About Texas Tech University
For more than 75 years, Texas Tech University has served as a beacon of excellence in education and research on the South Plains of the Lone Star State. The university’s more than 28,000 students can choose from 117 bachelor’s, 104 master’s and 59 doctoral degrees in agricultural sciences & natural resources, architecture, arts & sciences, education, engineering, human sciences, mass communications, visual and performing arts, business administration and the law.
Texas Tech University is one of the largest research facilities in the state. Currently in the running for the President George W. Bush Presidential Library, the university is home to several libraries including the Southwest Collections/Special Collections Library and the Vietnam Center, the nation’s largest repository outside of Washington, D.C., for information on the Vietnam War.
In the past five years, Texas Tech has added more than $500 million in new construction and has hired more than 125 new faculty members. The four-year graduation rate is at 55 percent, up 15 percent from five years ago. Graduate enrollment has grown by a third in the last five years.
Founded on Feb. 10, 1923, the university originally was known as Texas Technological College. The school opened with six buildings and 914 students in 1925. Texas Tech opened the School of Law in 1967, changed its name to Texas Tech University in 1969, and opened the School of Medicine in 1972. Groundbreaking for the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center began in 1973. Texas Tech has a major educational impact on West Texas and the world with off-campus sites in six locations and health sciences campuses in four cities. The 1,839-acre Lubbock campus is one of the largest in the nation.
