University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio

The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio

Motto	Disciplina, Praesidium, Civitatis
Type	Public academic health science center
Established	1959
Parent institution	University of Texas System
Endowment	$781 million (FY 23)[1]
President	Robert A. Hromas, MD, FACP (Acting/Interim)
Academic staff	2,400[1]
Total staff	8,500
Students	4,759
Undergraduates	3,656
Postgraduates	1,103
Location	San Antonio , Texas , United States 29°30'28.2"N 98°34'32.3"W
Campus	Urban, 250 acres (100 ha)
Website	www.uthscsa.edu

The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (UTHSCSA, pronounced "U-tesk-uh"),^[2] doing business as UT Health San Antonio, is a public academic health science center in San Antonio, Texas. It is part of the University of Texas System.

UT Health San Antonio is the largest health sciences university in South Texas. It is located in the South Texas Medical Center and serves San Antonio and all of the 50,000 square miles (130,000 km²) area of Central and South Texas. It extends to campuses in the Texas border communities of Laredo and the Lower Rio Grande Valley.

UT Health San Antonio has produced more than 42,550 graduates;^[3] more than 4,700 students a year train in an environment that involves more than 100 affiliated hospitals, clinics and health care facilities in South Texas. The university offers more than 65 degrees, the large majority of them being graduate and professional degrees, in the biomedical and health sciences fields.

UT Health San Antonio is home to the Mays Cancer Center, which is in partnership with the MD Anderson Cancer Center and is a designated a National Cancer Institute Cancer Center. The Mays Cancer Center's Institute for Drug Development (IDD) is internationally recognized for conducting one of the largest oncology Phase I clinical drug trials programs in the world. Fifteen of the cancer drugs most recently approved by the U.S. Food & Drug Administration underwent development or testing at the IDD. Other noted programs include: cellular and structural biology, urology, nephrology, transplantation biology, aging and longevity studies, cardiology and research imaging. UT Health San Antonio publishes a periodic magazine, Mission.^[4]

In August 2024, the University of Texas Board of Regents announced that the University of Texas at San Antonio and UT Health Science Center at San Antonio would be amalgamated to form a "world class university in San Antonio." The integrated universities will retain the UTSA name.^[5]