Texas Tech University

Transferred from University of Texas Austin to TTU, best decision I could have made. While Austin is an amazing fun city, it is hard to concentrate on your school work, and frankly I was tired of being a number and going to a school where sports dominates much of students lives. While Tech also has a lot of sports, the focus is much more academic, sure UT has more research but they also have a larger endowment, the 1 on 1 research and academic work is much much better at Tech. I did not feel like a number at all, I felt like a valued member of my class, and my professors all knew my name.

The Rawls Business school is simply amazing, every year it is ranked higher and higher by Newsweek and Forbes and the reason is because it is an amazing business school.

Lubbock is a really nice town, especially in the fall and spring, summers are hot, and winters are cold, but the rest of the year is so gorgeous and the weather is perfect. When it does snow though it is really fun. Having grown up in Fort Worth/Dallas and living in Austin for a year, I was surprised at how much there was to do in Lubbock, amazingly everything you could hope to find is there. In the years I've been at TTU they have been expanding all across town and on campus as well.My friends at A&M and UT complain about being a number, here at Tech you are not a number, you are an individual and are treated like one.

4th Year Female -- Class 2010

Education Quality: A+, Surrounding City: B+

TTU is amazing, I cam from out of state because of the excellent undergraduate anthropology/archaeology program. It is first rate and unlike other regional schools you get 1-1 attention and there are still opportunities for research and outside work. The school is incredible, although Lubbock is isolated it has everything you would need, and in a few years time the city will be even more built up. I have no regrets about coming here, I choose Tech over UT Austin, Texas A&M, Oklahoma, and Arizona State. You get the big campus feel with athletics, student body size, resources etc, with the 1 on 1 attention of a small university, my best friend at UT is so jealous. The students are friendly, the faculty is nice, it is definitely a great place to live and learn.

4th Year Female -- Class 2009

Education Quality: A+, Surrounding City: B+

This is my 4th year at Texas Tech and I have loved everything about my experience! First off the campus beauty is unmatched, everyone will agree that it is one of the most beautiful campus's in the nation. There are a lot of misconceptions about Lubbock and Texas Tech that I've heard. People think Texas Tech is a run down campus in an old dirty hick town which is so far from the truth. Lubbock is really green most times of the year, except for winter. The campus as I mentioned earlier is spectacular, you really have to see it yourself to get a good grasp on what I'm saying. And Lubbock is an awesome town! This town has grown soooooo much just since I've been at Tech. Some fun facts about Lubbock: Lubbock is number 1 in the nation for most restaurants per capita. There are so many AWESOME and unique places to go to eat, dine, and have a good time in Lubbock. 2nd Lubbock is a pretty new city so it's growth and planning is great. All of the streets in Lubbock are set up on a perfect grid, and all of the street names are alphabetical, and all the street numbers are numerical! Plus there is loop that runs around the whole town, making it super easy to travel arond Lubbock. You look at Lubbock right now and it looks like portions of Austin/Dallas/Houston/San Antonio. We have inheirated many of the unique restaurants, and places that use to be inherit only to those cities. All of the sports stadiums and facilities are ON CAMPUS! It really makes for an awesome campus feel being able to catch a baseball game on a friday afternoon right after class. Plus all sporting events are free for students, and the atmosphere is always electic, espeically for football. Tech has the 2nd biggest campus in the nation behind the Air Force Academy. We are the only school in Texas to have an undergraduate campus, a Law School, and Medical school all lying on the same continous campus. Texas Tech is surronded by starbucks, restaurants, copying labs, book stores, lofts, and other business's making it really convient for students to travel across the street for almost anything you desire. I am a Law student here and Tech was ranked top 20 best values last year, which consists of price, class size, professor evaluation, law degrees earned, and test scores. Texas Tech in number one in the state of Texas for students passing the bar exam on the firt attempt at 91 percent. Overall I have loved my experience here at Tech and wouldn't trade my great education or amazing experiences here for anything! Tech really is a diamond in the rough and one of the best kept secrets in the country! Take a visit out to Lubbock sometime and you will fall in love with the whole experience.

4th Year Female -- Class 2010

Education Quality: A+,