Texas Tech Facts

Enrollment at Texas Tech University, including our Law and Graduate Schools but not including programs at the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, totals 28,200.
We have successful and diverse graduate and undergraduate programs in the Colleges of Architecture, Agriculture and Natural Resources, Arts and Sciences, Business, Education, Engineering, Honors, Human Sciences, and Visual and Performing Arts.
Last year we conferred 176 doctoral degrees, 226 law degrees, 1,143 master’s degrees, and 4,316 bachelor’s degrees.
Courses in the liberal arts and sciences form the educational core for all undergraduate students at Texas Tech University. The average SAT for all entering students is 1131.
The average SAT for entering Honors students is 1322, and a freshman retention rate of over 90% indicates a high degree of satisfaction with our flourishing Honors College.
Our undergraduate research emphasis attracts record numbers of top students into such opportunities as the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and the Goldwater Scholars Program.
Our graduate-on-time program has been heralded as a model for public universities.

Funded research at Texas Tech University, not including the Health Sciences Center, now totals about $50 million per year, and we aim to double that amount soon.
Our university library system is ranked in the top half of the 124 distinguished members of the Association of Research Libraries.
Innovation and excellence in teaching are supported by our unique Teaching, Learning, and Technology Center and by our Teaching Academy. Texas Tech University has also recently been named a Cluster Leader in the Carnegie Academy Campus Program.
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