Texas Tech University

Texas Tech University is a public research university in Lubbock, Texas. It opened in 1923 as Texas Technological College and took its present name in 1969. The main campus covers about 1,800 acres of Spanish Renaissance buildings on the South Plains and is the flagship of the Texas Tech University System, with colleges in agriculture, engineering, arts, and the professions.

Academic work runs through more than a dozen colleges, including the Whitacre College of Engineering, the Rawls College of Business, the School of Law, and the College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources. Graduate research concentrates in engineering, wind science, agriculture, and the physical sciences, supported by the National Wind Institute and by collaboration with the separate Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center.

Enrollment is about 40,000, including several thousand graduate and professional students. International students form a modest share of the body and come from dozens of countries. Faculty number in the thousands. Alumni include National Football League quarterback Patrick Mahomes, basketball player Sheryl Swoopes, and comedy writer Angela Kinsey.

Doctoral degrees are the principal research credential in the sciences and engineering, with supervision inside departments and institutes. Coursework master's degrees and the J.D. follow a semester calendar. Research assistantships and fellowships are the usual support for dissertation students. Lubbock is a mid-sized High Plains city, and graduate life is largely on the contiguous campus.

In the Grad School Navigator directory, Texas Tech University lists 4 graduate programs across 4 subjects, all of them doctoral programs, with the widest choice in computer science, finance & financial economics and mathematics.