UT Southwestern Medical Center

The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center (UT Southwestern), a premier public academic health system in Dallas, Texas, traces its origins to 1943 as Southwestern Medical College and now spans a 231-acre campus with four schools—medicine, biomedical sciences, health professions, and public health—serving nearly 4 million outpatients annually through affiliations with Parkland Memorial Hospital, Children’s Medical Center Dallas, and William P. Clements Jr. University Hospital. Renowned for breakthroughs in cancer, neuroscience, cardiology, and regenerative medicine, it boasts $635 million in annual research funding, five Nobel laureates, and the Harold C. Simmons Comprehensive Cancer Center; in 2025 U.S. News & World Report rankings, it placed #1 in Dallas-Fort Worth for the ninth year, nationally top-ranked in 12 adult specialties (including #9 in neurology), and high-performing in 17 procedures.