The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center (UT Southwestern Medical Center)

The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center (UT Southwestern, or UTSW) is a publicly funded academic health science center based in Dallas, Texas, in the United States. With about 23,000 employees and more than 3,000 full-time faculty, it is the largest medical school in the University of Texas System and in the state of Texas. Its roots lie in the Southwestern Medical Foundation, which a group of Dallas citizens led by Edward H. Cary and Karl Hoblitzelle organised in 1939.

Nature Index (Springer Nature) ranks UT Southwestern No. 2 in its 2026 Research Leaders table for healthcare institutions, a ranking of research output. Its 2025 Share was 180.56, up 13.1% from 159.68 in 2024, based on a Count of 561.

Wikipedia reports an operating budget of more than US$4.1 billion in 2021 and research programs worth US$634.9 million in 2022. Each year it trains roughly 3,800 students, residents and postdoctoral fellows in medicine, graduate studies and the health professions, and its residency program is the largest in the United States. Its faculty and residents work in more than 80 specialties, caring for over 100,000 hospitalised patients and nearly 4 million outpatient visits a year.

Sources of this text: Wikipedia · Nature Index (Springer Nature)