The Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center (TTUHSC) began constructing facilities for its School of Pharmacy in 1994. The four-story main campus building in Amarillo officially opened in August 1996 with a founding class of 64 Doctor of Pharmacy (Pharm.D.) students who graduated in May 2000. Today there are nearly 600 students enrolled in the school's Pharm.D., residency and graduate programs and located in four campus communities: Amarillo, Abilene, Dallas/Fort Worth and Lubbock. Quentin R. Smith, Ph.D., is the dean of the TTUHSC School of Pharmacy .