Student Counseling at Texas Tech University

If you plan to study student counseling, 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.

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

Texas Tech Student Counseling Degrees Available

• Master’s Degree in Student Counseling
• Doctorate Degree in Student Counseling

Texas Tech Student Counseling Rankings

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There were 4 students who received their doctoral degrees in student counseling, making the school the #40 most popular school in the United States for this category of students.

Student Counseling Student Demographics at Texas Tech

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

Texas Tech Student Counseling Master’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 33% of student counseling master's degrees went to men and 67% went to women. Nationwide, master's degree programs only see 17% men graduate in student counseling each year. Texas Tech does a better job at serving the male population as it supports 16% more men than average.

In the student counseling master's program at this school, racial-ethnic minorities make up 60% of degree recipients. That is 23% better than the national average.*

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	1
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	7
White	6
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	1

Related Majors

• Multilingual Education
• Educational Assessment
• Teaching Assistants
• Instructional Media Design
• Teacher Education Subject Specific

Careers That Student Counseling Grads May Go Into

A degree in student counseling 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
Educational, Guidance, School, and Vocational Counselors	25,670	$60,080

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.