What are the key benefits of the unified UT San Antonio?

Merging the complementary institutions leads to:

• Expanding academic program offerings to attract more students and building a clear pathway from undergraduate to graduate programs for students, especially in the health sciences. It will also create more joint degree programs between academic and health professions, enhancing the potential for more joint STEM programs, and growing health-business programs beyond current MBA and executive leadership programs.
• Accelerating the research enterprise particularly around the intersection of the health sciences with the fields of engineering, applied sciences and data sciences, building new collaborations with industry and government partners, including the military, and increasing the competitive edge to attract more grants and contracts to San Antonio.
• Amplifying the clinical enterprise to catalyze new collaborations between the unified institution, the new UT Health San Antonio Multispecialty and Research Hospital, and the broader county health system. UT Health San Antonio is also vital to the operation and success of the South Texas Medical Center, which serves 38 Texas counties.
• Bolstering the development of a skilled professional workforce in high-demand health and industry areas critical to the region and Texas and positioning the combined entities’ new integration to bolster the number of essential healthcare, business and technology professionals drawn to a city with a comprehensive academic and health center.
• Fostering more seamless collaboration among faculty in teaching, research, healthcare and service to facilitate maximum success in the classroom, lab and across the continuum of patient care.
• Multiplying technological advancements and commercialization in areas such as biomedical devices, healthy aging, precision therapeutics, brain health and more. Such therapeutic advances will also provide major economic development for San Antonio by driving education, employment and biopharmaceutical infrastructure.
• Producing greater data-driven healthcare to improve individualized diagnosis and treatment and enhanced application of precision medicine.
• Combining and accelerating fundraising appeal and success to present collaborative opportunities for donors, foundations and agencies.
• Positioning the university well for future growth to build upon success within the San Antonio and Texas R&D landscapes, including the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H Texas) hub and many San Antonio nonprofit research partners including Texas Biomedical Research Institute (TBRI) and Southwest Research Institute (SwRI).
• Achieving recognition as a premier global university alongside new peers nationally and globally, including the best comprehensive research universities that are composed of health sciences, engineering, data science and a full range of other disciplines. From the visual and performing arts to athletics, education, business, urban planning, behavioral sciences, medicine, and much more, this new comprehensive university plants a flag in San Antonio and Texas that will be recognized around the world.