OVERVIEW

Biology, as its etymological roots indicate, is the study of life. As such, it a field that is as diverse as it is exciting. Students completing one of the undergraduate degrees offered in our department will finish well poised to pursue career opportunities, graduate studies, as well as a wide variety of professional career paths such as medicine, dentistry, and veterinary medicine. Regardless of your chosen career path, our faculty and advisors here at Texas Tech are dedicated to your success through educational excellence.

Here you can read through these pages for more specific information about the degrees we offer. Our undergraduate advisors would be pleased to meet with you in person to discuss additional details about each program.

UNDERGRADUATE MAJORS

Choosing one of the majors we offer is an excellent choice for many Texas Tech students. Our degrees not only provide an exceptional segue into fulfilling careers in science and medicine, but also our curriculum broadly provides the intrinsically valuable educational knowledge and experience that only a liberal arts degree in natural science can provide.

Please read on to learn more about each degree. 

ADVISING

All students in Biological Sciences are assigned to an academic advisor by last name. Students are welcome and encouraged to schedule an appointment with their academic advisor on a regular basis not just when you have a registration hold.

Biology advising at Texas Tech is not about meeting as a roadblock to registering for classes, it is about making collaborative decisions with your advisor that will help you meet your educational goals. We see advising as a relationship with equal parts of responsibility and engage in productive discussions on achieving educational and career goals.

Advising Appointments & Important Dates

RESEARCH

Students who participate in science, technology, engineering, or math undergraduate research learn by doing. They are directly involved in a research project in their faculty mentor's laboratory. They become a part of the laboratory research group and discuss their research with faculty and undergraduate and graduate students. Undergraduate research students are given the opportunity to attend scientific meetings, present papers at these meetings, and often can publish their results in scientific journals.

Research Opportunities