Texas Tech University Placements: Job Opportunities & Placement rate, Packages

Texas Tech University’s average salary amount stood at $55,920. The graduates who ventured into Mining & Petroleum and Utilities, with the average salary being $96,000. The undergraduate data included in this article represent continued education or job obtained within 180 days post-graduation. According to the Centre for World University Rankings, 2022, the university has been ranked 423 among the top universities in the world. It has also been featured as the 464^th rank top university globally as per the U.S News & World Report Global Rankings, 2022. Texas Tech University has also been adjudged the second best online college in Texas, in 2021.

This article majorly contains the data and analysis of the University’s Rawls College of Business and its management courses.

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Texas Tech Placement Highlights 2021

Texas Tech University Class Profile 2021

 Texas State University has 13 colleges and schools, providing distinct degree levels and popular courses. The university offers over 150 undergraduate degree courses, 100 graduate degree courses, and 50 doctoral degree courses. Texas Tech has a total of 40,666 students, from different regions and backgrounds, enrolled for the fall 2021 session.

Read below to get some more idea about the class profile of fall 2021 batch, which includes gender division, student ethnicity, and more.

• A total of 33,256 students were pursuing an undergraduate course and 7,410 were studying to obtain a graduate and a law degree.
• The total number of full-time teaching faculty is 1,600.
• The total number of part-time teaching faculty is 188.
• The total number of male students pursuing a UG course is 16,949 and 3,032 male students were studying to obtain a graduate degree.
• The total number of female students pursuing a UG course is 16,281 and 3,843 male students were studying to obtain a graduate degree.
• The first-generation students were 9,369 in number and 23,887 students were non-first generation students.
• The total number of full-time students was 33,557 and the part-time students were 7,109 in number.
• Student Race: American India/Alaskan Native (126), Asian (1,290), Black or African American (2,378), Hispanic (11,061), Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander (27), Non-Resident International (2,173), Two or more races (1,537), White (21,664).

Texas Tech University Employment Profile 2021

The salary status of the Texas Tech University graduates in 2021 witnessed a slight improvement from the last year (2020), when the average amount recorded was $55,201. In 2021, the salary amount stood at $55,920. The data that this section contains is ‘one-year after graduation’ data.

Going by the industry, the highest average salary was obtained by the graduates who ventured into Mining & Petroleum and Utilities, with the average salary being $96,000. This was followed by Construction and Transportation & Warehousing, with the average amount standing at $73,000 and $59,000 respectively. The industry which yielded the least amount of average salary for the graduates was Retail Trade and Accommodation & Food Services, with employees getting an average amount of $30,000.

Texas Tech University Placement by Industry or Sector Wise Analysis 

The table below features the average salary amount of Texas Tech graduates on the basis of industry as well as subject.

Rawls College of Business Employment Profile 2021

This section covers the employment profile of the graduates from the University’s Rawls College of Business. As per the available data, 79.7% of the students had a full-time job, whereas, in the year 2020, 76.6% of the graduates were employed full-time. Only 0.2% of the students, in 2021, had a part-time job and 0.6% opted for the military. 12.2% of the graduates planned to pursue further education after obtaining an undergraduate degree and 7% were still looking out for a job.

Employment by Degree (Graduate level)

Full-Time MBA Programs: 90 days post-graduation data represented

Specialty Masters (MS) Programs: Job obtained within 180 days post-graduation

Part-Time / Online Programs: Job obtained within 120 days post-graduation

• STEM MBA: 75%
• MS Accounting: 98%
• MS Finance: 95%
• MS Data Science: 83.3%
• MSDS (online): 92.3%
• MS MRA (online): 100%

Rawls College of Business Top Employers 2021

Rawls College of Business Placement by Subject 2021

The total employment rate in the year 2021 was 92.6%, better than in 2020 when the employment rate was 90.9%.

The subject which witnessed the highest employment rate was Global Supply Chain, with 100% of its students getting employed. This was followed by Energy Commerce and General Business, with a 95.1% employment rate and Construction Management, with 88.9% of its graduates obtaining a job. The subject with the least percentage of the employment rate was Accounting, with 75.5% of its graduates getting absorbed somewhere.

Texas Tech Campus Placement Support

Since 2003, the university’s career management centre has been empowering its students by helping them build networks, prepare for professional interviews, and get hired by brilliant companies around the world. A number of workshops, career fairs, on-campus interviews and interactive sessions are organized for the students in which they gain professional knowledge and tools which are mandatory for success in the industry.

Students can book a one-on-one appointment and attend employer info-sessions, etiquette events, and presentations and also make use of the career closet for their own benefit.

Resume Guide: From here students can obtain in-depth information regarding creating and enhancing their resumes. More than 500 professionally certified resume samples are available on Optimal Resume.

Candid Career Professional Document Videos: Here students and alumni can watch videos and learn great tips from career experts and industry professionals regarding resumes and cover letters.

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