UT Regents Back Some Tuition Hikes, New Med Schools
In-state tuition for University of Texas at Austin undergraduates will hold steady for the next two years, but nonresidents and graduate students will pay more in tuition. Most students in the University of Texas System will also pay more for school in the next two years after UT System regents today approved all requests, except UT-Austin's, to raise tuition.
UT regents today also committed to developing medical schools in Austin and South Texas. The plan to build an Austin-based medical school will receive up to $30 million a year from the state’s Available University Fund, as long ...
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Trea Lindelow via Texas Tribune on Facebook
A tuition rate hike? Shocker!!!! I am excited that they are committed to bringing a full med school to Austin though.
Jose B. Gonzalez via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Medical School to South Texas!
Jemila Lea via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Texas needs more residency programs...not more medical schools. The shortage of residency programs just makes the doctors that are educated in the state take their skills somewhere else. The pace of residency programs has not kept pace with the number of medical school students throughout the country.
http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/Shortage-of-residencies-is-costing-Texas-future-1577419.php
gypsy314 ne
schools are over paid as it is and they need to give a rebate back to all for there failures.All Americans should know by now liberals democrats are nothing but a lie.
Anyone but a democrat!
Tayson DeLengocky
I am very pleased to hear that my alma mater, UT at Austin, is committed to establishing a medical school by providing $ 30 million per year and fundraising another $ 5 million per year for the next eight years. Austin community has proven its support with the amount of money to bring a medical school to Texas capital; Seton Healthcare Family has pledged to invest $250 million to build a new teaching hospital.
The South Texas leaders have expressed the concerns to the UT Board of Regents about the lack of funding for their Valley medical school and “demanded blueprint and a timeline for a Valley medical school.”
As I spent 2 years in doing my fellowship in South Texas, I experienced the severe shortage of physicians in the area and I share totally with the South Texas leaders’ concern. I am urging the South Texas leaders should seek advice from the president Scott Ransom of UNTHSC at Fort Worth on how to build a medical school, UNTMD, with a very low cost of $21.5 million over 5 year-period.
UT Regents approve 35 millions in allocations for Austin medical school and the real need of increasing medical residency slots in Texas
http://www.eyedrd.org/2012/05/ut-regents-approve-30-millions-in-allocations-for-austin-medical-school.html#more-11818