The University
Founded in 1923, Texas Tech University is a state-supported, coeducational institution with a total student population of more than 27,000 located in the West Texas city of Lubbock (population 200,000). The beautiful, spacious campus - one of the largest in the nation - is well equipped not only for research and study, but also for cultural and recreational activities. The Graduate School of Texas Tech, with a current enrollment of some 4,000 graduate and professional students, operates as an integral component of the University. In addition to the Graduate School, the University consists of the instructional colleges of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources, Architecture, Arts and Sciences, Business Administration, Education, Engineering, and Human Sciences, the School of Law, and a number of special departments and divisions. Texas Tech University is fully accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools; its various programs are accredited by their associations. The Texas Tech Health Sciences Center functions as a separate institution that includes the School of Medicine, the School of Nursing, and the School of Allied Health.
Texas Tech's students can stroll across its 1,839-acre campus featuring expansive lawns and impressive landscaping together with unique Spanish Renaissance style red-tile-roofed buildings. This beautiful, spacious campus, one of the largest in the nation, is well-equipped not only for research and study, but also for varied cultural and recreational activities.
Besides the main campus, the University operates a number of other facilities, including the Research Center--East Campus (Lubbock), research facilities at Reese Center, agricultural field laboratories at New Deal, and satellite medical facilities at Amarillo, El Paso, and Midland-Odessa. Also outside the Lubbock campus is the Texas Tech University Center in the Texas Panhandle, an agricultural facility and research farm spanning 16,000 acres.
Opportunities for a fulfilling campus life after hours include an expansive Student Recreation and Aquatic Center that contains an Olympic-size indoor-outdoor swimming pool; handball-racquetball courts; squash courts; multipurpose rooms for martial arts, wrestling, tumbling, fencing, indoor archery, golf, and dance; a gymnasium for basketball, tennis, volleyball, or badminton; weight areas, saunas, and a lounge.