Rendering

A rendering of the planned Touro University College of Dental Medicine in Albuquerque.

New Mexico will welcome its first undergraduate dental clinical training facility in 2025.

The groundbreaking for the new school, which is an extension of Touro University's College of Dental Medicine, took place Wednesday in Albuquerque. Touro, which is based in New York, was established in 1970 and offers a variety of programs to more than 19,000 students across 35 schools in four countries, according to its . With campuses in California, Illinois and Nevada, Touro is also America's largest not-for-profit Jewish institution of higher and professional education.

The university will venture into New Mexico with a nearly 70,000-square-foot clinical training facility in existing space on the campus of Albuquerque's Lovelace Biomedical Research Institute.



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