A new home for the future of health

In spring of 2024, the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center (TTUHSC) celebrated a ribbon cutting to mark the opening of their newly renovated Dallas campus. The Dallas location allows Dallas–Fort Worth area students access to TTUHSC’s prestigious programs without having to journey west. The university’s ties to the region have advanced health care in Texas for years, with many TTUHSC alumni currently living in the Dallas–Fort Worth Metroplex. Now, the state-of-the-art Dallas campus is a welcoming space that area students can call their own.

Home to the Jerry H. Hodge School of Pharmacy, multiple programs within the School of Nursing and the Laura W. Bush Institute for Women’s Health, the newly renovated classrooms and facilities in Dallas allow top-tier health care education for students and professionals in each of these fields.

The Jerry H. Hodge School of Pharmacy was the first TTUHSC school established in Dallas, educating students in the area since 1999. With more than 200 students in the Metroplex, learners get to pursue a wide variety of concentrations and treat a diverse group of patients in both rural and urban communities. The school proudly offers advanced research, training programs and resources, including considerable dedicated laboratory research space on the Dallas campus.

Hundreds of nursing students are living in the Dallas–Fort Worth region while completing TTUHSC programs online, at the Dallas campus and at a separate site in Mansfield. Students are enrolled in the Dallas and Mansfield-based BSN programs and online in the RN-BSN and graduate (MSN/DNP) programs. The School of Nursing also offers an accelerated BSN program, which started in 2013 and has graduated 223 students since its inception in Dallas. Cutting-edge facilities at the new Dallas campus include a simulation center, which helps students improve patient service and clinical judgment in a safe, high-tech learning environment.

The Dallas TTUHSC campus also continues to be the home base for the Laura W. Bush Institute for Women’s Health, which was established to create a new approach to women’s health care and has stood beside women and their health needs for more than 15 years. Additionally, TTUHSC officially welcomed The Cooper Institute as part of its organization in November 2024 with the unveiling of its new name—the Kenneth H. Cooper Institute at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center. The institute focuses on research and education to promote preventive medicine across all stages of life.

The university aims to better lives in Texas by elevating Dallas, influencing and enhancing health care in markets across the state.

“Our goal for our Metroplex location is to make our nationally recognized academic instruction accessible in order to help address the shortage of health care professionals,” says TTUHSC President Lori Rice-Spearman, Ph.D.

With 1,314 students from the Dallas–Fort Worth Metroplex enrolled across the TTUHSC enterprise, the renovated facilities on the Dallas campus provide a space where students in the community can conduct innovative learning and collaborate with fellow students and professionals to help shape the future of health for the Metroplex and for the state.

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