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Texas Tech University is the flagship Carnegie R1 public research university of the Texas Tech University System, located in Lubbock on the South Plains of West Texas. Generating over $230M in annual research expenditures, Texas Tech is globally renowned for the National Wind Institute, the Davis College of Agricultural Sciences & Natural Resources, and the Whitacre College of Engineering.
Comprising 13 colleges and schools, Texas Tech delivers over 150 master's and 60 doctoral degrees. Flagship research entities include the National Wind Institute (operating the VorTECH tornado simulator and atmospheric radar arrays), the Fiber and Biopolymer Research Institute, and the Institute of Genomics for Health and Agriculture.
Undergraduate admissions evaluate high school class rank and standardized test scores (assured admission for top 10% of Texas classes). Graduate and doctoral applicants require a baccalaureate degree from an accredited university (3.0+ GPA recommended), competitive GRE/GMAT scores (program-specific), statement of purpose, and three letters of recommendation.
The nation's first and preeminent doctoral program in wind science, researching tornadic vortex aerodynamics, storm shelter structural impact mechanics, and utility-scale wind farm turbulence.
Doctoral research program investigating drought-tolerant cotton genomics, Ogallala aquifer deficit irrigation management, soil carbon sequestration, and weed resistance genetics.
Graduate engineering program covering computational fluid dynamics, thermal energy storage, microelectromechanical systems (MEMS), and autonomous vehicle control algorithms.
Hands-on master's program exploring deep neural network training, cloud cyber defense architectures, computer vision, and distributed high-performance computing.
Premier Permian Basin-aligned petroleum engineering program training students in subsurface reservoir simulation, hydraulic fracturing geomechanics, carbon capture and storage (CCS), and geothermal energy.
Competitive fellowship deploying mobile Doppler radars and StickNet sensor pods into supercell thunderstorms to collect extreme boundary layer wind measurements and investigate tornado cyclogenesis.
President & Professor of Mathematics
Office of the President
Dr. Lawrence Schovanec serves as president of Texas Tech University, a mathematician specializing in biomechanical modeling and fractional calculus whose leader...
View researcher profile ↗P.W. Horn Distinguished Professor of Civil Engineering & NAE Member
Department of Civil, Environmental and Construction Engineering & NWI
Dr. Mehta is a member of the National Academy of Engineering who developed the Enhanced Fujita (EF) Tornado Damage Scale and founded the wind engineering resear...
View researcher profile ↗Professor of Atmospheric Science & Director of Wind Science
National Wind Institute
Dr. Schroeder is an expert in boundary layer meteorology and severe storm dynamics, pioneering the deployment of mobile Doppler radar arrays into landfalling hu...
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