46.UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SOUTHWESTERN CENTER

46.UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SOUTHWESTERN         CENTER [.... 31st in USA] (Dallas,TX,USA)                                         

The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas is the largest medical training facility in the Texas University System.

 It trains over 4,700 students and postdoctoral fellows from the medical, graduate, and health professions every year. 


The school’s students and faculty care for 92,000 hospitalized patients and 2.1 million outpatients each year.


The school receives $415.5 million from various federal agencies, including the National Institutes of Health. These funds support over 3,300 research projects.


Southwestern Medical has 13,800 employees utilizing a $2.3 billion operating budget. The faculty do not restrict their teaching to just students and fellows.

 They also teach 1,600 clinical residents and 63,000 physicians pursuing continuing education each year.

The graduate school runs 12 different degree programs covering every area of modern medicine.


The current faculty hold six Nobel Prizes. In addition, 21 are members of the National Academy of Sciences and 19 are members of the Institute of Medicine.                                      

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