Students at a table encourage voter registration

Learn to Create Impact

Tutor students in the Western Addition. Register voters all across the city. Build an app that improves lives. Come to USF and learn how to change the world in ways small and large.

 

Engage the Community

In service-learning classes and community engaged learning programs, you work with neighbors and organizations that address local challenges.

 

students walking along clarion alley in the mission

Join the Erasmus Living-Learning Community

Erasmus is a year-long course that brings together second- and third-year students from various undergraduate majors to study and practice ethics, service, and justice. 

A group of students talk near St. Ignatius Church.

Make a Difference

“Change the world from here” is much more than a slogan. It's a dare. At USF we challenge you, our faculty, staff, and alumni to change the world for the better.

Isabella Escutia

Advocate for Nursing Education

At many universities, only graduate students do research. At USF, undergraduate students do research, too.

Andre Canta headshot

Design for Justice

An alum got a job creating litigation graphics used in courtrooms.

Students abroad

Strengthen Health Systems Abroad

Dyrin Hernandez-Chavez '26 immersed myself in global health by participating in the Lesotho Global Health Immersion Program

Change the World from Here

San Francisco Hilltop Campus

The main campus of USF, "the Hilltop" is located in the geographic center of San Francisco, giving you easy access to everything the city has to offer.

USF campus looking up the central walkway towards the church