General Education at Texas Tech University

If you plan to study general education, take a look at what Texas Tech University has to offer and decide if the program is a good match for you. Get started with the following essential facts.

Texas Tech is located in Lubbock, Texas and has a total student population of 40,322. In the 2020-2021 academic year, 305 students received a bachelor's degree in education from Texas Tech.

Want to know more about the career opportunities in this field? Check out the Careers in General Education section at the bottom of this page.

Texas Tech General Education Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Education

Texas Tech General Education Rankings

Each year, College Factual ranks education programs across the country. The following shows how Texas Tech performed in these rankings.

Note: Although rankings can help you see some information about a school, it's not a good idea to depend on them alone. Be sure to check out other things about the school before making your decision to attend.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The education major at Texas Tech is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for General Education. This could be for a number of reasons, such as not having enough data on the major or school to make an accurate assessment of its quality.

Ranking Type	Rank
Most Popular General Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools	3
Best General Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools	48
Best Value General Education Schools	204

Education Student Demographics at Texas Tech

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the education majors at Texas Tech University.

Texas Tech General Education Bachelor’s Program

Of the 305 students who graduated with a bachelor’s in education from Texas Tech in 2021, 7% were men and 93% were women.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 15% more racial-ethnic minorities in its education bachelor's program than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Texas Tech University with a bachelor's in education.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	3
Black or African American	12
Hispanic or Latino	133
White	151
International Students	1
Other Races/Ethnicities	5

Texas Tech also has a doctoral program available in education. In 2021, 0 student graduated with a doctor's degree in this field.

Concentrations Within General Education

If you plan to be a education major, you may want to focus your studies on one of the following concentrations. The completion numbers here include all graduates who receive any type of degree in this field from Texas Tech University. Some of these focus areas may not be available for your degree level.

Concentration	Annual Degrees Awarded
General Education	305

Related Majors

• Multilingual Education
• Educational Assessment
• Teaching Assistants
• Instructional Media Design
• Student Counseling

Careers That Education Grads May Go Into

A degree in education can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for TX, the home state for Texas Tech University.

Occupation	Jobs in TX	Average Salary in TX
Education Professors	4,620	$65,520

References

*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.

• College Factual
• National Center for Education Statistics
• O*NET Online
• Image Credit: By Johan Hendrikse under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.