Who We Are
Welcome to the university in the heart of San Francisco.
Come make friends and meet your mentors. Find food and music, shops and museums, cultures and communities. Take classes that stretch you, land internships that inspire you, do research that matters. Come earn a degree in changing the world.
Come Change the World
From Here
Like the city that surrounds it, the University of San Francisco offers you energy, optimism, and opportunity that you won’t find anywhere else. USF is a climb up Lone Mountain. USF is the poem you write for an engineering project. USF is small classes with professors who know their stuff and know your name. USF is late nights in Gleeson. USF is why? And why not? And says who? And what if? It’s ice cream with friends in the Mission. It’s boba at Baker Beach. It’s a ride on Muni. It’s an internship downtown. It’s shadowing a nurse in a neighborhood clinic. USF is a practice job interview with your career coach. It’s playing basketball in the fall and watching baseball in the spring. USF is an open door. USF is a place at the table. USF is you in the heart of the city that invents tomorrow, surrounded by people who care, working to change the world for the better.
Why Go to USF?
- To Celebrate <span class="highlight">Diversity</span>
- To Seek <span class="highlight">Justice</span>
- To Heal the <span class="highlight">Planet</span>
- To <span class="highlight">End Violence</span>
- To Learn to <span class="highlight">Earn</span>
- To Serve the <span class="highlight">Common Good</span>
To Celebrate Diversity
Whatever your creed, culture, color, country, identity, and orientation, you are welcome at USF.
To Seek Justice
At USF, the fight for fairness is a way of life. Come pursue justice in the classroom and in the community.
To Heal the Planet
Join the community that's working to serve and to save our common home.
To End Violence
The Institute for Nonviolence and Social Justice at USF addresses the most urgent social problems in our communities, across the nation, and around the world.
To Learn to Earn
Come develop the skills that employers crave most: How to think. How to create. How to collaborate.
To Serve the Common Good
Come to USF and improve the world — starting right here in San Francisco. Whatever your major, you’ll earn a degree in making a difference.
John Fitzgibbons, S.J.
Our chancellor spreads the word of our Jesuit mission.
What makes USF Different?
USF is on the cutting edge of Jesuit higher education. It is one of the most diverse places I have ever encountered. It’s where culture and faith meet."
John Fitzgibbons, S.J.
Our chancellor spreads the word of our Jesuit mission.
Najashi Belcher ’24
Hospitality Management, BA
First Generation Strong
I want to become a leader in an industry where you don’t see many Black people in leadership.”
Najashi Belcher ’24
Hospitality Management, BA
Come Stretch
Your Vision
Come to USF and meet people from all over the planet. In the tradition of Jesuit education, you'll learn how to explore, engage, and serve the world.
