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Texas Tech offers graduate study opportunities that are affordable when compared to other institutions. Texas Tech is outstanding among the state’s universities for its reasonable costs and its ability to help many graduate students with some form of financial assistance. With the below-average cost of living in Lubbock, graduate education at Texas Tech is an exceptional investment value.

Graduate Program Tuition. A complete explanation of tuition and fees is available online at www.sbs.ttu.edu.

Residency Status Determination. For rules governing the determination of residency status as defined by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, see the Web site: www.thecb.state.tx.us/Rules/tac3.cfm?Chapter_ID=21&Subchapter=X.

Financial Assistance. Financial opportunities are available through both the Graduate School and graduate academic departments. The Graduate School coordinates and disburses several scholarships and fellowships each year for new and continuing master’s, doctoral, full-time and part-time students, including the AT&T Chancellor’s Fellowship to aid departments in attracting new graduate students to Texas Tech. The majority of deadlines are in the spring for awards for the upcoming fall and spring semesters. Many departments also support graduate students through scholarships and assistantship positions that must be requested from the specific department. Applications and detailed information are available at www.depts.ttu.edu/gradschool/scholarships.

Academic Common Market. Texas Tech participates in the Academic Common Market, an interstate agreement that provides reciprocal higher education opportunities to citizens of states declared as parties to the Southern Regional Education Compact. Graduate students who are from these states and are admitted into approved out-of-state programs qualify for resident tuition if the program of study is not offered in their home state.

Approved programs at Texas Tech University and the member states from which qualified students may gain resident tuition are as follows:

• Master of Architecture (Alabama, Kentucky)
• Master of Science, Doctor of Philosophy—Range Science (Arkansas, Louisiana)
• Doctor of Philosophy—Fine Arts (Arkansas, Louisiana, Tennessee, Virginia)
• Doctor of Philosophy—Home Economics Education (Kentucky)
• Doctor of Philosophy—Land-Use Planning, Management, and Design (Alabama, Arkansas, Kentucky, Louisiana,  Virginia)
• Doctor of Philosophy—Marriage and Family Therapy (Kentucky)
• Doctor of Philosophy—Technical Communication and Rhetoric (Tennessee)

Two steps are necessary to qualify for these programs: (1) Applicants must be accepted into a program for which an interstate agreement has been arranged, and (2) applicants must submit to Student Business Services proof of legal residency in a member state by providing documentation from the qualifying state’s Coordinating Board or Board of Regents.

A list of state coordinators is available from the Southern Regional Education Board, 1340 Spring Street, N.W., Atlanta, GA 30309. For information about the ACM program in Texas, contact the Program Development Division of Senior Colleges and Universities, Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, Box 12788, Capitol Station, TX 78711.

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