1947:

A constitutional amendment to the PUF was passed to accommodate rapidly increasing enrollments. The amendment authorized a bond issue backed by the AUF of $10 million for The University of Texas, $2 million of which was allotted to the U. T. Medical Branch at Galveston and $5 million for Texas A&M.

1949:

U. T. SW Medical Center at Dallas



After World War II, leaders of Southwestern Medical Foundation offered the college's equipment, library, and certain restricted funds to The University of Texas, provided the university would locate its new medical branch in Dallas. The Board of Regents accepted this offer from the foundation, and in 1949 the college became Southwestern Medical School of The University of Texas.

1950:

With the ushering in of the Nuclear Age and the end of WWII, an explosion of a different kind was born, the post-war Baby Boom. Thousands of new students sponsored by the G.I. Bill would soon cause an increase in college attendance of unprecedented proportions and whose effect would be evident on institutions of higher education for years to come. On June 25, 1950, the Korean War begins.