<p>I never understood why UCSF never had undergraduate programs. Wouldn't they make a lot of money by giving UCSF a undergraduate school?</p>
<p>The UCs are state-funded and thus operate at a loss, kept salient by the taxpayers. UCSF is just a few minutes from Cal, and there’d be a lot of regional overlap. The closest three UCs (UCLA, UCI, UCR) are still about a half an hour from each other to correct for that.</p>
<p>lol @ half hour. Maybe if you’re driving after an apocalypse :)</p>
<p>Haha, seriously, Riverside is at least an hour away from UCLA on a good day driving at 80+, Irvine… good luck on the 405 or 91 :)</p>
<p>This would be great, but I have a feeling adding to the UCSF campus and all would be a pain in the butt. UCB and UCD are pretty darn well overloaded right now and UCM is actually filling up enough that I really doubt opening up UCSF to undergrads would be an issue.</p>
<p>make UCSF A part of the Berkeley campus. Its like how UC Davis medical school is not in davis but in sacramento.</p>
<p>well it’s really old, so this was probably before they thought that schools should have med schools, which is the only reason berkeley doesn’t have one whereas other prestigious UCs do (e.g. UCLA)</p>
<p>i wonder sometimes even if berkeley did have a medical school if it would be better than UCLA’s; i doubt it though.</p>
<p>anyways, UCSF has earned its own name as is pretty top tier in the health sciences field. There’d be no point in giving it an undergraduate school, if they did anything, it would most likely get absorbed by berkeley.</p>
<p>^ UCSF began as UC Berkeley’s medical school. So technically, it started with a undergraduate program but then split into its own separate identity.</p>