3601 4th St.
Lubbock, TX 79430

Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center is located in Lubbock, Texas, and was founded in 1969 by the state legislature as a multi-campus school. The Lubbock facility is the Texas School's administrative center, but Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center also has a pharmacy school in Amarillo, Texas and regional campuses throughout the state, including Amarillo, El Paso and Odessa.

The Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center strives to provide educational opportunities for health care professionals and students, while improving health care. The school of allied health sciences offers students 14 undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral programs in areas ranging from rehabilitation sciences and speech to clinical laboratory sciences. The graduate school of biomedical sciences at the Texas school offers students graduate and doctoral programs in seven areas, including pharmaceutical sciences, physiology and biotechnology.

Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center recently added to its campus with the 2007 addition of a four-year pharmacy school in Abilene, Texas. In the same year, the school of nursing established the first endowed chairs in nursing.

Quick Facts:

Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center provides for the health care needs of the 108 counties in West Texas, which is a 131,000 square mile service area with a population of 2.6 million. The region makes up more than 10 percent of the state's total population

In 2007, more than 2,600 students were enrolled at the Texas school. Females made up 66 percent of the student body, while males made up 33 percent of the student body.

Thirty-six percent of the student body at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center in 2007 categorized themselves as belonging to a minority group.

Since 2001, the school of allied health sciences at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center has led student enrollment.

Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center awarded more than $41 million in financial aid to more than 2,000 students in 2007.

In 2007, more than 3,100 full-time faculty members worked at the Texas school.

The four libraries at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center subscribe to more than 15,000 electronic journals and more than 38,000 electronic books. The materials are available at all campus sites and through a proxy server for distance students and faculty.

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