Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center at Abilene (TTUHSC Abilene) is a

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Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center The Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center (TTUHSC) is a public medical school based in Lubbock, Texas, with additional campuses in Abilene, Amarillo, Dallas, El Paso and the Permian Basin. TTUHSC serves more than 100 counties in the ...

(TTUHSC) located in

Abilene, Texas Abilene ( ) is a city in Taylor and Jones Counties in Texas, United States. Its population was 125,182 at the 2020 census, making it the 27th-most populous city in the state of Texas. It is the principal city of the Abilene metropolitan statis ...

. The campus has a school of

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and a school of

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. The School of Pharmacy opened on August 12, 2007. Classes are held in a Spanish-themed building, constructed at a cost of

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15.5 million. The initial enrollment of 40 grew to 160 by fall of 2011. As of 2012, the school had 19 faculty members. The Julia Jones Matthews Department of Public Health is based out of the TTUHSC Abilene campus.

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