<p>It’s going to bring a lot of biotech jobs into the bay area… I wonder how this would affect the the BioE program at UC Berkeley…</p>
<p>i was listening to a story about it on npr today. dunno how it'll affect the program over there, but they said one of the reasons for choosing sf was because of berkeley and stanford.</p>
<p>i was somewhat puzzled about the decision, since theres a heavy concentration of biotech companies down near san diego, and ucsd's bioE is ranked 2nd compared to berkeley's 16th. maybe this will soon change.</p>
<p>wasn't just berkeley, but stanford too. two well respected schools are better than one? sf also threw in some perks like free rent for a few years. another aspect was it's relation to asia.</p>
<p>here's the story if you want to listen to it.
<a href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4634270%5B/url%5D">http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4634270</a></p>
<p>very useful link. I feel much better about choosing ucb over ucsd for bioE now.</p>
<p>Wow! Although I am wondering, does that mean there will only be 50 spots for employees in all of CA for that institute, or just in the SF area?</p>
<p>only 50 employees will work there and distribute the 3 billion dollars over the next decade.</p>
<p>No, the school most affected will probably be Berkeley's former medical school UCSF. Then Berkeley and Stanford.</p>
<p>yeah, of course ucsf will be affected. i'm just wondering to what extent the effect on Berkeley.</p>