by our College Data Analytics TeamCollege Factual produces its Best Quality Schools rankings on a yearly basis to recognize those graduate schools that provide an excellent educational experience and are dedicated to helping their students succeed. Factors that go into these rankings include how much money students make after graduation, the number of FTE students per instructor, and how much debt students take on to attend the school.
In College Factual's 2024 ranking of the Best Master's Degree Schools in the U.S., Texas Tech University landed the #154 spot out of the 1149 schools analyzed for this list. So, the school is among the best in the nation with its Top 15% ranking. Texas Tech received this year's Best Master's Schools badge for its high ranking.
Texas Tech also ranked #8 for Best Master's Degree Schools in Texas.
Texas Tech was ranked #250 in the 2024 Best Doctorate Schools in the United States ranking out of the 676 schools that were included in the ranking.
Texas Tech also ranked #13 for Best Doctorate Degree Schools in Texas.
Athough the male-female ratio may vary depending on the degree program, 54.4% of the total graduate students at Texas Tech are women and 45.6% are men.
About 29.4% of the graduate students who attend Texas Tech are from a racial-ethnic minority group*. Texas Tech is popular with people from outside the United States, too. International students make up 18.7% of the graduate student population. The chart below shows the breakdown of graduate student demographics at the school. You can click on it for a more detailed view.
The average graduate full-time tuition and fees is shown in the table below.
| In-State | Out-of-State | |
|---|---|---|
| Tuition | $6,956 | $15,136 |
| Fees | $2,562 | $2,562 |
The average early-career salary for master's degree recipients from Texas Tech is $51,345. Unfortunately for those graduates, that figure is about 12% lower than the national average of $58,425.
After obtaining their doctorate degree from Texas Tech, graduates go on to jobs earning an average starting salary of $62,114. That's about 17% lower than the countrywide average of $75,260 for all doctorate degree holders.
Get more details about the location of Texas Tech University.
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/ |
| Facebook: | https://www.facebook.com/TexasTechYou |
| Twitter: | https://twitter.com/texastech |
During the 2020-2021 academic year, 52.3% of the graduate students at Texas Tech took at least one online course. Roughly 34.2% of all grad students took courses exclusively online.
The only degree programs listed here are those in which master’s degrees were awarded in 2020-2021.
Just like the master’s degree programs, only programs that had doctorate degrees awarded in 2020-2021 are shown here.
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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