{"id":445418,"date":"2026-09-23T19:11:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T19:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/445418\/"},"modified":"2026-09-23T19:11:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T19:11:10","slug":"texas-tech-enrollment-continues-record-growth-reaches-more-than-46000-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/445418\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Tech enrollment continues record growth, reaches more than 46,000"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; Texas Tech University\u2019s fall 2026 enrollment officially reached 46,296 as of the 20th day of classes Monday, Sept. 21, establishing another enrollment record for the university.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The official count builds on the enrollment milestone Texas Tech announced on the first day of classes, when the university reported more than 45,000 students. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Enrollment continued to increase during the opening weeks of the semester as students completed registration and other enrollment processes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The final figure represents an increase of 3,841 students from a year ago and marks the fifth consecutive year of enrollment growth at Texas Tech. Since 2024, the university\u2019s student body has grown by 13%.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Texas Tech also welcomed a record 9,532 first-time-in-college students this fall. The population has increased by almost 40% (39.88%) since 2024, reflecting continued growth in the university\u2019s incoming classes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Growth extends across the university. Undergraduate enrollment has increased by 4,916 students, or 15%, since 2024, while graduate enrollment has grown by 411 students, or 5%, during the same period.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 KCBD. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; Texas Tech University\u2019s fall 2026 enrollment officially reached 46,296 as of the 20th day&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":445419,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[153742,153741,25681,2338,168,170,169,50009,302,27,1769,512],"class_list":["post-445418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lubbock","tag-153742","tag-153741","tag-classes","tag-enrollment","tag-lubbock","tag-lubbock-headlines","tag-lubbock-news","tag-monday","tag-tech","tag-texas","tag-texas-tech","tag-university"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=445418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445418\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/445419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=445418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=445418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=445418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}