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Fast Facts

While numbers alone can't define USF, they do tell some of our story. Explore these statistics and see what makes USF, USF.

USF Ranks

#1

in campus diversity among national universities

U.S. News & World Report 2025
Best Value

among national universities

U.S. News & World Report 2025
Top 25%

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
Top 20

for Tech Salaries

Wall Street Journal
Tyler Marcum

“I certainly was challenged at USF, and I’d be disappointed if I hadn't been challenged.”

Tyler Marcum ’19

Anna Najafi '16, Biology, BS

“USF is the perfect balance between an institution that challenges you but also provides the necessary support for students to succeed.”

Ana Najafi ’16

Strategic pharmaceutical development associate, Emery Pharma

Ryan Lopez

“The teachers care. They don't just show up and give a lecture. They interact with you. They treat you with respect.”

Ryan Lopez ’25

USF Plays

198

Students on full or partial athletic scholarships

2023-24 Academic Year
31

Intramural and Club Sports

Best in the West
The Best 390 Colleges: 2025 Edition

USF Cares

A Top Green College
Princeton Review 2025
580

tons of waste recycled or composted annually

750

megawatt-hours of clean, renewable electricity generated on campus annually

12%

reduction in annual water use since 2018

22%

reduction in annual waste generated since 2018

5,000

pounds of food donated annually

2,400

pounds of clothing and other textiles donated annually

1,700

monthly bikeshare trips that start or end at USF

93%

of USF students, faculty, and staff walk, bike, carpool, or take public transit to campus

Fr. Fitzgerald

Paul J. Fitzgerald, S.J.

USF President

Sustainability and environmental justice are expressions of our understanding that we've been given so much by God, but we don’t own the world. We are simply asked to care for it. And so we must care deeply, and from the heart.”

Paul J. Fitzgerald, S.J.

USF President