EVANSVILLE, Ind. (AP) _ Officials from three state universities are seeking almost $50 million in state funding for a planned medical school campus that they would share in downtown Evansville.

Indiana University, the University of Southern Indiana and Ivy Tech Community College are submitting requests for the portions of the campus that they would use.

IU vice president Thomas Morrison tells the Evansville Courier & Press (http://bit.ly/1z5TJnb ) that the funding request is greater than the $35 million originally planned as Ivy Tech and Southern Indiana officials want more space in the complex. The schools are asking that the funding be included in the new state budget legislators will approve next spring.

The private University of Evansville is also plan to offer programs at the center, which could draw some 2,000 health care students.