Facilities and Services

Admissions

The Office of Undergraduate Admissions provides personalized and customized services throughout the enrollment process from the generation of initial interest, recruitment, campus visits and events, and admission to the eventual enrollment of qualified and diverse freshman and transfer students. The office is located in West Hall and reports through the Division of Student Affairs.

 

Athletic Facilities, NCAA Programs

As a member of the National Collegiate Athletic Association and the Big 12 Conference, Texas Tech provides intercollegiate athletic programs for men and women. Both programs operate under NCAA and Big 12 rules and regulations as well as under the auspices of the Texas Tech Athletic Council whose membership represents the faculty, student body, Alumni Association, and a member-at-large appointed by the university president.

Athletic activities are organized under the Director of Athletics with head coaches in each of the sports responsible to the director. Texas Tech began competing in the Big 12 Conference in 1996 after a 35-year membership in the former Southwest Conference.

Women athletes compete in intercollegiate volleyball, soccer, cross country, basketball, golf, tennis, softball, and track and field. The women’s program has grown rapidly since 1974 with teams participating in state, regional, and national competitions. In 1993 the Lady Raider basketball team claimed the school’s first NCAA National Championship. The men’s program includes football, basketball, cross country, track and field, baseball, golf, and tennis.

Jones AT&T Stadium is named for Texas Tech’s late President Emeritus Clifford B. Jones and his wife Audrey and for SBC Communications. While SBC’s gift of $20 million enabled renovation of the stadium in 2003, the Jones family provided the initial funds to permit construction of the stadium in 1947. Because SBC Communications acquired AT&T in 2005 and chose to keep the AT&T name, the former Jones SBC Stadium was renamed and became the only collegiate athletic facility in the nation with the AT&T name.

The 2003 renovation added a new west side building, complete with 54 luxury suites, a club level, and press and camera levels. In 2006 the Board of Regents approved future expansion to the east side of the stadium and an estimated 10,000 additional seats.

Dan Law Field hosts the university’s baseball team and debuted a new state-of-the-art scoreboard two years ago. Track events are held at the R.P. “Bob” Fuller Track Complex, and soccer events are held at the John Walker Soccer Complex. Basketball games tip off in the 15,098-seat United Spirit Arena, one of the finest on-campus basketball-volleyball facilities in the nation.

The Texas Tech softball and tennis programs are enjoying the Don and Ethel McLeod Tennis Complex and the Rocky Johnson Field. The university’s golf teams also began their first season at The Rawls Course in 2003. Named after Texas Tech alumnus Jerry S. Rawls, who provided an $8.6 million gift for construction of the course, The Rawls Course was named as one of the nation’s “Top 10 New Courses” by Golf Magazine.

The Marsha Sharp Center for Student Athletes opened in 2004 and features classrooms, a computer lab, a resource library, tutoring rooms, private study areas, and administrative offices.

During inclement weather, Texas Tech athletes can practice in the spacious Athletic Training Center, located just south of Jones AT&T Stadium. The facility contains over 3 million cubic feet of space, making it the largest full-circle membrane structure in the world for use by people. One of its main features is an artificial turf football field that can be rolled out to a maximum length of 60 yards. Other features include a 250-yard circular track and 10,000 square feet of weight training facilities.

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Bookstore

Barnes and Noble at Texas Tech is the university’s bookstore and is located in the Student Union Building. As the supplier for all required and recommended textbooks and supplies for students, it offers a large selection of used books and will buy back books from students at the end of each semester (prices based on books used for following semester).

The bookstore offers a wide selection of reference and general interest books as well as study guides, exam books, technical books, and bestsellers. In addition, the bookstore carries a variety of Texas Tech apparel and giftware; art, school, and engineering supplies; convenience items; and much more. Services include textbook reservations and special orders. The bookstore also houses a Barnes and Noble Cafe that serves Starbuck’s coffee.

The bookstore accepts personal checks, major credit cards, and TechExpress. Store hours are
7:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays.

Contact information: http://texastech.bkstore.com, 806.742.3816.

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Broadcasting

KOHM-FM. Licensed and owned by Texas Tech, KOHM-FM is a classical music and news station that broadcasts on a frequency of 89.1 at 70,000 watts. A professionally staffed division of the Office of the Provost, KOHM-FM operates 24 hours a day, seven days a week, providing service to over 21,000 South Plains listeners within a 75-mile radius of Lubbock. Recognized by the Corporation of Public Broadcasting as a fully operational public radio station, KOHM-FM offers unique programming from National Public Radio, American Public Media, and Public Radio International networks as well as classical music, jazz, local news, feature stories and support for other fine arts and events. While the station is 60 percent listener supported, the additional funding is supplied by grants, underwriting, and limited financial support from Texas Tech. As of spring 2007, KOHM-FM also features Lubbock’s first digital broadcast radio signal using HD radio technology and adding two additional stations to its existing frequency.

