301 Tarrow St.
College Station, TX 77840

Texas A&M University Health Science Center is located in College Station, Texas, and was established in 1997 by the Texas A&M System Board of Regents. The Texas School aims to educate researchers and health professionals, emphasizing its core values of statewide service, academic freedom, diversity and professional development.

The Texas school consists of seven academic units across the state: Baylor College of Dentistry in Dallas; College of Medicine in College Station, Temple, and Round Rock; College of nursing in College Station; Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences in Dallas, College Station, and Houston; Institute of Biosciences and Technology in Houston; Irma Lerma Rangel College of Pharmacy in Kingsville; and School of Rural Public Health in College Station.

The nursing college is the most recent addition to the Texas school. Another recent addition to Texas A&M University Health Science Center is the Irma Lerma Rangel College of Pharmacy, which opened in 2006 and offers students a doctoral degree. The pharmacy school's facility is a $14.5 million, 63,000-square foot building. Texas A&M University Health Science Center's School of Rural Public Health is the first of its kind in the nation to focus on rural population, while offering students three graduate and two doctoral degree programs fully accredited by the Council on Education for Public Health.

Quick Facts:

More than 1,300 students are enrolled at Texas A&M University Health Science Center, with enrollment increasing by more than 45 percent since 1999.

From 1999 to 2006, minority student enrollment at the Texas school increased by more than 100 percent when it rose from more than 100 students to more than 250 students.

Baylor College of Dentistry at Texas A&M University Health Science Center has an enrollment of more than 500 students and more than 8,000 graduates.

The medicine college at the Texas school uses more than 600 scientists and clinicians to instruct students during their studies.

From 2001 to 2006, research expenditures at Texas A&M University Health Science Center increased by more than 90 percent, reaching a total of more than $70 million.

Research proposals and awards at Texas A&M University Health Science Center account for more than a combined $180 million.

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