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Welcome to Texas Tech!

Welcome to Texas Tech. This spring semester brings a new energy to campus. As you look around you can see signs of the university’s growth. Our new student leisure pool is open and construction is underway on a new building for the Rawls College of Business Administration and on an expansion to the east side of Jones AT&T Stadium.

There also is a tremendous amount of excitement on campus about some things you may not readily see. Texas Tech is on its way to becoming the state’s next national research university. The Texas Legislature this year put into place criteria and funding sources that give Texas Tech and six other universities the opportunity to achieve that status. I believe we have an excellent chance of reaching our goal.

Our academic excellence is reflected in our Honors College, our chapter of Phi Beta Kappa and membership in the Association of Research Libraries. To reach national research university or Tier One status, Texas Tech must increase its research productivity, hire top quality faculty and researchers and continue to enroll the best and brightest undergraduate and graduate students.

Texas Tech already offers our students an excellent experience inside and outside of the classroom. But our drive to reach National Research University status will heighten the academic experience by providing access to more internationally known scholars and scientists, improved facilities and ultimately a degree from what I believe will soon be one of the great research universities in United States.

Guy Bailey, President