Texas Tech University Student Population and Demographics

Texas Tech Student Population

There are 40,757 students including 32,580 undergraduate and 8,177 graduate students at Texas Tech University for the academic year 2024-2025. By attending status, there are 34,964 full-time and 5,793 part-time students with gender distribution of 19,861 male and 20,896 female students.

Texas Tech University is offering the distance learning opportunity (online degree program) and total 5,648 students have enrolled online program exclusively.

Student Gender Distribution

Texas Tech University has a total enrollment of 40,757 with a gender distribution of 48.73% male (19,861 students) and 51.27% female (20,896 students). There are 16,266 male and 16,314 female students in undergraduate school and 3,595 male and 4,582 female students are attending graduate school at Texas Tech University.

Student Population By Gender
Texas Tech University
	Total	Men	Women
Total	40,757	19,861	20,896
Undergraduate	32,580	16,266	16,314
Graduate	8,177	3,595	4,582
Full-time	34,964	17,344	17,620
Part-time	5,793	2,517	3,276

[Chart] Texas Tech University 2025 Gender Distribution of Enrollment

Enrollment by Attending Status

Texas Tech University has 34,964 full-time and 5,793 part-time students. In undergraduate school, 29,534 students are attending classes with full-time status, and 3,046 students are attending with part-time status. In graduate school, 5,430 students are full-time and 2,747 are part-time students.

Student Population By Attendance Status
Texas Tech University
	Total	Full-time	Part-time
Total	40,757	34,964	5,793
Undergraduate	32,580	29,534	3,046
Graduate	8,177	5,430	2,747
Men	19,861	17,344	2,517
Women	20,896	17,620	3,276

[Chart] Texas Tech University Enrollment by Attending Status

Distance Learning (Online Class) Enrollment

At Texas Tech University, 5,648 students have enrolled exclusively in online courses and 21,407 students have enrolled in some online courses out of total 40,757 students.

In undergraduate schools, 23,237 students take at least one online course and in graduate schools, 3,818 students are attending some online courses.

2025 Distance Learning Enrollment
Texas Tech University
	Total	Undergraduate	Graduate
Total	40,757	32,580	8,177
Online Exclusively	5,648	3,010	2,638
In Some Online Classes	21,407	20,227	1,180
Not In Online Classes	13,702	9,343	4,359

[Chart] Texas Tech University Distance Learning (Online Class) Enrollment

Race/Ethnicity Distribution

This section analyzes the student population by race/ethnicity at Texas Tech University. There are 139 American Indian/Native American, 20,368 White, 2,380 Black/African American, 1,381 Asian, 11,320 Hispanic, 31 Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander, and 1,051 students with other races.

Enrollment by Race/Ethnicity
Texas Tech University
	Total	Men	Women
Total	40,757	19,861	20,896
American Indian/Native American	139	63	76
Asian	1,381	710	671
Black/African American	2,380	1,273	1,107
Hispanic	11,320	5,142	6,178
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander	31	16	15
White	20,368	9,897	10,471
Two More	1,692	778	914
Race Un-Known	535	273	262

[Chart] Texas Tech UniversityRace/Ethnicity Distribution

Student Age Distribution

The following table and chart show the student enrollment by age distribution at Texas Tech University.

Age Distribution
Texas Tech University
	Total	Undergraduate	Graduate
Total	40,757	32,580	8,177
Under 18	344	344	0
Age 18-19	12,954	12,952	2
Age 20-21	12,334	12,026	308
Age 22-24	7,315	4,877	2,438
Age 25-29	3,391	1,189	2,202
Age 30-34	1,625	436	1,189
Age 35-39	1,023	300	723
Age 40-49	1,231	312	919
Age 50-64	509	129	380
Over 64	31	15	16
Age Un-Known	0	0	0

[Chart] Texas Tech University 2025 Age Distribution of Enrollment

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