Texas Tech University, regularly alluded to as Texas Tech, Tech, or TTU, is an open examination college in Lubbock, Texas, United States. Created on February 10, 1923, and initially known as Texas Technological College, it is the main organization of the four-foundation Texas Tech University System. The college's understudy enlistment is the 6th biggest in the condition of Texas, as of the Fall 2014 semester. The college imparts its grounds to Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, making it the main grounds in Texas to house an undergrad college, graduate school, and restorative school at the same area.
The college offers degrees in more than 150 courses of study through 13 schools and hosts 60 examination focuses and establishments. Texas Tech University has granted more than 200,000 degrees since 1927, including more than 40,000 graduate and expert degrees. The Carnegie Foundation orders Texas Tech as having "high research action". Exploration extends in the zones of the study of disease transmission, beat force, network figuring, nanophotonics, climatic sciences, and wind vitality are among the most noticeable at the college. The Spanish Renaissance-themed grounds, depicted by creator James Michener as "the most lovely west of the Mississippi until you get to Stanford", has been recompensed the Grand Award for greatness in grounds-keeping, and has been noted for having an open workmanship accumulation among the ten best in the United States.
The Texas Tech Red Raiders are sanction individuals from the Big 12 Conference and contend in Division I for all varsity sports. The Red Raiders football group has shown up, which is seventeenth a large portion of any college. The Red Raiders b-ball group has shown up in the NCAA Division I Tournament. Weave Knight, the second-most dominating mentor in men's NCAA Division I b-ball history, served as the group's head mentor from 2001 to 2008. The Lady Raiders ball group won the 1993 NCAA Division I Tournament. In 1999, Texas Tech's Goin' Band from Raiderland got the Sudler Trophy, which is granted to "perceive university walking groups of specific greatness".
In spite of the fact that most of the college's understudies begin in the southwestern United States, the school has served understudies from each of the 50 states and more than 100 remote nations. Texas Tech University graduated class and previous understudies have gone ahead to conspicuous vocations in government, business, science, prescription, training, games, and amusement.
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