Students celebrating on campus.

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.

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USF by the Numbers

#1

in campus diversity among national universities

U.S. News & World Report 2025
Best in the West
The Best 390 Colleges: 2025 Edition
Best Value

among national universities

U.S. News & World Report 2025
Top 15%

Featured in the Princeton Review Best 390 Colleges list for 2025
 

The Best 390 Colleges: 2025 Edition
96.9%

Satisfied or strongly satisfied on graduating student survey

#2

Best college location in California

NICHE 2024
Najashi Belcher in the Financial District

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.

Kelly Tran