SCHOOL HALLMARKS For more than a century, the VMBS has served our state, nation, and the world. The school continues to: • • • • • • •
Serve Texas and beyond while advancing animal, human, and environmental health. Provide viable, diverse professional career paths for Texans. Support the state’s livestock and wildlife industries. Promote science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education. Contribute to the economic viability and job opportunities of local communities. Provide sophisticated disaster and emergency response support for animals throughout the state. Advance the veterinary medical profession.
Our strengths are many. In 2022, we were: • • • •
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Ranked #1 in the Southeastern Conference (SEC) and ranked #2 this year behind Iowa State by U.S. News & World Report’s rankings of the nation’s best schools and programs. One of the largest schools of veterinary medicine in the U.S., training over 655 DVM students each year, with an annual entering class of 180 students. As of May 2022, the VMBS has graduated 8,758 veterinarians. Ranked #4 in the number of graduate (283 MS and PhD) students at a U.S. school of veterinary medicine. The home of the Texas A&M Biomedical Sciences (BIMS) program, which is the largest degree-granting undergraduate major at Texas A&M, had a student enrollment of 2,616, and made up a large portion of Aggies that matriculated to Texas medical (43.5%), dental (45%), and veterinary (44%) professional schools. Fostering partnerships with Texas A&M University System schools and other institutions of higher education around the state to provide Texans with new and innovative avenues to pursue degrees as professional DVM students and undergraduate BIMS students. A proud recipient of the 2021 Health Professions Higher Education Excellence in Diversity (HEED) Award from INSIGHT Into Diversity magazine—our fifth consecutive year to be honored. Continuing our collaboration with Baylor College of Medicine and the University of Houston as the first recipient of a National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) Center grant at Texas A&M University—for the Center for Translational Environmental Health Research.
4 • 2022 VMBS Annual Report
