Texas Tech University is in compliance with Comprehensive Standard 3.6.2.

The ultimate responsibility for insuring that graduate instruction adequately prepares students to contribute to a profession or field of study lies with the Graduate School and the independent colleges/schools, and their sub-units. All of the colleges/schools that offer graduate education at Texas Tech University and the Graduate School have drafted responses to this comprehensive standard and have indicated compliance. As evidence they offer accreditation by professional organizations, placement of students in responsible professional positions or in more advanced graduate programs in other universities, graduate program reviews, faculty participation in course and program development, and student participation in research, either as collaborators with a faculty member or independently.

The Graduate School response to this comprehensive standard notes that 100 students were funded to present research papers at national or regional conferences. Other colleges/schools and departments also provide financial support for students to attend professional or academic conferences to deliver research papers as available funds allow.

Facilities for graduate instruction vary, of course, depending on the requirements of individual programs. Modern laboratory and field facilities with up-to-date equipment are available to graduate students in the sciences and technical fields such as engineering and agriculture. Computers are widely distributed on campus, both in individual offices (faculty and, in some cases, teaching and research assistants) and in college and department laboratories, in the Advanced Technology Learning Center, and in the university library, and software is available at reduced rates for Texas Tech students. Elsewhere, specialized equipment (video filming laboratories in mass communications, studios in art and architecture, practice rooms and recital facilities for music, theatres for drama, etc.) is available as required to meet program needs. All these facilities are available to facilitate independent learning, although it is understood that it is the way in which the facilities are used, not that they exist, which is essential to promoting truly  independent learning.