UT Tyler to Host School of Medicine Building Open House 

TYLER, Texas (April 20, 2026) – The University of Texas at Tyler will host an open house for the new  School of Medicine Building, the physical home of East Texas’ first medical school. The building,  located at 1100 S. Beckham Avenue in Tyler, will be open to the public 9 – 11:30 a.m. Saturday,  April 25. Community members are invited to take a self-guided tour of the state-of-the-art facility  and experience firsthand the future of medical education in East Texas. 

Construction on the building began in 2023. Built on five acres in the heart of Tyler’s Midtown  medical district, this five-story, nearly 250,000 square foot facility also features more than 140,000  square feet of clinical space, where UT Tyler School of Medicine clinical faculty will provide care.  The clinical portion includes the UT Health East Texas Advanced Imaging Center, Women’s Health  Center, Orthopedic and Sports Medicine Institute, Pulmonary Institute and Surgical Center with  eight operating rooms. 

With a mission to improve educational and health care outcomes for East Texas and beyond, UT  Tyler offers more than 90 undergraduate and graduate programs to more than 11,500 students.  Through its alignment with UT Tyler Health Science Center and UT Health East Texas, UT Tyler has  unified these entities to serve Texas with quality education, cutting-edge research and excellent  patient care. Classified by Carnegie as a doctoral research institution and by U.S. News & World  Report as a national university, UT Tyler has campuses in Tyler, Longview, Palestine and Houston.