KTXT–TV.A noncommercial educational television station, KTXT-TV (Channel 5.1 in HD) is licensed by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to the university’s Board of Regents and operates as a division within the Office of the Provost.

Channel 5’s office, studio, production, master control, transmitters, engineering facilities and 817-foot antenna-tower are located on the southwestern campus triangle west of Indiana Avenue. The station broadcasts diverse digital programming 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The signal coverage zone encompasses Lubbock and thirteen surrounding counties and serves 157,000 households.

KTXT-TV is a member of the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), a noncommercial network of 356 television stations interconnected by satellite. Staffed by professional personnel, the station produces digital programming to satisfy the broadcasting and non-broadcasting needs of the university and surrounding communities.

Much of KTXT-TV’s programming is available for use in the classroom. In addition, the station purchases, produces, or otherwise acquires instructional television series designed as college-credit courses or as informal noncredit courses to broadcast on special schedules as a service to the university, schools, business, and viewers. KTXT-TV’s outreach department offers extensive workshop topics for teachers, parents and caregivers and hosts educational outreach events.

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Computing Services

The Information Technology (IT) Division (www.infotech.ttu.edu) provides a wide range of computing resources, services, and support for students, faculty, and staff at Texas Tech University. Some of the key services provided to the university community are open access student computing facilities, free short courses, computer-based training modules (www.cbt.ttu.edu), personal Web pages, email (TechMail), secure remote network access, Help Desk operations, desktop support, secure wireless networking, video conference facilities, and consulting. The Office of the CIO, as part of the Safe Computing Practices Campaign, hosts educational events each month and other educational resources to raise IT security awareness in the Texas Tech community (www.safecomputing.ttu.edu).

Technology Assessment (www.depts.ttu.edu/itta) provides timely and objective information and analysis of current and emerging technologies. The department helps customers keep current with technology news and trends and provides the concise information necessary for customers to make decisions regarding technology. Various levels of assessments of technology and technology-related issues are available, ranging from short briefs to comprehensive studies.

Technology Support (www.itts.ttu.edu) provides quality user services and operates the Advanced Technology Learning Center (ATLC) in the west basement of the Texas Tech Library. The 25,000-square-foot ATLC facility provides leading-edge computing technology to the university community. The Technology Support staff teaches short courses, manages university site licenses, creates documentation, and develops enterprise-level applications. Technology Support also manages five remote labs located throughout the campus (www.depts.ttu.edu/itts/labs).

IT Help Desk (www.helpdesk.ttu.edu) is an excellent IT service that provides students, faculty, and staff with a friendly IT “front line” for the university community. IT Help Central is the primary point of contact for those needing assistance regarding a technology issue. Help Desk services are structured to escalate questions, problems, and concerns from the user community to the proper IT staff member and track the incident until it is resolved (T 742.HELP).

Telecommunications (www.net.ttu.edu) architects and manages the Texas Tech community data and video network, TTUnet, secure wireless network access in academic areas, and wide-area Internet and Internet2 connections. Telecommunications directly supports education, research, and public service by planning and administering the development, acquisition, repair, maintenance, and delivery of network services. Telecommunications also provides the eRaider network authentication account that allows access to various IT services, including email.

High Performance Computing Center (www.hpcc.ttu.edu) manages several research computing clusters and initiatives. In addition, TTU participates in local, regional, and national grid projects. A local resource is TechGrid, which consists of more than 300 CPU’s. Faculty and researchers are welcome to take advantage of these services.

Institutional Research and Information Management provides precise statistical and management information to all units of the university, regulators, and others (www.irs.ttu.edu). This information includes statistics on students, faculty, semester credit hours, and course evaluations.

In addition to the IT Division resources, the Texas Tech System provides the following IT resources:

• Communication Services (www.itcs.ttu.edu) assists if you need a new telephone (office or cellular), additional telephone line, or voice mail; if your telephone is not working; or if you need a telephone number for someone on campus. For any of these needs, contact Communications Services at 806.742.2000.
• Information Systems (www.depts.ttu.edu/itis) develops and supports legacy and intranet systems for Texas Tech University and the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center. Major systems supported by Information Systems are student information, human resources, payroll, accounting, and budget.
• Technology Operations and Systems Management staff members (www.tosm.ttu.edu) are available to answer the following questions: Do you have server administration, management, or support? Are you confident the data on your server is being backed up properly? Do you have questions about distributed mainframe print? TOSM also hosts the IBM 9672-R26 mainframe system supporting administrative, instructional, and research activities and offers such services as general purpose computation, optical scanning, and large-scale laser printing.

