University of Texas Health Science Center

The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, known as UTHealth Houston, is a public academic health center in the Texas Medical Center in Houston, Texas. It was established in 1972 in the University of Texas System to bring medical and health-professional schools together as a specialist health-science university rather than a comprehensive campus.

The institution includes McGovern Medical School, the Cizik School of Nursing, the School of Dentistry, the School of Public Health, the McWilliams School of Biomedical Informatics, and the MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, run jointly with MD Anderson. Training concentrates on medicine, dentistry, nursing, public health, biomedical sciences, and health informatics, using hospitals and institutes of the Texas Medical Center.

The student body is about 5,000 to 6,000, almost entirely graduate and professional, with students from across the United States and many other countries. Faculty are clinicians and researchers based in the Medical Center. Graduates move into academic medicine, hospital systems, dentistry, nursing leadership, and public-health practice.

Degrees include the MD, DDS, nursing master's and doctoral degrees, MPH and DrPH, PhD in biomedical sciences, and master's and doctoral degrees in biomedical informatics. Professional and graduate calendars run in parallel. PhD students are typically supported by stipends and grants. Daily life is the Medical Center's hospital campuses, shuttles, and housing in surrounding Houston neighborhoods.

In the Grad School Navigator directory, University of Texas Health Science Center lists 13 graduate programs in biology and public health: 4 master's programs and 9 doctoral programs.