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Two grain silos and a hundred-acre dairy farm have been miraculously transformed over the past six decades to a Health Science Center of international renown. In 1959 Gov. Price Daniel signed House Bill 9, creating the South Texas Medical School. Six years later, the Joe J. Nix Dairy Farm, a wide expanse of grazing land, cattle pens, milking barns and silos to store cattle feed, was conveyed to the State of Texas to build a School of Medicine. On July 12, 1968, ÍøºìÎçÒ¹¸£Àû of Texas Medical School at San Antonio (which was renamed in 1967) and Bexar County Teaching Hospital (now University Health) were dedicated. Other schools were added in succeeding years and, in 1972, the institution's name officially became ÍøºìÎçÒ¹¸£Àû of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio.

Today, ÍøºìÎçÒ¹¸£Àû of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio is a chief catalyst of San Antonio's $44.1 billion health care and biosciences economic sector.  Each year, the university graduates approximately 200 physicians, 400 nurses, 100 dentists, 580 professionals in other health fields and 140 scientists. Additionally, the health science center provides a vast amount of continuing medical and dental education, affords 2.5 million patient visits each year, and provides approximately $666.2 million (FY 24) annually in uncompensated health care services.

ÍøºìÎçÒ¹¸£Àû of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio is one of the country’s leading health science universities and the largest academic research institution in South Texas. The annual expense budget for FY 25 is $1.67 billion. The university’s schools of medicine, nursing, dentistry, health professions, graduate biomedical sciences and public health have produced 45,000 graduates. 

In 2021, ÍøºìÎçÒ¹¸£Àû of Texas Board of Regents voted to authorize UT Health San Antonio and UTSA to develop a new school focused on public health policy.   ÍøºìÎçÒ¹¸£Àû of Texas School of Public Health San Antonio’s inaugural cohort began classes in fall 2024.

Pending accreditation by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges (SACSCOC), ÍøºìÎçÒ¹¸£Àû of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio will merge with ÍøºìÎçÒ¹¸£Àû of Texas at San Antonio Sept. 1, 2025. The overarching institution will be called ÍøºìÎçÒ¹¸£Àû of Texas at San Antonio, or UT San Antonio, and will be composed of all academic, research and health enterprises.

The purpose of UT Health San Antonio is to provide the best in health careers education, biomedical research, patient care and community service to San Antonio and the South Texas/Border Region. Through undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate programs, the faculty is committed to educating health professionals who will provide excellent patient care and research that can be applied to treat and prevent disease.

• Established 1959, doors opened 1968
• Acting President: Taylor Eighmy, PhD
• Fall 2024 enrollment: 3,791, plus 1,132 medical residents and post-graduate trainees
• Total graduates: 45,000
• Total faculty: 2,463
• Total workforce: 9,423
• FY 25 annual expense budget: $1.67 billion
• UT Health San Antonio is the largest academic research institution in South Texas and is ranked in the top 2.5% of all organizations worldwide that receive National Institutes of Health funding.
• Among the top-ranked institutions in Texas for aging research funding from the National Institute on Aging.
• Endowments: approximately $835 million (FY 24)
• Annual sponsored program awards and research activity: $436.2 million (FY 24)
• A chief catalyst for the $44.1 billion biosciences and health care sector of the San Antonio economy.
• Eight National Academy of Medicine members
• Supports 2.5 million patient visits each year through 1,600 providers in 130 medical specialties and subspecialties, at dozens of locations throughout San Antonio, the Hill Country and South Texas.
• The UT Health San Antonio Multispecialty and Research Hospital opened in 2024 and offers advanced cancer care and specialized surgeries, among other areas of patient care.