San Francisco State University

SFSU
is a public, urban, multipurpose university that offers professional
and liberal arts undergraduate and
graduate education. It is one of twenty-three institutions in the
California State University (CSU)
system whose primary responsibility is superior teaching. While San
Francisco State University’s 7,000
full and part-time students are primarily from Northern California
and the Bay Area, the university
has an increasing national and international constituency. The student
body’s strength lies in its exceptionally diverse character
with over 68% of undergraduates representing different ethnic and
minority groups, and with an average undergraduate age of 24 years.
Balancing and serving the student body is an exceptional faculty
who come to SFSU from the world’s best institutions. The university
faculty is widely respected for outstanding and exciting teaching
as well as “cutting-edge scholarship”.

The
university’s compact main campus with its well-tended grounds
is located on the city of San Francisco’s southern edge.
Most classroom, lab, studio, administrative and dorm buildings,
and the
Library, are within a five minute walk of the striking - and very
busy - Cesar Chavez Student Center located at the center of the
campus. The entire complex houses most programs offered by the
university’s
eight colleges, including 116 bachelor’s and 95 master’s
degree programs. Several off-campus centers range from the scenic
Romberg Tiburon Center in Marin County, where marine research and
several satellite art programs are located, to the Sierra Nevada
Field Campus. The SFSU College
of Extended Learning offers extension
programs to the community in the Downtown Center (in the heart
of San Francisco) and in the Oakland
Multimedia Center across the
Bay.
Most facilities are easily accessible by public transportation.
For further information about other academic programs, consult
the university
website at http://www.sfsu.edu/