Responsibility, integrity, trust: The symbolism of the White Coat Ceremony

October 6, 2025

Across five of the six health professional schools — the Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long School of Medicine, School of Dentistry, School of Nursing, the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences and the School of Health Professions — students stepped onto the stage, slipped on crisp white coats and pledged to uphold the highest standards of care, integrity and service.



Naloxone Texas launches overdose prevention initiative on college campuses

September 16, 2025

Free naloxone and training offered to Texas colleges, community colleges and trade schools this fall Naloxone Texas, a program of the Be Well Institute on Substance Use and Related Disorders at the University of Texas at San Antonio Health Science Center, is launching a new initiative this fall aimed at colleges and universities across Texas to distribute free naloxone […]



Staying power

September 11, 2025

With most UT San Antonio Health Science Center graduates choosing to remain in Texas, the university helps close critical workforce gaps in medicine, nursing, dentistry and allied health, ensuring high-quality care for communities across the state.

UT San Antonio banner outside of the Academic Learning and Teaching Center building.

UTSA and UT Health San Antonio complete merger to become The University of Texas at San Antonio

September 1, 2025

UTSA and The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (UT Health San Antonio) today merged to form The University of Texas at San Antonio (UT San Antonio), a premier global university that is deeply committed to making lives better for the communities it serves. As a merged institution, UT San Antonio now ranks as the third-largest public research university in Texas according to annual research expenditures, behind only Texas A&M University and the University of Texas at Austin.