2025)

  • $74.8 million project

  • more than $1 million in automation equipment

  • 89,000-square-foot facility

  • will house MTSU’s renowned Mechatronics Engineering program and Engineering Technology

  • will provide enhanced student opportunities for faculty-led research and labs for student teams, including the Experimental Vehicles Program and robotics competitions

  • represents the finishing touch to MTSU’s Science Corridor of Innovation, which also includes the $40.1 million Concrete and Construction management building, two renovated science buildings, and the 250,000-square-foot Science Building, which opened in 2014 as the single largest investment by the state for an academic facility

Kirksey Old Main and Rutledge Hall (completion expected by summer 2026)

  • $54.3 million renovation to two of MTSU’s original buildings

  • iconic columns of KOM, the first building on campus founded in 1911, will be preserved

  • KOM to remain home to Mathematical Sciences, Computer Science, and Data Science

  • Rutledge being transformed from a dormitory to an academic building that houses the University Studies Department

Student-Athlete Performance Center

  • $66 million project

  • first stage of redevelopment of the entire northwest corner of the MTSU campus envisioned in the MTSU Athletics Master Plan

  • small section of outdoor loge seating to be added to the north end of Floyd Stadium

  • 75,000-square-foot facility to include training spaces, strength and conditioning rooms, locker rooms, meeting space, and offices to serve MTSU Athletics and student-athletes

Aerospace Project–Shelbyville (estimated completion by fall 2027)

  • $62.2 million total project cost

  • estimated $50.2 million construction cost

  • site located along Highway 231 and just west of the Shelbyville Municipal Airport

  • includes facilities for the Professional Pilot concentration: 50,000-square-foot net space for main academic building(s), including classroom, dispatch, faculty and staff offices, flight briefing; 28,000-square-foot hangar to maintain Professional Pilot aircraft fleet; site and utility improvements for 16-acre parcel


 

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