7 Facts
⁃ Its a Public school
⁃ Located in San Francisco
⁃ At least 3,054 attend UCSF
⁃ At the University of San Francisco 35% Male and 65% Female
⁃ Tuition for all programs is $3,100 for four credits or less
⁃ A fee of $250 Non-refundable
⁃ Known for Dentistry , Medicine , and Nursing
⁃ Minimum gpa of 2.8
⁃ complete 24 semester credits or 36 quarters of transferable coursework with a cumulative gpa of 3.0+ The University of California , San Francisco (UCSF) is a center of health sciences research , patient care , and education located in San Francisco, California . Though one of the ten campuses of the University of California , it is unique for being the only university of california campus dedicated solely to graduate education , and in health and biomedical sciences . Some of UCSF's treatment centers include kidney transplants and liver transplantation , radiology , neurosurgery , oncology , opthalmology , gene therapy , women's health ,fetal surgery , pediatrics and internal medicine
Founded in 1873 , the mission of UCSF is to serve as " public university dedicated to saving lives and improving health ". The UCSF Medical Center is consistently ranked among the top 10 hospitals in he united states by U.S News & World Report who also ranked UCSF's medical school specialty program in AIDS medical care first in the country .
UCSF is administrated separately from Hastings College of Law , another UC institution located in San Francisco . In recent years , UCSF and UC have increased their collaboration , including the formation of the UCSF/Hastings Consortium on Law , Science , and Health Policy
UCSF traces its history to Dr. Hugh H. Toland , A South Carolina surgeon who found great success and wealth after moving to San Francisco in 1852 . A Previous school , the Cooper Medical College of the University of Pacific ( Founded In 1858 ) , entered a period of uncertainty in 1862 when its finder , Dr. Elias Samuel Cooper , Died in 1864 , Toland founded a new medical school , Toland Medical College , and the faculty of Cooper Medical College hose to suspend operatios and join the new school
The University of California was founded in 1868 , and by 1870 Toland Medical School began negotiating an affiliation with th new public university , meanwhile some faculty of Toland medical school elected to reopen the Medical Department of the University of the Pacific which would later become Stanford University School of Medicine . Negotiations between the Toland and the UC were complicated by Toland's demand that the medical school continue to bear his name , which he finally conceded . In March 1873 , the trustees of Toland Medical College transferred it to the Regents of the University of California , and it became " The Medical Department of the University of California " On September 15 , 1874 , the school opened its doors to female students
UCSF operates four major campus sites within the city of San Francisco and one in Fresno , California as well as numerous other minor sites scattered through San Francisco and the San Francisco Bay Area
UCSF's Mission Bay Campus , also located in San Francisco , is the largest ongoing biomedical construction project in the world , The 43-acre Mission Bay campus , opened incompanies. It will double the size of UCSF's research enterprise over the next 10 years. The biotechnology company genentech contributed $50 million toward construction of a building as part of a settlement regarding alleged theft of UCSF technology several decades earlier. Also located on the Mission Bay campus, the Arthur and Toni Rembe Rock Hall was designed by Cesar Pelli and opened in February 2004. The building
