History
Though plans for opening the college inside West Texas got been in the legislative assembly for the bit of period, it got yearn been thought that any such institution should become a branch of Texas A&M. Nevertheless, around 1923 a decision wwhen mass produced to produce the recently college formulas completely thus as to service the unique needs of the region.

In 10 February of that year, Governor Pat Neff signed the legislation creating Texas Technological College & the places committee began shopping for a location. Inside August, a number one ballot resulted in the choice of Lubbock & constructiin began on what is currently considered Old Campus. Texas Technological College opened for classes around 1925 with an enrollment of 914 students.

In the 1960s it was decided that the sentence "technological college" was deficient to define a scope of a institution, getting expanded the course of study to far to a higher degree good technical indicator cases. Many title changes were proposed, sustaining Texas State University apparently getting a virtually all trend lines from either students & faculty. Still, a board of directors favorite a title Texas Tech University, even due to a want to preserve the "Double T" emblem. a title vary was such a large issue that students held rallies & marched against the title Texas Tech University. the single student declared inside a letter to the University Daily "Tech to me is a coined word and does not dignify this fine institution." Despite rallies & student-led ballot initiatives (of these student class action, desperate at a board's refusal to listen to the student person, proposed "The University of Moscow at Lubbock"), in 1969 the board voted unanimously in favour of the vary to Texas Tech University.

Academics
Texas Tech University offers 117 Bachelor's, 104 Master's & 59 Doctorial degree software. These are divided into a College of Agricultural Sciences & Natural Resources, the College of Architecture, the College of Arts & Sciences, the College of Education, the College of Engineering, the College of Human Sciences, the College of Mass Communications, the College of Visual & Performing Arts, the Rawls College of Business Administration, and the School of Law.

Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, offers schools of Allied Health, Medicine, Nursing, and Materia medica. A HSC hwhen campuses located inside Lubbock, too as in Abilene, Amarillo, El Paso, and Odessa. Aside from either its teaching duties, it will bring medical services to above the hundred counties, the geographic vicinity big than virtually all states. Another school of medicine inside El Paso is scheduled to open around 2007.

Texas Tech maintains a total of libraries, two general-all-purpose & specific (like a Architecture & Law libraries), a virtually all leading light of which are then a Southwest Favorite Collections & a Vietnam Archive, one of the big & virtually all comprehensive collections of trading tools on the Vietnam War in the world.

A university likewise maintains a KTXT-FM 88.1 student radio station also when a Public Broadcasting Service stations KOHM 89.1 FM (radio) and KTXT-TV (television).

A close 1900 acre Lubbock campus, valued at across One billion dollars is personal to Texas Tech's independent academic university, school of law & school of medicine is one of a big campuses in the united states.

Athletics

and competes in Section I personally-The for athletics altogether "major" sports. Men's teams come a Red Raiders, women's teams come a Lady Raiders.

Of the major sports, Texas Tech has got its greatest profits inside two men's & women's basketball & football. Inside 1993, a women's team won the national championship led by Sheryl Swoopes; the men's team is coached per legendary (& controversial) Bob Knight and went to the "Sweet 16" in 2005 along by owning Women's team. Texas Tech experienced the successful season of 2005 within football as well in which Tech defeated Quaternary stratified University of California in Holiday Bowl. Texas Tech is a just program around Large XII to become bowl eligible each year since the formation of the conference.

Additionally to the "major" collegial sports, a university offers more sports like rugby, lacrosse, and soccer through campus intramural sports organizations.

A Masked Rider is the oldest of Texas Tech's mascots however within being now. Originally known as a "Ghost Rider," it was an unofficial mascot starting about 1936 when an unknown student (or students) would circle a field in horseback home football games, riding into a sports stadium & away. A Masked Rider became a official mascot by owning 1954's Gator Bowl and has led a team onto the field at about each football since. A Masked Rider was a united states's 1st horse riden mascot utilized around football. the Florida State Seminoles & a USC Trojans come a virtually all notable schools that utilise such a mascot now. Tech's supplementary todays mascot, Raider Red, is more recent. About a period of the 1971 football season, the Southwest Conference created a rule that forbade a delivery of survive creature mascots to away games unless a hikers school permitted it. Since a Masked Rider's horse would fall into this rule an surrogate mascot was created. Jim Gaspard, the member of the Saddle Tramps student spirit organizatiin, created the original project for the Raider Red costume, basing it on the character created by Lubbock cartoonist & previous city manager Dirk West. Though a Masked Rider's identity is general knowledge, it has universally been tradition that Raider Red's student vary ego is saved secret until a prevent of his tenure. A student serving when Raider Red occurs as member of Saddle Tramps.

