UTSA and UT Health San Antonio Merge to form UT San Antonio Now Ranking Third-Largest Public Research University in Texas

news.law September 2, 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.

UT San Antonio’s comprehensive enterprise now includes approximately 40,000 students, 17,000 employees and more than $486 million in annual research expenditures. Its growing endowment tops $1.3 billion. The merger joins two Carnegie R1 (“very high research activity”) universities, an elite designation reserved for the top 5% of research institutions in United States, and represents the nation’s largest integration of universities by total research dollars and endowment since 2013.