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Test policy: Test-optional.","Middle 50% of enrolled first-years who submitted that test: SAT 1090\u20131270, ACT 22\u201328. 33% of enrolled first-years submitted an SAT score, 11% an ACT \u2014 these ranges describe students who submitted, not the whole class. Average enrolled GPA 3.64 (unweighted, 2025-26, as published by the college).","Cost: about $19,070 a year on average with aid, $27,443 a year at full price for in-state students.","Median earnings ten years after entry: $62,454 a year. Payoff, meaning ten years of that pay minus four years of cost: $548,260 ahead with aid, $514,768 ahead at full price.","Highest median earnings four years after the degree, by program: Petroleum Engineering ($139,864); Computer and Information Sciences, General ($113,062); Electrical, Electronics, and Communications Engineering ($107,110).","Economic mobility (Opportunity Insights): 5% of students came from families in the bottom fifth of income, and 34% of those reached the top fifth as adults.","Aid pledge published by the college for 2026-27: families earning under $80,000 pay no tuition (TX residents; covers tuition + fees, entering students).","High schools that publish a numbered matriculation list and name Texas Tech University: 10, 25 enrolled students between them \u2014 ranked by graduates per class year, most often Albuquerque Academy (2.2 per class year, 9 over 4 class years, Classes of 2021-2024); Fort Worth Country Day School (1.2 per class year, 5 over 4 class years, 2020-23); St. Mark's School of Texas (1.0 per class year, 3 over 3 class years, Classes of 2023-2025). Each figure is the number that school printed divided by the class years its own list covers; the totals and years are shown. These are the schools that publish such a list, not every school that sends students; full list: https://highschoolreach.com/leaderboards/feeder-schools/texas-tech-university.","Machine-readable version of this page: https://highschoolreach.com/colleges/texas-tech-university.json"],"caveats":["Admit rate, SAT/ACT bands and applicant counts are IPEDS (federal); admit rates by major are the college system's own reporting (UC Information Center; CSU Chancellor's Office).","UC admits to the campus, not the major, at most programs; a UC admit rate by major is a guide to selectivity, not a rule.","'transfer_only' majors at a CSU had no first-year row reported: freshmen enter as a pre-major and apply into the program later.","net_price_with_aid is the average for aid recipients; full_price is the cost of attendance. The federal $110K+ income bracket is never shown because it fits no family.","Earnings are federal College Scorecard medians; they travel with the students a college admits and the majors they choose as much as with the college.","Payoff = ten years of median earnings minus four years of cost, in dollars.","SAT/ACT bands describe ENROLLED first-years who submitted that test, not the admitted pool and not the whole class; at a test-optional college check admissions.submit_share before reading a band as the class profile."],"control":"Public","cost":{"by_family_income":[{"band":"$0\u201330K","net_price":12457},{"band":"$30\u201348K","net_price":13851},{"band":"$48\u201375K","net_price":17058},{"band":"$75\u2013110K","net_price":22073}],"full_price":27443,"in_state_basis":true,"mode":"range","net_price_with_aid":19070,"npc_url":"https://www.depts.ttu.edu/financialaid/netCostCalcHome.php","tuition_in_state":11852,"tuition_out_of_state":24451},"earnings":{"median_10yr_after_entry":62454,"median_6yr_after_entry":52588},"feeder_schools":{"admitted":{"admits":0,"note":"Counts are copied from each high school's own published, numbered list of college acceptances \u2014 where its graduates were ADMITTED, not where they enrolled. 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