The Lone Star state has 27 million people and nine medical schools. Former university president Dr. Richard A. Skinner acknowledges much of the attention in the American higher education is on “ constraints and reductions , ” but he highlights medical schools as a growth driver . Skinner writes in Texas Business that projected physician shortages are contributing to growth , as is the need for biomedical research to achieve technological advances . Despite medical schools being extremely expensive , both to build and to attend , Texas has opened three new medicine - related schools since 2009 , taking its total to nine medical schools for a population of 27 million people , the highest distribution in the US .
Former university president Dr. Richard A. Skinner acknowledges much of the attention in the American higher education is on “ constraints and reductions , ” but he highlights medical schools as a growth driver . Skinner writes in Texas Business that projected physician shortages are contributing to growth , as is the need for biomedical research to achieve technological advances . Despite medical schools being extremely expensive , both to build and to attend , Texas has opened three new medicine - related schools since 2009 , taking its total to nine medical schools for a population of 27 million people , the highest distribution in the US .