The move is UBC’s biggest out-of-Vancouver expansion in years, and is aimed at serving the growing Surrey population and the increasing number of students who come from there
The University of British Columbia is about to launch its biggest out-of-Vancouver expansion in years, with the purchase of a $70-million lot at a key intersection in Surrey, to be developed into a campus.
“The excitement is palpable out there. Since my arrival, leadership in Surrey have reached out and said they wanted an even greater presence, asking us to get closer.” UBC is making the purchase less than a year after the province announced that Simon Fraser University, which has had a strong presence in the city since 2006, would be getting a medical school for its Surrey campus. It will be the region’s second medical school after UBC’s.
He said the city centre Surrey is trying to develop further away on King George Boulevard, where SFU and city hall are, would have been a good location for the new campus, but the university found its own site instead.
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