The Texas Tech University School of Law is committed to providing an affordable education to Texas residents. In fact, it holds the No. 9 spot in preLaw and National Jurist magazines' list of law schools with the best values. Academically, the focus at Texas Tech Law is law and science, particularly agricultural law and biodefense law. The school offers three certification programs for JDs, with a law and science program subdivided in environmental law, intellectual property law or biotechnology emphases.

Texas Tech Law operates a summer entry program, in which students who have been away from an academic atmosphere for an extended period or who have low LSATs and GPAs but solid work experience can take an intensive summer course to prepare for the challenges of law school. Students can earn one of 12 master's or doctoral degrees concurrent with their JD, ranging from a JD/MD to a JD/MS in crop and soil sciences. Curricular requirements to earn a JD are standard, spreading over the first two years.

An staggering number of Texas Tech Law graduates stay in Texas; 93 percent of the class of 2005, for example, settled in-state. Most migrate away from the relatively small legal market in Lubbock to Houston or Dallas, and a few settle in neighboring states or major cities in the Northeast. Lubbock's surrounding areas are flooded with undergraduates, which means that beer is cheap, sports are big and most social activities revolve around the Texas Tech campus.