Texas Tech University is in compliance with Comprehensive Standard 3.4.2.

Texas Tech University is a comprehensive public research university that serves the state of Texas and the nation. The university is located in West Texas, a region that is characterized by low population density that encompasses an area of more than 150,000 square miles in the Southern High Plains of Texas, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Kansas. Because it serves such a dispersed population, continuing education, outreach, and service programs became a component of the university’s educational mission soon after its founding in 1923 and has remained so for over 70 years.

Texas Tech University offers education, outreach, and service programs at all levels of education, from kindergarten through the doctorate.  K-12 students may enroll in Texas Tech University Independent School District, a diploma-granting school accredited by the Texas Education Agency and administered by the Division of Outreach and Extended Studies.  Students in other school districts may also enroll in K-12 independent study courses or they may take credit by examinations.  College students may enroll in independent study credit courses through Outreach and Extended Studies.

Continuing education, outreach, and service programs maintained by individual colleges are described in their responses to this comprehensive standard.  In all cases, the academic content of these programs is determined by the respective colleges or departments. The Division of Outreach and Extended Studies also offers a wide range of traditional print-based correspondence and on-line courses for credit as well as non-credit programs and continuing education units (http://www.dce.ttu.edu).  All of these activities lie within the university’s mission to provide quality educational opportunities to users throughout the state of Texas, the nation, and the world.