University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center–Dallas

The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center is a public academic medical center in Dallas, Texas, in the University of Texas System. It opened in 1943 as Southwestern Medical College and developed into a three-school health-science campus. The main site is the Southwestern Medical District, next to Parkland Memorial Hospital and William P. Clements Jr. University Hospital.

The campus comprises the medical school, the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, and the School of Health Professions. Research groups work in biochemistry, genetics, immunology, neuroscience, and related fields. Students train in campus laboratories and in affiliated hospitals, including Parkland, Children's Medical Center Dallas, and the university hospitals.

Enrollment is a few thousand, nearly all in MD, PhD, MD/PhD, and allied-health programs, with international researchers a regular presence in the laboratories. Six faculty members have received Nobel Prizes in Physiology or Medicine, among them Michael Brown, Joseph Goldstein, Johann Deisenhofer, Bruce Beutler, and Thomas Sudhof.

Doctoral education uses a first-year core curriculum and laboratory rotations typical of U.S. biomedical graduate schools; the MD is a four-year professional degree. Most PhD students receive stipends and training-grant support. The setting is a medical district of research towers and hospitals, not a residential undergraduate campus, with housing in nearby Dallas neighborhoods.

In the Grad School Navigator directory, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center–Dallas lists 13 graduate programs across 4 subjects, all of them doctoral programs, with the widest choice in biology, chemistry and pharmacy.