University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas

The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center (UT Southwestern or UTSW) is one of the leading academic medical centers in the world.. It is the flagship biomedical research institution of the University of Texas System, incorporating three degree-granting institutions, four affiliated hospitals, including Parkland Memorial, the major public teaching hospital of the Dallas/Fort Worth metroplex, and world-class biomedical research laboratorie... more

The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center (UT Southwestern or UTSW) is one of the leading academic medical centers in the world.. It is the flagship biomedical research institution of the University of Texas System, incorporating three degree-granting institutions, four affiliated hospitals, including Parkland Memorial, the major public teaching hospital of the Dallas/Fort Worth metroplex, and world-class biomedical research laboratories. UT Southwestern is distinguished by the quality of its biomedical research, which consistently ranks among the best in the world. Shanghai Jiao Tong's Academic Ranking of World Universities places UTSW 6th in the world for the impact and quality of research in the Life Sciences. Thomson ScienceWatch ranks UTSW 7th for the average quality of its research (measured by citations per paper). UTSW's research faculty includes 18 members of the National Academy of Sciences, 13 members of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and four active Nobel... less