MERCED, Calif. (KFSN) -- As UC Merced students returned for the first day of the fall semester Wednesday, construction crews continued work on the university's new Medical Education Building.

The four-story, 200,000-square-foot facility will house instructional and research spaces, academic offices and the campus' B.S. to M.D. Pathway program. The building is expected to open in fall 2026, with the first medical students starting classes there in 2027.

"We already have our first two cohorts of B.S. to M.D.," Chancellor Juan Sánchez Muñoz said. "They'll finish their bachelor's of science here and immediately begin medical school in this building in the fall of 2027."

About 9,000 students started classes this week, including the third cohort in the pathway program. Muñoz said the facilit

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