About Touro University California

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Touro University California is a private graduate moot focused primarily upon health professions and located upon Mare Island in Vallejo, California. It is allocation of the Touro College and University System and is jointly administered behind its sister campus Touro University Nevada.

The university circles was founded in 1997 and was originally expected in San Francisco as an independent, Jewish-sponsored institution, but relocated to Vallejo. Today, the the academy confers degrees in graduate studies of various disciplines including education, osteopathic medicine, pharmacy, physician co-conspirator studies, nursing, and public health. The school’s campus consists of 44 acres (18 ha) and 23 buildings of the former Mare Island naval base located east of the San Pablo Bay. Although sponsored by a Jewish organization, the studious has a diverse student body of just about 1400 students as competently as 100 power members.

Vallejo (/vəˈleɪ(h)oʊ/ və-LAY-(h)oh; Spanish: [baˈʎexo]) is a marina city in Solano County, California, located in the North Bay subregion of the San Francisco Bay Area. Vallejo is geographically the closest North Bay city to the inner East Bay, so it is sometimes joined with that region. Its population was 115,942 at the 2010 census. It is the tenth most populous city in the San Francisco Bay Area, and the largest in Solano County.

The city is named after Don Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo, the famed Californio general and statesman. He was a leading proponent of California’s statehood and one of the first members of the California State Senate. The against city of Benicia is named for his wife, Francisca Benicia Carrillo de Vallejo. Vallejo has twice served as the capital of the disclose of California: once in 1852 and anew in 1853.

Vallejo sits upon the northeastern shore of San Pablo Bay, 30 mi (48 km) north of San Francisco, the northwestern shore of the Carquinez Strait and the southern terminate of the Napa River, 15 mi (24 km) south of Napa. Vallejo is home to the California Maritime Academy, Six Flags Discovery Kingdom theme park, the former Mare Island Naval Shipyard, and the regional office for Region 5 of the United States Forest Service.