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Texas Tech representatives have said the estimated cost of the college's proposed vet school is $65 million to $90 million and that Tech would enter into a collaborative relationship with regional clinics to forgo an expensive animal hospital.

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Texas A&M, which viewed the report as a justification of its efforts to expand its veterinary school, is working to open a $120 million veterinary teaching complex and is sending veterinary specialists to some of its regional campuses to try to increase the number of applicants from those areas.

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The sum of $90 million sounds like a lot of money, but it really is not when it comes to build utilities, infrastructure, and facilities that makes up an encompassing school. Granted it is not a true apples-to-apples comparison, but the US military just spent over $720 million dollars on the new San Antonio Medical Center -- the point is that something like a medical/vet program is not cheap to carry out

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I'm extremely embarrassed.

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The sum of $90 million sounds like a lot of money, but it really is not when it comes to build utilities, infrastructure, and facilities that makes up an encompassing school. Granted it is not a true apples-to-apples comparison, but the US military just spent over $720 million dollars on the new San Antonio Medical Center -- the point is that something like a medical/vet program is not cheap to carry out

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comparing the cost of a startup vet program to the cost of a 500-bed level 1 trauma center owned and operated by the United States government isn't apples to apples...it's more like apples to volkswagons.

90 million will go a long way, especially when they use a facility already built.

But awesome post either way. Man Tech is so poor!

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I am sorry that you missed my point. Let me try it from another direction instead. The construction at SAMC is more than a new hospital, but also includes teaching spaces, offices, parking, infrastructure (lots of utilities) -- it is not cheap. The new Wilford Hall at Lackland AFB was in the $450 million range by itself, which is an ambulatory facility and more serious cases go to BAMC. It just goes to show how Tech is trying to save money by instead of building a clinic, it is putting its money in items like offices, utilities, and classrooms.

Let's say that Tech raises $75 million dollars to do whatever is in their master plan. The fees for the architectural-engineering services, construction oversight, and contingencies will run about 20% and be taken off the top. Now that $75 million is about $61 million. Will the new Tech vet complex be in an area with other facilities or will it need to spend more money on getting sewer, water, roads, parking, electricity, and telecommunications too? Lets say the runs will not be much, so $2 million for utilities alone. Save money for utilities means that a parking structure may likely have to be built to compensate. Which leaves about $59 million for a building.

According to the Amarillo Global News in January 2015, Xcel was planning to construct an office building for $42 million. The cost is for about 520 employees and about 119,000 SF of space. Lets say that the vet school will use something similar to this HQ building, but in addition to normal office and classroom (comparable to large conference rooms) spaces, the school needs to also needs some rudimentary clinical spaces. The specialized spaces will cost more per SF, which means a small building in the process. The city is to spend another $14 million on a parking garage for the area.

Just using $75 million dollars as an example, the money does not go very far and that does not even count the money for space to do the hands-on stuff.

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The fight is still on.

Tard wants to build one from scratch while we are proposing satellite campuses of our existing vet school in places like Canyon at WTAMU

If they don't like it then they shouldn't have helped block us from getting s law school all those years and then cry when the shoes on the other foot

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I graduated in 2002 and have split my working years between Semiconductors and industrial oil and gas sales. Lived in Austin and Houston and sell all over the state. Not once have I ever crossed paths with a TBAT grad in a working environment or seen their Xerox degree in a frame. I'm being 100% honest when I ask what the hell do they all do for work?

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The fight is still on.

Tard wants to build one from scratch while we are proposing satellite campuses of our existing vet school in places like Canyon at WTAMU

If they don't like it then they shouldn't have helped block us from getting s law school all those years and then cry when the shoes on the other foot

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Pretty sure you **********s have been blocking that vet school at least as long as we opposed the law school.

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Halliburton and Baker Hughes are my 2 current customers. I work directly with their drilling tool engineering departments. Not a TBATer in either company.

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I graduated in 2002 and have split my working years between Semiconductors and industrial oil and gas sales. Lived in Austin and Houston and sell all over the state. Not once have I ever crossed paths with a TBAT grad in a working environment or seen their Xerox degree in a frame. I'm being 100% honest when I ask what the hell do they all do for work?

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Given that Tech has a damn good petroleum engineering program, the better question is what are you doing with your career???

