The University has an enrollment of more than 25,000 students and is located in Lubbock, a city with a population of approximately 200,000. The urban campus has almost 2,000 contiguous acres. The university also operates a number of facilities, including a research center near Amarillo, an instructional center at Texas Hill Country Junction campus, agricultural field laboratories at New Deal, satellite medical facilities at Amarillo, El Paso, and Midland-Odessa, an agricultural facility and research farm spanning 16,000 acres, in Texas Panhandle. Certain special facilities and organizations are associated with the University to support and promote its instructional and research efforts. Included among these are the Seismological Observatory, the Museum, Southwest Collection, the Institute of Environmental and Human Health, Wind Engineering Research Center, the Computer Center, the Center for Applied Research in Industrial Automation and Robotics, the Center for Energy Research, the Environmental Sciences Laboratory, the Institute for Design and Advanced Technology, the Institute for Ergonomics Research, the Murdough Center for Engineering Professionalism, the Textile Research Center, the Water Resources Center, and the International Center for Arid and Semi-Arid Land Studies to mention a few.
All departments offer four year programs leading to the Bachelor of Science degree.
The graduate programs which lead to Master of Science and Doctor of Philosophy degrees are in Civil, Chemical, Computer Science, Electrical, Industrial, Mechanical, Petroleum, and Interdisciplinary Engineering areas. Research plays a prominent role in the functions and goals of the College of Engineering.