About UCSF > Facts & Figures

Built in 1897, the University of California, San Francisco includes the 107-acre Parnassus campus that is home to graduate professionals in dentistry, medicine, nursing and pharmacy; a graduate division for predoctoral and postdoctoral scientists; UCSF Medical Center; UCSF Children's Hospital; and Langley Porter Psychiatric Institute. In 2003, UCSF opened its 43-acre Mission Bay campus, just south of downtown San Francisco.

UCSF, which became part of the University of California in 1873, is the only UC campus dedicated exclusively to the health sciences. UCSF now encompasses several major sites in San Francisco, in addition to its Parnassus Heights location above Golden Gate Park. It also includes UCSF Mount Zion and maintains partnerships with two affiliated institutions, San Francisco General Hospital Medical Center and the Veterans Affairs Medical Center.

Chancellor: J. Michael Bishop, MD

Number of students: 2,951

Number of Faculty and Staff: 17,994

Number of residents (physicians, dentists and pharmacists in training): 1,450

Number of postdoctoral scholars: 1,100

Number of International Students, Scholars, Faculty, Residents and Fellows: 1,940

Number of countries represented among the students and postdoctoral scholars: 78

Number of current major sites in San Francisco: 12

Projected completion date of Mission Bay campus: 2020

Projected number of employees at completed Mission Bay campus: 9,000

Annual budget: $2.60 billion

Research awards from all sources: $764 million

Research awards from public sources: $620 million

National ranking of UCSF's National Institutes of Health funding: 4

Nobel laureates: J. Michael Bishop and Harold Varmus, 1989, for discovery of proto-oncogenes, showing that normal cellular genes can be converted to cancer genes; Stanley Prusiner, 1997, for discovery of prions, an entirely new infectious agent implicated in rare, slowly progressing brain diseases such as mad cow disease.

Number of National Academy of Sciences members: 34

Number of Institute of Medicine members: 72

Number of life sciences companies with direct roots to UCSF inventions, technology or personnel: nearly 70

Number of patents: more than 800 active issued US patents, plus more than 800 active issued foreign patents, including the UC system's top revenue producer for the last 14 years - the hepatitis B vaccine - in addition to two other inventions in the top 17. Patents include a cochlear implant helping deaf people to hear; aids for the learning disabled; a technique for delivering medicines to the body's cells; a form of recombinant DNA used for the production of therapeutic agents; and magnetic resonance imaging.

Economic impact in Bay Area: UCSF generates 23,000 full-time jobs and $1.8 billion in sales and income (based on data from 2000-01 fiscal year).

Diversity: Of UCSF staff, 52.5 percent are minorities and 68.1 percent are women. Of faculty, 27.5 percent are minorities and 42.9 percent are women. In the student body, 54 percent are minorities and 64 percent are women.

UCSF School of Dentistry

Interim Dean: John Featherstone, MSc, PhD

Highlights: This year is celebrating its 125th anniversary; founded in 1881; first dental school west of the Mississippi; 368 students; leads nation in federal research funding; more than 120,000 patient visits per year to its 14 dental clinics in San Francisco.

UCSF School of Medicine

Interim Dean: Sam Hawgood, MB, BS

Highlights: Founded in 1864 as Toland Medical College; affiliated with UC in 1873; 600 students; consistently ranks in top 10 of medical schools in US; ranks fourth in National Institutes of Health dollars awarded; three faculty named Nobel Prize winners.

School of Nursing

Dean: Kathleen Dracup, RN, FNP, DNSc, FAAN

Highlights: Established in 1939 as the first autonomous school of nursing in any state university; first university west of the Mississippi to offer a doctoral degree in nursing; 602 students; five out of seven specialties ranked first or second by US News and World Report; ranks first in National Institutes of Health dollars awarded.

School of Pharmacy

Dean: Mary Anne Koda-Kimble, PharmD

Highlights: Founded in 1872, first college of pharmacy established in the West and the 10th in the US; 489 PharmD students, 154 PhD students and 111 residents and fellows; ranked number one by US. News and World Report; ranks first in National Institutes of Health dollars awarded; first to train pharmacists as clinical health care providers.

First to develop computer software that calculates and displays in three dimensions how potential drugs might attach to target molecules.

First to establish the physiological basis for describing drug distribution in the body by introducing the concept of drug "clearance."

Administers the California Poison Control System.

Tops all US universities and colleges in both total and federally financed spending for chemistry research and development.

UCSF Graduate Division

Dean: Patricia Calarco, PhD

Highlights: Founded in 1961; offers 18 graduate academic programs; 842 PhD and 437 master's students; nationally recognized for its wide range of opportunities for graduate study and research in basic, clinical and policy health sciences - biological, biomedical, pharmaceutical, nursing, and social and behavioral sciences, as well as in physical therapy.