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Petitioner, Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford), seeks a peremptory writ of mandate to compel respondents, State Controller and State Treasurer, to pay petitioner’s claim for state funds pursuant to former Education Code sections 31285.1 to 31285.4, now sections 69790 to 69793.

Section 69790 is a declaration by the Legislature that the furtherance of a greater supply of competent physicians and surgeons is a public purpose of great importance to provide needed medical services to the people of California; that some institutions of higher education in this state offering a doctor of medicine degree have available facilities and personnel capable of increasing enrollment at a lower cost than required to accomplish the same end by the establishment of new medical schools; that it is to the benefit of the state to increase the number of competent physicians and surgeons graduated by its colleges and universities. Section 69792 creates a medical contract program for study leading to a medical degree.

A Student Aid Commission (Ed. Code, § 69515) is authorized by section 69793 to contract on behalf of the state with private colleges and…