Texas Tech University

Location

Not good for Internships and Full time

Campus

With a sprawling 1893-acre main campus in Lubbock, Texas houses the main academic university, law school, and medical school. The campus boasts of Spanish architecture with a large section of the campus listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The Museum of Texas University is home to three million objects and specimens with a planetarium and research laboratory. The Northern side of the campus has a museum called National Ranching Heritage Center which is home to many historic things such as windmills, chuck-wagons, and a coal-burning locomotive.
TTU houses many libraries but two of the most substantial libraries on the Texas campus are Southwest Collections Library and the Vietnam Center and Archive (nation’s largest center exhibiting information on the Vietnam War). All in all, Texas Tech looks like a rich campus which emulates pride for their students.

Residing Options

There are various apartment-styleoptions, suite-style halls and dorms available for students at Texas Tech. Undergraduate students are supposed to live on campus until they have done 30 hours of coursework. Some of the most popular ones are Talkington, West Village, Carpenter/Wells, Murray, Gordon Halls (all boys, mostly engineering), Bledsoe (six residence halls, either all boys or all girls each), etc. One of the most preferred dorms is Murdough (all boys) and the least preferred are Coleman and Weymouth. Stangel and Chitwood are all-girls dorms. All residence halls at Texas Tech provide with study lounges, front desk help center, mailboxes, laundry room, small canteen area, small parking and bike racks. There are meal plans provided in each of the halls where the highest meal plans offer a 50% discount and the lowest offer 10% discount. On-campus housing costs about $4500 per semester.

Faculty

With 1546 full-time faculty and 194 part-time, the faculty to student ratio is 22:1. One disadvantage definitely is that there is less one on one teaching with more auditorium style classes. Some of the classes may even have 100 students but that could be the price of being at a big school. You may require a prior appointment to meet with your academic advisor. At Texas Tech, the STEM courses have a lavish reign. Kinesiology and Mechanical engineering programs are the most popular. The school has also sent a dozen astronauts to NASA. Marketing is one of the most popular courses in its Business School program.