Mission Bay by the Numbers

The central campus green, called the Koret Quad, is one of the many open spaces that are part of the Mission Bay development.

Mission Bay at 10 years

The Campus

16 years in the making
Mission Bay Land: 57 acres, 43 of which were donated by the city of San Franicsco and Catellus Development Corp.
Land value: >$170 million in 1996
Buildings: 13 research facilities; 3 clinical facilities for the medical center
3 buildings yet to open: UCSF Medical Center, outpatient building, global health faculty building
Koret Quad is 3.2 acres
Campus Investment: $1.4 billion, from 2001 to 2011
Total Investment (including the Medical Center): $3 billion, from 2001 to 2015
52 artists represented throughout the campus

Graduate Division students enjoy a 2012 back-to-school barbecue in Koret Quad.

4 chancellors involved in creating and expanding Mission Bay (Joseph Martin, MD, PhD; Haile Debas, MD; J. Michael Bishop, MD; Susan Desmond-Hellmann, MD, MPH)
3 Nobel laureates currently doing research on campus (Stanley Prusiner, MD; Elizabeth Blackburn, PhD; Shinya Yamanaka, MD, PhD)
300 students
1,003 construction jobs
UCSF employees: 2,990 on campus; 1,000 in surrounding area
891 residents in Mission Bay housing, including 59 children.
Mission Bay outpatient visits per year: 85,334

Rock climbers scale the wall at Bakar Fitness and Recreation Center.

Mission Bay Conference Center hosts 512 events per year, serving 57,980 people
Bakar Fitness and Recreation Center: 6,759 members, with an average daily attendance of 1,106
10,000 vials of immortalized cell lines for research from the UCSF Cell Culture Facility
The UCSF Cell Culture Facility provides $250,000 worth of kits and reagents at Mission Bay per month
Millions of fruit flies singularly focused on teaching us how our bodies work
A 7-tesla MRI machine offers the highest-quality scans available
8 eateries feeding the Mission Bay community
>100 vending machines offer Smart Choice options