Horizon Collective
Your Path to a Career That Matters
Graduating with the skills to land a good job is one thing. USF’s new Horizon Collective sets its sights much higher. Join the Collective and you not only start building your career from your first class, you do it surrounded by other students — different majors, different perspectives — working together to solve some of the most pressing issues of our time.
Gain the Skills You — and the World — Need Most
As Horizon Fellows, you and your classmates from 13 different majors will train to succeed in the world tomorrow by working on real problems today, in the center of a city known for innovation. You’ll focus on three critical arenas where USF excels and global needs (and jobs) are growing: climate and sustainability, health and wellbeing, and AI and technology. Why this focus? Because the fight for healthier people and a healthier planet needs experts and leaders in all three fields who can work together. And learning how to tackle complex problems from multiple perspectives, in service of a common goal, leads to more creative solutions for humanity.
Here are just a few examples of the interdisciplinary projects you could join on campus or through internships:
Climate & Sustainability
Develop software that predicts wildfires. Design a rooftop farm that cleans the air and produces vegetables in a food desert. Work with regulatory agencies and industry to reduce the environmental damage of fast fashion.
Health & Wellbeing
Work with local farms to supply fresh produce to San Francisco public schools. Support student wellness and foster a safe campus community through our own Health Promotions Services. Intern with the Centers for Disease Control and track the impact of cannabis legislation across the U.S.
AI & Technology
Use AI to build a talk-therapy app. Train AI to predict extreme weather. Use satellite data to detect deforestation in Peru.
By the time you graduate, you will have the kind of hands-on experience and perspective that employers want. And you will have helped design real solutions that can seed meaningful change in the world — locally, nationally, globally.
Create Your Future From Here
Starting in your first semester at USF, the Horizon Collective helps you find your people, your purpose, and your profession.
Hospitality Management students and their professor, Jean-Marc Fullsack, visit USF’s own Star Route Farms to brainstorm healthy menus.
Walk the Path to a
Career that Matters
With each step on the Horizon path, you gain skills and experiences that can get you hired at a job you love.