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The sum of $90 million sounds like a lot of money, but it really is not when it comes to build utilities, infrastructure, and facilities that makes up an encompassing school. Granted it is not a true apples-to-apples comparison, but the US military just spent over $720 million dollars on the new San Antonio Medical Center -- the point is that something like a medical/vet program is not cheap to carry out

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comparing the cost of a startup vet program to the cost of a 500-bed level 1 trauma center owned and operated by the United States government isn't apples to apples...it's more like apples to volkswagons.

90 million will go a long way, especially when they use a facility already built.

But awesome post either way. Man Tech is so poor!

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Texas Tech University's plans to build a new veterinary school in Amarillo use an approach that forgoes expensive construction and potentially allows undergraduates to enter the program earlier, with the hope that the school will receive significant philanthropic support.

On Wednesday, Tech System Chancellor Robert Duncan and other Tech officials presented several ways they plan to overcome upcoming hurdles in their quest to open the school by the fall of 2019: Gaining approval of the program from The Higher Education Coordinating Board, Texas' higher education oversight agency, and securing funding from the Texas Legislature.
In a recent report, Coordinating Board staff recognized that there isn't a need for a new traditional veterinary school, but members left the door open for a college that can find an "innovative, cost-efficient" way to produce large-animal veterinarians, which are in short supply in Texas.
The university hopes to accelerate the time to a DVM degree for students by allowing undergraduates to enter the degree program after two or three years instead of the traditional four.

umber of family practitioners, which face a similar issue revolving around student debt and salaries.
"We wouldn't condense the four years of professional veterinary training, but where we can focus is the pre-vet period," Interim Vice President for Research Guy Loneragan said.

Another primary focus of the university will be implementing a veterinary school model developed in Calgary, which involves forging partnerships with regional veterinary practices to provide clinical experiences for students in lieu of a centralized teaching hospital.
"I think it's going to be a very efficient model for the legislature to consider," Duncan said, adding that he planned for the system to seek state funding during the next legislative session, which convenes in January.
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Potentially complicating the plan is the fact that Texas A&M University System is set to soon complete a $120 million veterinary teaching complex at its flagship College Station campus and begin an initiative that will see specialists sent to regional campuses to funnel students from those areas into its bolstered veterinary school. The system in January announced that West Texas A&M University would be a part of that initiative.
A&M brass has pointed to the recent Coordinating Board report as justification of its own efforts to expand. A similar report several years ago called for Texas A&M University to increase its vet school enrollment and recognize a need for more large-animal vets.
"The solution that the Coordinating Board asked for was followed by Texas A&M completely, and now the system schools are involved in it, too," A&M System Chancellor John Sharp said during a Monday meeting with the Amarillo Globe-News editorial board.
Sharp looked to a planned $48 million Agricultural Sciences Complex at WT, which is set to largely be funded by tuition revenue bonds that are paid back by the state, as supporting a pipeline from the Texas Panhandle to College Station. Sharp also said the system planned on asking for more appropriations to further strengthen its partnership with regional universities.
Referring to the two plans, Sharp said, "The legislature is not going to fund them both

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So if I understand there is not small animal or large animal specific certification. So is Tech going to only give instruction in large/farm animals? Are they going to create a 'large animal certification" so that they can actually train up vets to fit the specific need that are supposedly creating this VET school to meet?

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Posted: Thursday, September 15, 2016 12:00 am

The Texas Tech University System announced the formation of a steering committee for its proposed College of Veterinary Medicine on Wednesday, moving forward with the planned program despite questions over the need for an additional veterinary medicine college in the state.

The committee, made up of veterinary, agricultural and community leaders, is set to collaborate on a vision for the proposed rural-focused college, which is planned to be established at the Texas Tech University Health Science Center in Amarillo.
Texas A&M University System Chancellor John Sharp called the Texas Tech System's decision to move forward unnecessary, raising questions over the need for an additional program alongside Texas A&M's planned expansion.
"They're trying to solve a problem that we have spent $120 million in the last five years solving and the coordinating board told us to solve," Sharp said. "I think the coordinating board spoke it better than I do; we don't need another vet school. This one is the third-best in the country, and there's no reason to dilute it by taking money away from it to give to some other vet school that may or may not even be accredited."
In July, the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board reaffirmed its earlier decision that the state is not in need of any additional veterinary colleges to supplement those operated through the Texas A&M University System, including new regional partnerships with West Texas A&M University, Prairie View A&M University, Texas A&M University-Kingsville and Tarleton State University that were announced in January.

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