Student publications and media
KTXT-FM The Daily Toreador [http://www.dailytoreador.com] (TTU Newspaper, Formerly: The University Daily, renamed within 2005) [http://www.perversityweekly.net/ The Perversity Weekly] (TTU Irony Newspaper) [http://www.yearbookupdates.com/ttu/ La Ventana (TTU Yearbook)] [http://www.orgs.ttu.edu/studentpublications/studentpub.htm Student Media Site]

Notable faculty

Rodolfo Arredondo Jr., member of the Advisory Committee to the White Home Conference in Aging Wendell Aycock M.M. Ayoub, a pioneer in the field of ergonomics Donna Bacchi, director of the Center for Tobacco Staying healthy & Control, president of the Texas Our contries Heart Association. B.B. Bell Thomas Butler Sankar Chatterjee, the easily-known paleontologist Pernendu Dasgupta Michael Dini Timothy Floyd, defender of Gulf War veteran Louis Jones, Jr. Ann Hawkins William Curry Holden Shelby Hunt Stephen Graham Jones, Blackfeet author Kenneth Ketner Bobby Knight, Hall of Fame Head Men's Basketball Coach Mike Leach, Head Football Coach Walter McDonald, poet & previous Texas Poet Laureate Kishor C. Mehta, Tech's number one member of the National Academy of Engineering E. Roland Menzel, director of the Center for Forensic Studies Glen Provost, member of the Advisory Committee to the White Home Conference in Aging Gabor B. Racz, MD, FIPP, Pioneer in the coarse of action of Chronic Anguish. Marsha Sharp, Head Women's Basketball Coach Jemmy Smith, Director of the Murdough Center for Engineering Professionalism Mary Jeanne van Appledorn, composer

Notable alumni and ex-students
Kenneth L. Anderson, chief of the Historic American Buildings Survey Doug Ault, Major League Baseball player G.W. Bailey, actor Bob Bullock, former Lieutenant Governor of Texas Waggoner Carr, previous Texas Attorney General who began his own investigation of the Kennedy Assassination R.D. Cash, President Questar Lauro Cavazos, former Texas Tech president and U.S. Secretary of Education under Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush Richard Clapp, Major League Baseball player Major General Robert Clark, Commander, 5th Army Barry Corbin, actor Tom Craddick, Texas Speaker of the House John Denver, singer George Eads, actor Earnest Gloya, previous Dean of Engineering, University of Texas Pat Green, country music singer Grandmaster Ratte', hacker Henry Gray, Dean, Dedman College, SMU Scott Grundy, president, Department of Clinical Nutrition, University of Texas School of Medicine Jerry Hall, journalist & political consultant Kent Hance, U.S. Congressman Bernard A. Harris, Jr., astronaut John Hinckley, Jr., attempted assassin of President Ronald Reagan James Hindeman, President, Angelo State University E.J. Holub, American Football League All-Star Jack Huddle, musician Walter Huffman, Dean, Texas Tech School of Law & previous U.S. Judge Advocate General Rick Husband, astronaut and commander of STS-107 (Columbia), killed in the Columbia disaster Dr. O. Wayne Isom, David Letterman's heart surgeon & chairperson of the Department of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery, Cornell University Phil Johnson, Texas Supreme Court Justice Rocky Johnson, CEO, GTE Pete Laney, Former Texas Speaker of the House Billy Mack Jones, President, Southwest Texas State University & Memphis State University Paul Lockhart, astronaut Robert Montemayor, Pulitzer Prize winner Bam Morris, Former NFL running back Randy Neugebauer, U.S. Congressman George H. O'Brien Jr., Congressional Medal of Honor recipient Robert Palmer, CEO, Digital Equipment William Pearce, previous President, Texas Wesleyan College Jerry S. Rawls, President & CEO, Finistar Corporation William Sanger, Previous CEO GEICO David Schmidley, President, Oklahoma State University Preston Smith, former Governor of the State of Texas Charles Stenholm, U.S. Congressman Sheryl Swoopes, WNBA player Karen P.Tandy, U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration Zach Thomas, NFL player Mac Thornberry, U.S. Congressman Dan Thornton, previous Governor of Colorado Allen Tomlison Jr., President, Diamond Shamrock J.Rex Vardeman, Founder, Harris Satellite Communications Joseph M. Watt, Chief Justice, Oklahoma Supreme Court Dirk West, cartoonist and journalist Edward Whitacre, Jr., Chairman and CEO of SBC

Notable organizations

A Goin' Band from Raiderland, Texas Tech's marching band Sabre Flight Drill Team Tau Beta Sigma National Honorary Band Sorority, founded at Texas Tech A Vietnam Project Saddle Tramps spirit organization