Admissions & selectivity
Texas Tech University Acceptance Rate & Admissions
What is the acceptance rate at Texas Tech?
Texas Tech’s reported acceptance rate is 72.7%.
- Acceptance rate · Fall 2024
- 72.7%
Source: College Scorecard · Fall 2024 admissions. Acceptance rates can change from year to year; this figure does not predict the current or next admission cycle.
Source: Texas Tech University Common Data Set 2025-26, C1 · first-time, first-year students.
How to interpret the acceptance rate
Texas Tech University admitted 72.7% of applicants in the most recent cycle, placing it below the median of 78.1% for comparable institutions (same type and size). In its 2025-26 Common Data Set, the university reported 38,566 applicants, 26,634 admitted, and 7,579 enrolled first-year students.
What SAT and ACT scores do enrolled Texas Tech students report?
In its 2025-26 Common Data Set, Texas Tech University reported that enrolled first-year students who submitted SAT scores had a composite range from 1110 to 1260. 35% of the entering class submitted SAT scores.
For ACT score submitters, the composite range was 23 to 28, with 11% of enrolled first-year students submitting ACT scores. Among the 100% of the entering class who submitted a class rank, 25% were in the upper tenth and 54% in the upper quarter.
The reported average high-school GPA among enrolled first-year students was 3.64, based on the 99.8% who reported a GPA.
The ranges below describe enrolled students who submitted test scores at Texas Tech. Use them as academic context, then check the university’s current testing policy for your application cycle.
35% of entering students submitted SAT scores
- 25th percentile
- 1110
- Median
- 1180
- 75th percentile
- 1260
CDS 2025-26 · enrolled first-year score submitters. This range is not an admission cutoff.
11% of entering students submitted ACT scores
- 25th percentile
- 23
- Median
- 25
- 75th percentile
- 28
CDS 2025-26 · enrolled first-year score submitters. This range is not an admission cutoff.
Source: Texas Tech University Common Data Set 2025-26, C9 · Enrolled first-time, first-year score submitters.
Who enrolls at Texas Tech?
- Pell Grant recipients
- 27.8%
- Entering students outside the first-time, full-time group
- 28.1%
- First-year retention
- 85.0%
Retention source: College Scorecard; full-time first-year retention.
About these student measures
The entering-student group includes part-time entrants as well as other attendance patterns.
Texas Tech University enrolls 32,394 undergraduates. The student body includes people who started elsewhere: an estimated 28.1% arrive as transfers or part-time students, and 27.8% receive Pell Grants.
In its 2025-26 Common Data Set, the university reported 38,566 first-year applicants and 26,634 admitted, with 7,579 enrolling. For transfer students, 7,068 applied and 2,744 enrolled.
Texas Tech University keeps most of its first-year students: 85.0% return for a second year, against a peer median of 83.1% for comparable institutions. The six-year graduation rate is 68.7%, also above the peer median of 65.0%.
In its 2025-26 Common Data Set, the university reported a retention rate of 85% for the first-time, full-time fall 2024 entering class. For the first-time, full-time fall 2019 entering class, the six-year graduation rate was 69.7%, with Pell recipients completing at 63.3%.
Pell recipients in the federal cohort complete at 60.4%, 8.3 percentage points below the overall rate. Enrolled students can expect persistence and completion that run ahead of peer institutions, though the gap for Pell recipients is a factor to weigh.
Data & methodology
Sources and reporting periods: methodology.
Analysis and methodology by Daniel Rogers, founder of College Azimuth.
Explanatory text is AI-assisted drafting checked against those figures; it is not an additional data source.
Admission rates describe past applicants, not an individual’s chance of admission; confirm requirements and deadlines with the institution.
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