Texas Tech
More than 28,000 students attend classes in Lubbock on the 1,839- acre Texas Tech University main campus. The university also operates a number of campuses and sites throughout the state of Texas. The Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center is a separate university with regional campuses in Amarillo, El Paso, and Odessa-Midland.
Texas Tech University was created by legislative action in 1923 and has the distinction of being the largest comprehensive higher education institution in the western two-thirds of the state of Texas. The university serves a region larger than 46 of the nation’s 50 states and is the only campus in Texas that is home to a major university, law school, and medical school.
Originally named Texas Technological College, the college opened
in 1925.Texas Tech was first accredited by the Southern Association of
Colleges and Schools in 1928 and has been accredited continuously
since that time. The university is classified as a Research
University Extensive by the Carnegie Foundation, making it one of
the top 125 universities in the nation...
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