Texas Tech University is a public research university in Lubbock, Texas, United States. Established on February 10, 1923, it is the main institution of the four-institution Texas Tech University System. As of Fall 2020, there were 40,322 students enrolled at Texas Tech. The university offers degrees in more than 150 courses of study through 13 colleges and hosts 60 research centers and institutes.
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Texas Tech University is a public research university in Lubbock, Texas, United States. Established on February 10, 1923, it is the main institution of the four-institution Texas Tech University System. As of Fall 2020, there were 40,322 students enrolled at Texas Tech. The university offers degrees in more than 150 courses of study through 13 colleges and hosts 60 research centers and institutes. The Texas Tech Red Raiders are charter members of the Big 12 Conference and compete in Division I for all varsity sports. The Red Raiders football team has made 36 bowl appearances, which is 17th most of any university. The Lady Raiders basketball team won the 1993 NCAA Division I Tournament. Although the majority of the university’s students are from the southwestern United States, the school has served students from all 50 states and more than 100 countries. The Spanish Renaissance-themed campus has been described by author James Michener as \”the most beautiful west of the Mississippi until you get to Stanford\”, has been awarded the Grand Award for excellence in grounds-keeping, and has been noted for possessing a public art collection among the ten best in the U.S. It was originally composed of four schools—Agriculture, Engineering, Liberal Arts and Liberal Arts, and Home Economics, and was originally known as Texas Technological College. It has awarded over 200,000 degrees since 1927, including over 40,000 graduate and professional degrees. It is classified among \”R1: Doctoral Universities – Very high research activity.
The university’s Goin’ Band from Raiderland received the Sudler Trophy in 1999 torecognize collegiate marching bands of particular excellence\”. In 1999, Texas Tech’s Goin’ Band received the Sudler Trophy for outstanding marching bands. The school is a designated Hispanic-serving institution and has over 25% of its undergraduate student population identifying as Hispanic. The call to open a college in West Texas began shortly after settlers arrived in the area in the 1880s. In 1917, the Texas legislature passed a bill creating a branch of Texas A&M to be in Abilene. However, the bill was repealed two years later during the next session after it was discovered Governor James E. Ferguson had falsely reported the site committee’s choice of location. In 1923, the legislature decided, rather than a branch campus, a new university would better serve the region’s needs under legislation co-authored by State Senator William H. Bledsoe. The first Texas Tech business manager, Richard Chitwood, served only fifteen months; he died in November 1926. During the early years of the 1930s Texas Tech grew slowly with an expansion program, which included a new dorm program, a golf course, a swimming pool, a library, the first library, a football stadium, and landscaping. A proposed 80,000-seat football stadium was shelved for a new football stadium. The proposed stadium won the approval of theUSD 80.
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