Pass the Knoxville GED on your schedule, from Bearden to Fountain City.
Knoxville has no GED test center. The colleges here that advertise equivalency testing run the HiSET, not the GED, and the nearest GED site is Walters State in Morristown, about 41 miles out. Tennessee lets you test online from home for the same $144.
The fast facts for taking the GED in Tennessee — verify on official sources before your test date.
Tennessee High School Equivalency Diploma
HiSET also accepted
Available in Spanish
Facts verified May 31, 2026
Official GED test sites listed by GED Testing Service for the Knoxville metro. Verify hours and seat availability on ged.com before you go.
Local context for prep — testing capacity, college access, statewide pricing, and the always-available online option.
Walters State Community College in Morristown. Nothing in Knox County proctors the GED, and the local college testing centers run the HiSET instead.
$36 a subject, the same at a test center or online from home.
Tennessee allows online testing from home at the same price. With no GED seat in the city, this is the practical route.
Same prep, same teachers, wherever you are. What changes is how the program meets the realities of studying in Knoxville.
With no GED seat in the city, a fixed evening class was never going to be the answer here anyway. Lessons run 6 to 9 minutes and travel with you. Nothing expires if you pick it back up in three weeks, and nothing needs you anywhere at 7pm on a Tuesday.
Knoxville graduates move into Pellissippi State and Roane State certificate tracks, transfer routes toward the University of Tennessee, and the employers hiring across East Tennessee — UT Medical Center, Covenant Health, the contractors around Oak Ridge, and the distribution work along I-40.
Four credentialed teachers, one per subject, seven days a week. Median reply is under four hours. No ticket queue, no chatbot, no waiting until Monday.
Same program, same teachers, different metro. Pick another city or head back to the Tennessee hub for the statewide overview.
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You cannot, and this is the single most important thing on this page. There is no GED test site in Knoxville. The nearest is Walters State Community College in Morristown, about 41 miles north-east, followed by TCAT Crossville at roughly 62 miles. For most people here the answer is to test online from home instead, which Tennessee allows at the same price.
No. Pellissippi State's testing center publishes its full list of exams and it includes the HiSET, not the GED. Tennessee runs both tests, and a site offering one does not offer the other. TCAT Knoxville is a similar trap in a different way: it runs high school equivalency preparation classes rather than proctoring any exam. Several GED directory sites list both as Knoxville GED test centers, and they are wrong. Book only through your GED.com account.
The official test is $36 per subject, or $144 for all four, and the price is identical online. A discounted retake at a test center is $10 a subject, while online retakes stay at full price — though with the nearest center 41 miles away, that discount costs you a round trip to collect. Tennessee Adult Education also issues vouchers that can cover the test entirely if you enroll in a local program.
Eight to fourteen weeks of steady study, and no drive to Morristown unless you want one. Start with the free diagnostic and we will tell you which subjects are ready before you book.
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Center listings refreshed quarterly. The official source is GED Testing Service.
17-year-olds can test after an approved age-waiver form. No residency requirement.
Yes, and given there is no GED seat in the city it is the obvious route. It costs the same $36 a subject, so you are not paying a premium to skip an 82-mile round trip to Morristown. You need a passing score on the official GED Ready practice test first, plus a webcam, a steady connection and a private room where nobody will interrupt you.
Eighteen. A 17-year-old can test after completing the HSE Recommendation for 17-Year-Old Student form, having a superintendent, their designee or a home-school parent sign it, uploading it to the Tennessee Age Waiver site, and being approved by the State Administrator before registering. If a 17-year-old takes the online exam, a parent or guardian has to be present at the pre-test check-in. There is no residency requirement at any age.
Yes, and this is worth separating from the testing question. Pellissippi State, the University of Tennessee, Roane State and Carson-Newman all treat the Tennessee High School Equivalency Diploma as equivalent to a high school diploma for admission. Pellissippi State not proctoring the GED has no bearing on whether it accepts one — it does. Nursing, engineering technology, welding and IT certificates all open up once you hold the credential.
Most students who study consistently for 45 to 60 minutes a day are test-ready in 8 to 14 weeks. Your day-one diagnostic shows which of the four subjects actually need the hours, and the plan adapts from there. There is no minimum preparation time in Tennessee — you sit each subject when you are ready, in any order, and passing scores are held until the set is complete.
