The list on pharmcas is pretty good about public vs private. But yeah, UC's are the only public schools. UOP, USC, Western U, Touro, and LLU are all private. Touro and LLU are operated by religious groups (Jewish and Seventh-Day Adventists respectively) UOP's been around for awhile, don't know much about it. Western just setup their Pharm School in (pretty sure of this) 1989. LLU in 2002. USC needs no introduction.
UCSF has been around forever + 1 day.
UCSD been around since 2002 as well.
That's about all the unimportant particulars.
Actually...some more interesting CA school of pharmacy tidbits.
UOP was actually founded by someone in the Methodist-Episocopal Church in 1851 & its name was California Wesleyan College. The name was changed a year later to University of the Pacific.
It did have a medical school - but it later was incorporated into the Stanford University Medical School, but it has no affiliation with it today. The original campus was located in Santa Clara, moved to San Jose in 1871 then finally to Stockton in 1923. The dental school is in San Francisco (& law I think).
For UCSF:
The California College of Pharmacy (the original name) in SF was founded in 1972 & was actually part of UC Berkeley starting in 1873 (the SF campus was known as the University Hospital & what is now known as UC Davis was first known as the University Farm). It was the first college of pharmacy in the west (I guess that classifies as forever +1 day
😉 ) & the tenth in the US.
The name was changed in 1934 to the College of Pharmacy of the University of California at the same time the BS degree was approved by the ACPE equivalent to replace the certification in vocational training. The graduate program leading to the MS & PhD degrees & internship in hospital pharmacy was established in 1938. The PharmD was established in 1955 & at that time, the name was changed again to maintain compliance with UC policy to the School of Pharmacy (the only UC affiliated one in the state). The clinical program was established in 1966 as an experiment & became permanent in 1969 as the final fourth year of the program.
I'll let Zpak give you USC history. I don't know that much about Tuoro or Western & UCSD is a spinoff of the UCSF program & they have very similar academic & mission focuses.
For Da - residency rules only apply to public schools in CA. The private ones can establish whatever residency guidelines & priorities they want.
However - it is good to know - if you do indeed want to establish residency in CA for a graduate program, that means you'll be doing your undergrad prereqs using out of state residency. The undergrad tuition is less than graduate, but I'm not sure it would pay off in the end. However, as someone did point out - it is difficult to get into either UCSF or UCSD & you will have to be an outstanding student if you're out-of-state. This holds for any graduate program......my daughter didn't get accepted to a UC Medical school, but was accepted to 9 out of state schools - so go figure.....being a resident assures you of - nothing.
