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“Overwhelmingly you just hear about Austin Peay’s nursing program. In high school, it’s all I heard – Austin Peay has a good nursing program. It’s the best public nursing program you can get in Tennessee.”

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Clarksville, Tennessee

As Tennessee's youngest city by median age, APSU is surrounded by a thriving community, named as 2019's #1 Best Place to Live in America by Money Magazine. Set against the Cumberland River, Clarksville offers outdoor activities, great restaurants, and local theatre. Not to mention, we're just 45 minutes from Nashville.

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Austin Peay to present world premiere of John Patrick Shanley's 'Five Savory Dishes'

From Thursday, Nov. 21-Sunday, Nov. 24, APSU Department of Theatre and Dance and the Center of Excellence for the Creative Arts (CECA) will present "Five Savory Dishes" - a world premiere evening of one-act plays written Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright John Patrick Shanley.

Austin Peay's 'phage hunters' join front lines of medical research

Ten APSU students are taking part in Science Education Alliance-Phage Hunters Advancing Genomics and Evolutionary Science, a yearlong laboratory course in which students discover, isolate and analyze bacteria-infecting viruses called bacteriophages.

Photos: Scenes from Saturday's Homecoming celebrations

Homecoming Week at Austin Peay State University culminated on Saturday night with the Veterans Homecoming Parade, the Homecoming game, the crowning of the Homecoming king and queen, the Alumni Awards Lunch and the NPHC Homecoming Step Show.