Established in 1989, WSU Spokane is the university’s 48-acre urban health sciences campus and serves as the hub for educating the state’s future generations of health professionals. Located in downtown Spokane’s University District, the campus is home to 1,200 students enrolled in WSU’s human health sciences colleges, the Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine, College of Nursing, and College of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences.

Central to the mission of the WSU Spokane campus is ensuring students are equipped with specialized and comprehensive training to pursue careers in the dynamic and continually evolving healthcare industry, with a particular focus on rural and underserved communities. The campus features clinical spaces, healthcare simulation facilities, wet labs, and classroom spaces with the latest instructional technology.

Students can pursue undergraduate, professional, and graduate-level programs at WSU Spokane, including DNP, MD, and PharmD degrees and six PhD programs. Additionally, the campus operates programs in Yakima through a partnership with the Pacific Northwest University of Health Sciences.

With nearly $45 million in research grant expenditures in FY 2024, the campus also houses bench, translational, and clinical research. Key focus areas include autism, Native and rural health, drug delivery and safety, neurological disease, and sleep.