About Texas A&M Health Science Center

Round Rock is a city in the U.S. state of Texas, in Williamson County (with a small part in Travis County), which is a part of the Greater Austin metropolitan area. Its population was 99,887 at the 2010 census.

The city straddles the Balcones Escarpment, a irregularity line in which the areas almost east of Interstate 35 are flat and characterized by having black, fertile soils of the Blackland Prairie, and the west side of the Escarpment, which consists mostly of hilly, karst-like terrain with little topsoil and superior elevations and which is share of the Texas Hill Country. Located not quite 20 miles (32 km) north of downtown Austin, Round Rock shares a common border with Austin at Texas State Highway 45.

In August 2008, Money named Round Rock as the seventh-best American little city in which to live. Round Rock was the and no-one else Texas city to make the Top 10. In a CNN article old-fashioned July 1, 2009, Round Rock was listed as the second-fastest-growing city in the country, with a population mass of 8.2% in the preceding year.

According to the 2008 ratings from the Texas Education Agency, the Round Rock Independent School District ranks among the best in the state. Of 42 schools within it, 12 were rated exemplary and 11 were recognized.

Round Rock is perhaps best known as the international headquarters of Dell Technologies, which employs not quite 16,000 people at its Round Rock facilities. The presence of Dell along with supplementary major employers, an economic onslaught program, major retailers such as IKEA, a Premium Outlet Mall, and the mixed-use La Frontera center, have tainted Round Rock from a sleepy bedroom community into its own self-contained “super suburb.”