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Copy, Digital Printing, and Fax Services

CopyTech, a quick-service digital printing and copy facility has locations in the PrinTech building at Main and Flint, as well as in 104 Student Union Building. CopyTech offers high-volume, high quality black and white digital copies, self-service copies, digital color copies, laminating, transparencies, folding, binding, course packs production, copyright clearance service, and fax services. CopyTech provides free pickup and delivery to all campus locations and accepts cash, checks, credit cards, TechExpress cards, and departmental account numbers. Call 806.742.2321 for information and pick- up services.

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Distance and Off-Campus Education

The College of Outreach and Distance Education (CODE) offers the Bachelor of General Studies degree on campus and at a distance and coordinates distance education offerings as well as programs offered at off-campus locations in Abilene, Amarillo, El Paso, Fredericksburg, Highland Lakes (Marble Falls), Junction, and Waco.

Additionally, CODE administers self-paced, independent study print- and web-based distance learning programs that include college and K–12 courses for credit, and an accredited K-12 diploma-granting program (Texas Tech University Independent School District). CODE offers non-credit community outreach programs for both students and adults through the Outdoor School at TTU Center at Junction, Study with the Masters, and the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Texas Tech University. CODE also assists academic departments in developing and delivering non-credit short courses, certificate programs, customized training, and workshops for professionals.

The main office of the College of Outreach and Distance Education is located at 605 Indiana Avenue adjacent to the International Cultural Center.

For undergraduate degree requirements, click here.

Semester-Based Degrees, Certificates, and Certification Programs

Degrees at a distance are delivered through a variety of methods, including online, interactive video conferencing (IVC), chat, and e-mail. Some programs require students to attend face-to-face meetings or classes at a particular location. The College of Outreach and Distance Education (CODE) offers the Bachelor of General Studies degree on-campus and at a distance and coordinates other distance education offerings as well as programs offered at off-campus educational sites. With the exception of the Bachelor of General Studies, students participating in the CODE programs listed below must be admitted to the college that offers the program.

Degrees

• Bachelor of General Studies
• Bachelor of Science in Horticultural and Turfgrass Sciences
• Master of Agriculture
• Master of Arts in Technical Communication
• Master of Education in Instructional Technology
• Master of Education in Special Education (emphasis available in Deaf Education, Dual Sensory Impairments, Educational Diagnostician, Generic Special Education, Orientation and Mobility, and Visual Impairment)
• Master of Engineering
• Master of Science in Agricultural Education
• Master of Science in Crop Science
• Master of Science in Family and Consumer Science Education*
• Master of Science in Horticultural and Turfgrass Sciences
• Master of Science in Human Development and Family Studies emphasis on Gerontology*
• Master of Science in Restaurant, Hotel, and Institutional Management
• Master of Science in Software Engineering
• Master of Science in Systems and Engineering Management
• Ed.D. in Agricultural Education (joint program with Texas A&M)
• Ph.D. in Technical Communication and Rhetoric
• Eight additional undergraduate and graduate degrees are offered only at specific off-campus sites. Below is a listing of the off-campus sites.

Graduate Certificates

• Autism (Texas Tech University)
• Crop Protection (Texas Tech University)
• Dual Sensory Impairments (Texas Tech University)
• Fibers and Textiles (Texas Tech University)
• Gerontology*
• Healthcare Change Program (CHC) Also available for undergraduates
• Horticultural Landscape Management (Texas Tech University)
• Software Engineering (Texas Tech University)
• Soil Management (Texas Tech University)

Graduate Certificate Preparation Programs

• Deaf and Hard of Hearing (Texas State Board for Educator Certification)
• Educational Diagnostician (Texas State Board for Educator Certification)
• Family and Consumer Sciences Education (FCSE) Teacher Education**
• Generic Special Education (Texas State Board for Educator Certification)
• Orientation and Mobility (National Certification in Orientation and Mobility through the Association for Education and Rehabilitation of the Blind and Visually Impaired [AER])
• Visual Impairment (Texas State Board for Educator Certification)

* Inter-institutional program offered through the Great Plains Interactive Distance Education
   Alliance – GPIDEA
** Inter-institutional program offered through the Family and Consumer Science Alliance

Self-Paced, Independent Study Offerings

• Bachelor of General Studies
• More than 60 courses

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