University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio

The University of Texas at San Antonio Health Science Center
UT San Antonio Medical School
MottoDisciplina, Praesidium, Civitatis
Motto in English
"The cultivated mind is the guardian genius of democracy"
TypePublic academic health science center
Established1959
Parent institution
The University of Texas at San Antonio
Endowment$781 million (FY 23)
PresidentTaylor Eighmy
Faculty2,400
Total staff
8,500
Students4,759
Undergraduates3,656
Postgraduates1,103
Location
San Antonio
,
Texas
,
United States

29°30′22″N 98°34′34″W / 29.506°N 98.576°W / 29.506; -98.576
Campus
  • 250 acres (100 ha)
  • Urban
Websitewww.uthscsa.edu

The University of Texas at San Antonio Health Science Center (UT San Antonio Health Science Center) is a public academic health science center in San Antonio, Texas and is the medical education, and clinical branch of UT San Antonio consisting of the Health Science Center Campus, and the medical enterprise still known as UT Health San Antonio.

It is located in the South Texas Medical Center and serves San Antonio and all of the 50,000 square miles (130,000 km2) area of Central and South Texas. It extends to campuses in the Texas border communities of Laredo and the Lower Rio Grande Valley.

The UT San Antonio Health Science Center produces more than 42,550 graduates; more than 4,700 students a year train in an environment that involves more than 100 affiliated hospitals, clinics and health care facilities in South Texas. The university offers more than 65 degrees, the large majority of them being graduate and professional degrees, in the biomedical and health sciences fields.

The Health Science Center Campus is home to the Mays Cancer Center, which is in partnership with the MD Anderson Cancer Center and is a designated a National Cancer Institute Cancer Center. The Mays Cancer Center's Institute for Drug Development (IDD) is internationally recognized for conducting one of the largest oncology Phase I clinical drug trials programs in the world. Fifteen of the cancer drugs most recently approved by the U.S. Food & Drug Administration underwent development or testing at the IDD. Other noted programs include: cellular and structural biology, urology, nephrology, transplantation biology, aging and longevity studies, cardiology and research imaging. UT San Antonio Medical School publishes a periodic magazine, Mission.

In August 2024, the University of Texas Board of Regents announced that the University of Texas at San Antonio and UT Health Science Center at San Antonio would merge to form a "world class university in San Antonio." The integrated universities will retain the UTSA name.

On August 22, 2025 the university was soft launched into the merger as part of the new UT San Antonio branding. The merger officially took effect on September 1, 2025, effectively folding UT Health SA into the new UT San Antonio.

History

A Latin copy of Avicenna's Canon of Medicine, dated 1484, located at the P.I. Nixon Medical Historical Library
Copy of Garencières' 1672 English translation of the Propheties, located in The P.I. Nixon Medical History Library

2010 Failed merger with University of Texas at San Antonio

State Senator Leticia Van de Putte championed the creation of a special advisory group that would research the benefits of a possible merger between the Health Science Center and the University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA), which is also located on the city's northwest side. In 2010, the special advisory group, headed by Peter T. Flawn, former president of both UTSA and the University of Texas at Austin, concluded that a merger would not be in the best interest of the two institutions. Among its key arguments were that both institutions had strong leadership already on a positive trajectory, the merger would be a short-term distraction for UTHSCSA, and the benefit to UTSA's national stature would be slight.

The Health Science Center has a public–private partnership that is designed to promote research at the institution. The $300 million project, titled "The Campaign for the Future of Health", seeks to build new infrastructure with the South Texas Research Facility and the President's Excellence Fund.

Campuses

Renderings of the new Half-a-billion-dollar Multispecialty and Research Hospital. Adding more than 800 health care jobs, is projected to open in the late fall of 2024.
Main (Long) Campus Entrance

UT Austin's Pharmacy School is partially located on this campus. The school has eight campuses, spanning 250 acres (1.0 km2) in total:

Campus design

UTHSCSA campus in Laredo, Texas

The campus has a postmodern architecture, with several notable architects contributing to the design of the campus buildings, namely:

Teaching hospitals and clinics

Rankings and research

Rankings

Research

Schools

There are six schools that offer undergraduate, graduate, and professional degrees as well as certifications both initial and post professional.

Center for Oral Health Care & Research (COHR)

Centers and institutes

The Dolph Briscoe Jr. Library is the central library of the main campus.

Notable alumni

See also


References

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