Texas Tech University
Texas Tech publishes 73% (Fall 2024). In-state applicants got in at 75%; international at 34%.
- Acceptance rate
- 73%
- College Scorecard, latest cycle
- SAT middle 50%
- 1090–1280
- Section 25th–75th, summed
- ACT middle 50%
- 23–28
- Avg. HS GPA
- 3.64
- Fall 2025 enrolled first-time first-year students (CDS 2025-26)
- Test policy
- Not published
- Regular deadline
- Not published
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Acceptance rate
What Texas Tech's 73% is made of
The published rate averages groups with very different odds. These are the splits Texas Tech reports itself.
Part of Real Acceptance Rates, our series decomposing published rates from each school's own Common Data Set.
Testing
Test scores at Texas Tech
- SAT middle 50%
- 1090–1280sum of section 25th–75th percentiles
- ACT middle 50%
- 23–28
- Average HS GPA
- 3.64Fall 2025 enrolled first-time first-year students (CDS 2025-26) · Source
At a glance
Size and cost
- Undergraduate enrollment
- 32,394
- Tuition (out-of-state)
- $24,451
- Category
- Public
- Admissions site
- www.ttu.edu
Sources
- Texas Tech GPA (Fall 2025 enrolled first-time first-year students (CDS 2025-26))
- Acceptance rate, test-score percentiles, enrollment and tuition: U.S. Department of Education College Scorecard, pulled 2026-09-14.
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