by our College Data Analytics Team
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Texas Tech University was awarded 133 badges in the 2025 rankings. The highest ranked major at the school is music.
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College Factual ranked Texas Tech as #161 out of 2,152 colleges and universities in the country on its 2025 Best Colleges list. This puts it in the top 10% of all schools in the nation. This is an improvement over the previous year, when Texas Tech held the #168 spot on the Best Overall Colleges list.
Texas Tech is also ranked #8 out of 115 schools in Texas.
Texas Tech University has an acceptance rate of 67%, which means the school is serious about who it admits. Take your time in putting together a strong application that highlights why you are a good fit for Texas Tech.
About 34% of students accepted to Texas Tech submitted their SAT scores. When looking at the 25th through the 75th percentile, SAT Evidence-Based Reading and Writing scores ranged between 550 and 640. Math scores were between 540 and 640.
At Texas Tech University, the student to faculty ratio is 21 to 1. Compared to the national average of 15 to 1, this is somewhat high. This could mean that class sizes may be larger than they are at other colleges or universities or that professors may be required to teach more classes.
Another measure that is often used to estimate how much access students will have to their professors is how many faculty members are full-time. The idea here is that part-time faculty tend to spend less time on campus, so they may not be as available to students as full-timers.
The full-time faculty percentage at Texas Tech University is 82%. This is higher than the national average of 47%.
The freshmen retention rate of 86% tells us that most first-year, full-time students like Texas Tech University enough to come back for another year. This is a fair bit higher than the national average of 68%. That's certainly something to check off in the good column about the school.
When it comes to finishing their studies on time, those seeking a bachelor's degree from Texas Tech have a four-year graduation rate of 37%. This is comparable to the national average of 33.3%
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During the 2017-2018 academic year, there were 33,269 undergraduates at Texas Tech with 29,010 being full-time and 4,259 being part-time.
| $0-30 K | $30K-48K | $48-75 | $75-110K | $110K + |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $13,728 | $15,062 | $18,259 | $23,641 | $24,698 |
The net price is calculated by adding tuition, room, board and other costs and subtracting financial aid.Note that the net price is typically less than the published for a school. For more information on the sticker price of Texas Tech, see our tuition and fees and room and board pages.
It's not uncommon for college students to take out loans to pay for school. In fact, almost 66% of students nationwide depend at least partially on loans. At Texas Tech, approximately 42% of students took out student loans averaging $8,346 a year. That adds up to $33,384 over four years for those students.
The student loan default rate at Texas Tech is 1.0%. This is significantly lower than the national default rate of 10.1%, which is a good sign that you'll be able to pay back your student loans.
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Contact details for Texas Tech are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | Broadway And University Avenue, Lubbock, TX 79409-5005 |
| Phone: | 806-742-2011 |
| Website: | www.ttu.edu/ |
| Most Popular Majors | Bachelor’s Degrees | Average Salary of Graduates |
|---|---|---|
| Business Administration & Management | 500 | $53,528 |
| Marketing | 404 | $49,773 |
| Public Relations & Advertising | 403 | $41,023 |
| Finance & Financial Management | 367 | $58,535 |
| General Family & Consumer Sciences | 363 | $35,501 |
| Accounting | 351 | $63,059 |
| General Business/Commerce | 340 | NA |
| Physiology & Pathology Sciences | 316 | NA |
| General Psychology | 311 | $33,647 |
| Computer Information Systems | 294 | $82,521 |
Online learning is becoming popular at even the oldest colleges and universities in the United States. Not only are online classes great for returning adults with busy schedules, they are also frequented by a growing number of traditional students.
In 2022-2023, 25,557 students took at least one online class at Texas Tech University. This is a decrease from the 27,637 students who took online classes the previous year.
| Year | Took at Least One Online Class | Took All Classes Online |
|---|---|---|
| 2022-2023 | 25,557 | 4,572 |
| 2021-2022 | 27,637 | 5,243 |
| 2020-2021 | 21,751 | 4,027 |
| 2018-2019 | 19,021 | 3,513 |
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Footnotes
*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.
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