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# Texas Tech University Acceptance Rate & Admissions

Updated October 1, 2026

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## 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.

First-year applicants and admitted students · CDS 2025-26

**Applicants**
38,566

**Admitted**
26,634

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**

SAT: reported composite 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**

ACT: reported composite 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](/analysis/what-the-graduation-rate-doesnt-count/) 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](/methodology/).

Analysis and methodology by [Daniel Rogers](/about/#founder), 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.

Figure notes link to sources and limitations. [About College Azimuth](/about/).