diff --git a/api-generator/components/tieredmenu.js b/api-generator/components/tieredmenu.js
index 3d76587ab..7d8b2c1e0 100644
--- a/api-generator/components/tieredmenu.js
+++ b/api-generator/components/tieredmenu.js
@@ -28,6 +28,12 @@ const TieredMenuProps = [
         type: "boolean",
         default: "true",
         description: "Whether to automatically manage layering."
+    },
+    {
+        name: "exact",
+        type: "boolean",
+        default: "true",
+        description: "Whether to apply 'router-link-active-exact' class if route exactly matches the item path."
     }
 ];
 
diff --git a/src/components/tieredmenu/TieredMenu.d.ts b/src/components/tieredmenu/TieredMenu.d.ts
index cc07f9d13..cb5724f91 100755
--- a/src/components/tieredmenu/TieredMenu.d.ts
+++ b/src/components/tieredmenu/TieredMenu.d.ts
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ interface TieredMenuProps {
     appendTo?: string;
     autoZIndex?: boolean;
     baseZIndex?: number;
+    exact?: boolean;
 }
 
 declare class TieredMenu {
diff --git a/src/components/tieredmenu/TieredMenu.vue b/src/components/tieredmenu/TieredMenu.vue
index 8d6829062..274d63004 100755
--- a/src/components/tieredmenu/TieredMenu.vue
+++ b/src/components/tieredmenu/TieredMenu.vue
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
     <Teleport :to="appendTo" :disabled="!popup">
         <transition name="p-connected-overlay" @enter="onEnter" @leave="onLeave" @after-leave="onAfterLeave">
             <div :ref="containerRef" :class="containerClass" v-if="popup ? visible : true" v-bind="$attrs" @click="onOverlayClick">
-                <TieredMenuSub :model="model" :root="true" :popup="popup" @leaf-click="onLeafClick" :template="$slots.item" />
+                <TieredMenuSub :model="model" :root="true" :popup="popup" @leaf-click="onLeafClick" :template="$slots.item" :exact="exact" />
             </div>
         </transition>
     </Teleport>
@@ -36,6 +36,10 @@ export default {
         baseZIndex: {
             type: Number,
             default: 0
+        },
+        exact: {
+            type: Boolean,
+            default: true
         }
     },
     target: null,
diff --git a/src/components/tieredmenu/TieredMenuSub.vue b/src/components/tieredmenu/TieredMenuSub.vue
index 0ad48dfe9..47f47dc67 100755
--- a/src/components/tieredmenu/TieredMenuSub.vue
+++ b/src/components/tieredmenu/TieredMenuSub.vue
@@ -4,13 +4,13 @@
             <li :class="getItemClass(item)" :style="item.style" v-if="visible(item) && !item.separator"
                 @mouseenter="onItemMouseEnter($event, item)" role="none">
                 <template v-if="!template">
-                    <router-link v-if="item.to && !disabled(item)" :to="item.to" custom v-slot="{navigate, href}">
-                        <a :href="href" @click="onItemClick($event, item, navigate)" :class="getLinkClass(item)" v-ripple @keydown="onItemKeyDown($event, item)" role="menuitem">
+                    <router-link v-if="item.to && !disabled(item)" :to="item.to" custom v-slot="{navigate, href, isActive, isExactActive}">
+                        <a :href="href" @click="onItemClick($event, item, navigate)" :class="linkClass(item, {isActive, isExactActive})" v-ripple @keydown="onItemKeyDown($event, item)" role="menuitem">
                             <span :class="['p-menuitem-icon', item.icon]"></span>
                             <span class="p-menuitem-text">{{item.label}}</span>
                         </a>
                     </router-link>
-                    <a v-else :href="item.url" :class="getLinkClass(item)" :target="item.target" :aria-haspopup="item.items != null" :aria-expanded="item === activeItem"
+                    <a v-else :href="item.url" :class="linkClass(item)" :target="item.target" :aria-haspopup="item.items != null" :aria-expanded="item === activeItem"
                         @click="onItemClick($event, item)" @keydown="onItemKeyDown($event, item)" role="menuitem" :tabindex="disabled(item) ? null : '0'" v-ripple>
                         <span :class="['p-menuitem-icon', item.icon]"></span>
                         <span class="p-menuitem-text">{{item.label}}</span>
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
                 </template>
                 <component v-else :is="template" :item="item"></component>
                 <TieredMenuSub :model="item.items" v-if="visible(item) && item.items" :key="item.label + '_sub_'" :template="template"
-                    @leaf-click="onLeafClick" @keydown-item="onChildItemKeyDown" :parentActive="item === activeItem" />
+                    @leaf-click="onLeafClick" @keydown-item="onChildItemKeyDown" :parentActive="item === activeItem" :exact="exact" />
             </li>
             <li :class="['p-menu-separator', item.class]" :style="item.style" v-if="visible(item) && item.separator" :key="'separator' + i.toString()" role="separator"></li>
         </template>
@@ -53,6 +53,10 @@ export default {
         template: {
             type: Object,
             default: null
+        },
+        exact: {
+            type: Boolean,
+            default: true
         }
     },
     documentClickListener: null,
@@ -200,8 +204,12 @@ export default {
                 }
             ]
         },
-        getLinkClass(item) {
-            return ['p-menuitem-link', {'p-disabled': this.disabled(item)}];
+        linkClass(item, routerProps) {
+            return ['p-menuitem-link', {
+                'p-disabled': this.disabled(item),
+                'router-link-active': routerProps && routerProps.isActive,
+                'router-link-active-exact': this.exact && routerProps && routerProps.isExactActive
+            }];
         },
         bindDocumentClickListener() {
             if (!this.documentClickListener) {
diff --git a/src/views/tieredmenu/TieredMenuDoc.vue b/src/views/tieredmenu/TieredMenuDoc.vue
index 41b6cafb1..06ba69ab0 100755
--- a/src/views/tieredmenu/TieredMenuDoc.vue
+++ b/src/views/tieredmenu/TieredMenuDoc.vue
@@ -182,6 +182,18 @@ toggle(event) {
     &lt;/template&gt;
 &lt;/TieredMenu&gt;
 </template>
+</code></pre>
+
+<p><i>router-link</i> with route configuration can also be used within templating for further customization.</p>
+<pre v-code><code><template v-pre>
+&lt;TieredMenu :model="items"&gt;
+    &lt;template #item="{item}"&gt;
+        &lt;router-link :to="item.to" custom v-slot="{href, route, navigate, isActive, isExactActive}"&gt;
+            &lt;a :href="href" @click="navigate" :class="{'active-link': isActive, 'active-link-exact": isExactActive}&gt;{{route.fullPath}}&lt;/a&gt;
+        &lt;/router-link&gt;
+    &lt;/template&gt;
+&lt;/TieredMenu&gt;
+</template>
 </code></pre>
 
         <h5>Properties</h5>
@@ -226,6 +238,12 @@ toggle(event) {
                         <td>boolean</td>
                         <td>true</td>
                         <td>Whether to automatically manage layering.</td>
+                    </tr>
+                    <tr>
+                        <td>exact</td>
+                        <td>boolean</td>
+                        <td>true</td>
+                        <td>Whether to apply 'router-link-active-exact' class if route exactly matches the item path.</td>
                     </tr>
 				</tbody>
 			</table>