About the HSC
Our university is a premier assembly of colleges devoted to educating health professionals and researchers of extraordinary competence and integrity. Our faculty, staff and students are united by a belief that all people, regardless of geography, economics or culture, deserve the benefits of compassionate care, superior science and exceptional health education.
HSC affiliates:
- Mesquite Community Hospital
- Baylor University Medical Center
- Community Dental Care Clinics
- Children’s Medical Center of Dallas
- Martin Luther King Jr. Family Clinic
- Parkland Health and Hospital System
- Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children
- Veterans Affairs of North Texas Health Care System
- College of Medicine
- Scott & White
- Central Texas Veterans Health Care System
- Carl R. Darnall Army Medical Center
- Driscoll Children’s Hospital
- CHRISTUS Spohn Health System
- Brazos Family Medical Residency
- Texas Medical Center
The Texas A&M Health Science Center has six academic units:
- Baylor College of Dentistry
- College of Medicine
- College of Nursing
- Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
- School of Rural Public Health
- Irma Lerma Rangel College of Pharmacy in Kingsville
Additional components within TAMHSC include:
In addition, TAMHSC also has partnerships with six other Texas A&M University System institutions in conjunction with those schools’ nursing programs and numerous affiliations with other clinical and educational facilities in all of its academic units’ homes cities and towns.
The Texas A&M System Board of Regents formally approved establishment of the A&M System’s health-related entities as Health Science Center academic units in September 1997, and it officially began operation on Sept. 1, 1999.
The HSC received full accreditation in December 2002 from the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools to award baccalaureate, master’s, doctoral and professional degrees.
