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Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center El Paso is a public college or university in El Paso, El Paso County. It is one of 5 degree-granting colleges and universities TexasRoam maps in El Paso County.
The site sits at 31.7719, -106.4312 near El Paso. The nearest cataloged historic site is Henry C. Trost (historical marker), about 0.5 miles away. Others within a short drive include Evergreen Cemetery, San Lorenzo, and Victoriano Huerta.
Texas Tech's El Paso campus opened in 1969 as the Regional Academic Health Center of the Lubbock-based Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center and in 1973 became affiliated with R.E. Thomason Hospital, where for decades only third- and fourth-year medical students and residents trained. As the border region struggled with a severe shortage of physicians, Texas Tech leaders in 1999 proposed building a full four-year medical school in El Paso. Local philanthropists J.O. and Marlene Stewart donated land in 2001, the Legislature approved bond funding, and the first new building, Medical Sciences Building I, was dedicated in January 2006. In 2007 Western Refining chief executive Paul L. Foster gave $50 million, the largest gift in Texas Tech System history at the time, and the school earned full accreditation in 2008. The Paul L. Foster School of Medicine enrolled its first class in 2009, and the Gayle Greve Hunt School of Nursing followed as a free-standing school in 2011. On May 20, 2013, Governor Rick Perry signed legislation making TTUHSC El Paso an independent university within the Texas Tech University System. Its Woody L. Hunt School of Dental Medicine welcomed its first students in 2021, and the institution now focuses on training health professionals for the U.S.–Mexico border region.
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