About the Texas A&M Health Science Center
The Texas A&M System Board of Regents formally approved establishment of the A&M System’s health-related entities as Health Science Center (HSC) academic units in September 1997, and it officially began operation on Sept. 1, 1999.
Our university is a premier assembly of colleges devoted to educating health professionals and researchers of extraordinary competence and integrity. Our faculty, staff and students are united by a belief that all people, regardless of geography, economics or culture, deserve the benefits of compassionate care, superior science and exceptional health education.
The mission of the HSC is to dedicate the full measure of our resources and abilities to advancing the knowledge and technologies of our professions, and to bringing Texans the finest in health education, promotion and care. Because of our work, people’s lives are changed – across our state, around the nation and throughout the world.
The Texas A&M Health Science Center reaches across Texas through its seven components: Baylor College of Dentistry in Dallas; the College of Medicine in College Station, Temple, Round Rock and Houston; the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences; the Institute of Biosciences and Technology in Houston; and the School of Rural Public Health in College Station and McAllen; the Irma Lerma Rangel College of Pharmacy in Kingsville; and the latest addition being the College of Nursing in College Station. Southern regions of the state are also served by the Health Science Center through its Coastal Bend Health Education Center, which reaches the 19-county region surrounding Corpus Christi and Kingsville, and through the South Texas Center in McAllen. In 2007, the HSC added the College of Nursing to it's long list of components.
The HSC maintains key collaborations with several clinical and academic institutions in Texas. The College of Medicine partners with Scott & White and the Central Texas Veterans Health Care System in Temple and Waco in its clinical education programs. It also has active clinical partnerships involving the Carl R. Darnall Army Medical Center in the Temple-Fort Hood area, Driscoll Children’s Hospital and CHRISTUS Spohn Health System in Corpus Christi, and the Brazos Family Medical Residency in Bryan-College Station.
Baylor College of Dentistry has resident training affiliations with Mesquite Community Hospital in Mesquite and Baylor University Medical Center, Community Dental Care Clinics, Children’s Medical Center of Dallas, Martin Luther King Jr. Family Clinic, Parkland Health and Hospital System, Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children and the Veterans Affairs of North Texas Health Care System, all in Dallas.
The Texas Medical Center in Houston has been a strong partner with the Institute of Biosciences and Technology. The HSC also has partnerships with six other Texas A&M University System institutions in conjunction with those schools’ nursing programs and numerous affiliations with other clinical and educational facilities in all of its academic units’ homes cities and towns.
The HSC received full accreditation in December 2002 from the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools to award baccalaureate, master’s, doctoral and professional degrees.
