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List of colleges and universities in San Francisco
Despite its limited geographical space, San Francisco, California is home to over a dozen colleges and universities. Within Downtown San Francisco alone, there are institutions that serve over 13,000 enrolled students.
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 and with a downtown campus since 2007
- University of California College of the Law, San Francisco, 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
- Arthur A. Dugoni School of Dentistry, part of the University of the Pacific
- California College of the Arts - closing in 2027
- California Institute of Integral Studies, in downtown San Francisco
- Golden Gate University
- Hult International Business School (Hult San Francisco Campus)
- Minerva Schools at KGI
- Notre Dame de Namur University
- San Francisco Conservatory of Music
- San Francisco School of Digital Filmmaking
- University of San Francisco, Jesuit-run; located on Lone Mountain
- Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
Private colleges and universities which were previously in San Francisco:
- Art Institute of California - San Francisco, now closed
- California Culinary Academy, now closed
- California School of Professional Psychology, now part of Alliant International University, in Emeryville, CA
- DeVry University, no longer in San Francisco
- The Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising (FIDM), now closed
- Heald College, now closed
- New College of California, now closed
- Presidio Graduate School, now part of University of Redlands, and moved to San Anselmo, CA
- San Francisco Art Institute, now closed
- San Francisco Law School, now part of Alliant International University, in Emeryville, CA
- Saybrook University, now in Oakland