To accommodate a rapidly growing student population, officials at one of the leading graduate schools of acupuncture and Chinese medicine opened the doors of a larger state-of-the-art campus this month.   The Academy of Oriental Medicine at Austin (AOMA) is now operating at its new 20,000-square-foot campus located in the southern part of the city. The school has also adopted a new descriptor: AOMA Graduate School of Integrative Medicine along with a new brand and logo.

The school's makeover was the result of school officials planning ahead for a projected growth in size in the next five years. Since it opened its doors in 1993, the school has seen an increase in both students and faculty from around the world, school officials said.

The previous space for the campus was 17,500-square-feet accommodating 213 students. Officials said the new facility, with an additional 5,000 feet of future development space, would be able to accommodate up to 400 students.

Some of the new additional upgrades to the new campus include: five smart media classrooms, a student intern clinic, a mind/body center, faculty and administrative offices, an expanded library, student and faculty gathering spaces, group study areas, an herbal medicine center and a bookstore/retail space.

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