<p>What if UC Berkeley one day decided to begin its own med school. How prestigious do you think it would be?</p>
<p>Would it be better than UC San Francisco? Would it suffer from competition with its cross town rival?</p>
<p>UCSF use to be Berkeley’s medical school. But, the state just decided to separate the schools because of the distance and some other factors.</p>
<p>Apparently we’re in the process of constructing some kind of medical center, but I doubt we’re going to be adding a full-scale med school any time soon.</p>
<p>Berkeley does not have a medical school because the UC system recognizes it would be fiscally irresponsible to have to two UC medical schools within 20 minutes of eachother.</p>
<p>From what I’ve heard, medical schools tend to draw lots of research dollars, and Berkeley wants to attract more research money. Since we can’t make are own medical school, we are developing the Li Ka Shing Center for Biomedical and Health Sciences. It is supposed to be entirely a research building (i.e. you wouldn’t have classes in there, but I suppose your office hours for certain classes could be there)</p>
<p>It has been strategically named to attract more medical research dollars. It is just an extension of MCB if you look at the what its “four pillars of research” are [Li</a> Ka Shing Foundation](<a href=“http://www.lksf.org/eng/project/medical/berkeley/main01.shtml]Li”>http://www.lksf.org/eng/project/medical/berkeley/main01.shtml). Considering MCB professors already do this important research, it is basically just a new building filled with new state-of-the-art labs.</p>
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Because building Stanley Hall wasn’t good enough, apparently. :)</p>
<p>Cal has a long history of having facilities spin off to become new UC campuses. The medical school became UCSF. The agricultural facility/farm became UC Davis. The southern annex became UCLA.</p>
<p>that’s right. we’re the REAL university of california. everything is just a spin-off. haha jk.</p>
<p>Thus we are called Cal - the states university of California.</p>
<p>@rider730, you took the words right out of my mouth. </p>
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<p>God, I love Berkeley! If we kept Davis and UCSF as our facilities, we would definitely rival Stanford and Harvard. No question.</p>
<p>And if UCSF were still UCB Medical School, maybe more than 1% of the U.S. population would know what the hell UCSF is!</p>