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The College of Health Sciences offers a range of nationally accredited professional education programs in the health, rehabilitation and human service fields. With over 400 local and national clinical training facilities, our learners receive hands-on practicum experience and community engagement opportunities throughout their education.

Our degree programs lead to careers in several professional fields that consistently rank among the  100 Best Jobs in health-related fields:

Our graduate and undergraduate students work alongside our award-winning faculty and community partners to develop and implement high impact projects that are relevant to improving health outcomes in the Paso del Norte region and abroad.

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Celia Pechak, Ph.D. (left), associate DPT Program director and associate professor, along with co-principal investigators Emre Umucu, Ph.D. (second from left), assistant professor in the Rehabilitation Counseling Program, and Loretta Dillon, DPT (right), clinical professor in the DPT Program, validate a language assessment that measures Spanish proficiency of students in the Doctor of Physical Therapy (DPT) Program. The research is through a grant from Health Policy and Administration (HPA) Section of the American Physical Therapy Association (APTA).

UTEP Awarded Physical Therapy Grant

A grant from the Health Policy and Administration (HPA) Section of the American Physical Therapy Association (APTA) will enable researchers at The University of Texas at El Paso’s College of Health Sciences to validate a language assessment that measures Spanish proficiency of students in the Doctor of Physical Therapy (DPT) Program.

Caleb Tullius, a senior music education major, presents his research at the 2019 Campus Office of Undergraduate Research Initiatives (COURI) Spring Symposium on April 13, 2019. His project looked into the effects of the rules that govern the selection of music that can be played during musical competitions at public schools in Texas. Photo by Ivan Pierre Aguirre / UTEP Communications

2019 COURI Spring Symposium Pushes Culture of Undergraduate Research Forward

Evelyn Tovanche, a senior biomedical sciences major in The University of Texas at El Paso's College of Science, said her research experience in the summer of 2018 was life changing.

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The University of Texas at El Paso
College of Health Sciences
Health Sciences and Nursing Building
500 W. University Ave.
El Paso, Texas 79968

E: healthsciences@utep.edu
P: (915) 747 – 7280
F: (915) 747 – 7207