Texas Tech University Student Population

How many students at Texas Tech? For the academic year 2024-2025, a total of 40,757 students have enrolled in Texas Tech University with 32,580 undergraduate and 8,177 graduate students.

By gender, 19,861 male and 20,896 female students are attending the school.

It has relatively many students compared to similar colleges (34,856 students on average - public Research University (very high research activity)).

5,648 students are enrolled exclusively, and 21,407 students are enrolled in some online courses.

You can check the student demographics by gender ratio, race/ethnicity, age distribution, and online enrollment.

Student Population by Gender

Texas Tech University has a total of 40,757 enrolled students for the academic year 2024-2025. 32,580 students have enrolled in undergraduate programs and 8,177 students joined graduate programs.

By gender, 19,861 male and 20,896 female students (the male-female ratio is 49:51) are attending the school.

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Student Distribution by Race/Ethnicity

By race/ethnicity, 20,368 White, 2,380 Black, and 1,381 Asian students out of a total of 40,757 are attending at Texas Tech University. Comprehensive enrollment statistic data by race/ethnicity is shown in the chart below (academic year 2024-2025 data).

Texas Tech University is moderately diverse with a diversity index of 66.7% measured by Census Bureau Diversity Index. The institution demonstrates strong racial and ethnic diversity among its student body.

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• Undergraduate
• Graduate

Student Age Distribution

By age, Texas Tech has 344 students under 18 years old and 31 students over 65 years old. There are 32,947 students under 25 years old, and 7,810 students over 25 years old out of 40,757 total students.

In undergraduate programs, 344 students are younger than 18 and 15 students are older than 65. Texas Tech has 30,199 undergraduate students aged under 25 and 2,381 students aged 25 and over.

It has 2,748 graduate students aged under 25 and 5,429 students aged 25 and over.

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• Undergraduate
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Online Student Enrollment

Distance learning, also called online education, is very attractive to students, especially those who want to continue education and work in the field. At Texas Tech University, 5,648 students are enrolled exclusively in online courses and 21,407 students are enrolled in some online courses.

4,845 students who live in Texas or the jurisdiction in which the school is located are enrolled exclusively in online courses and 803 students live in another State or outside of the United States.

• Online Population
• By Locality

Transfer-in Students (Undergraduate)

Among 32,580 enrolled in undergraduate programs, 2,544 students have transferred-in from other institutions. The percentage of transfer-in students is 7.81%.2,259 students have transferred in as full-time status and 285 students transferred in as part-time status.