Despite its limited geographical space, San Francisco, California is home to a multitude of colleges and universities.
Public colleges and universities include:
- City College of San Francisco, one of the largest community colleges in the country; in Ingleside, with several extension campuses
- San Francisco State University, in the southwest corner of the city near Lake Merced
- University of California, Hastings College of the Law, located downtown at its Civic Center
- University of California, San Francisco, primarily a graduate level health-sciences school, located in the Parnassus Heights/Inner Sunset neighborhood and in Mission Bay, San Francisco, California.
Private colleges and universities:
- Academy of Art University
- Alliant International University, formerly California School of Professional Psychology
- Art Institute of California - San Francisco, a private campus which focuses on video game and design-based education (interior, fashion etc.)
- Arthur A. Dugoni School of Dentistry, part of the University of the Pacific
- California College of the Arts, an Oakland-based school
- California Institute of Integral Studies, in downtown San Francisco
- DeVry University
- The Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising (FIDM)
- Golden Gate University, a private, nonsectarian, coeducational university located in the Financial District of Downtown San Francisco
- Heald College, in the Financial District
- Hult International Business School (formerly known as the Arthur D. Little School of Management), on the San Francisco waterfront and across from the headquarters of Levi Strauss & Co.
- Minerva Schools at KGI
- New College of California, now defunct, was located in the Mission District
- Presidio Graduate School
- San Francisco Art Institute
- San Francisco Conservatory of Music
- San Francisco Law School
- San Francisco School of Digital Filmmaking
- Saybrook University
- University of San Francisco, Jesuit-run; located on Lone Mountain
- Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, in the Financial District
See also
- List of colleges and universities in California