The University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC) is a public academic health sciences center located on 42nd and Emile Streets in Midtown Omaha, Nebraska. UNMC is the only public academic health science center in Nebraska and educates many students from around the state. Four UNMC colleges or programs were listed in the U.S. News & World Report’s ranking of America’s Best Graduate Schools 2009 including the College of Medicine’s primary care and rural health programs, which were both ranked in the top 20. Nearly half of Nebraska’s physicians, dental professionals, pharmacists, bachelor-prepared nurses and allied health professionals have graduated from UNMC. UNMC opened the $52.7 million Michael F. Sorrell Center for Health Science Education in 2008. The Sorrell Center replaced obsolete facilities with technologically equipped classrooms and class laboratories, including clinical simulation rooms, interaction rooms, amphitheaters and a campus events center. Construction of the Sorrell Center was funded completely through private donations. In January 2007, UNMC added a College of Public Health to its academic enterprise.