List of colleges and universities in the San Francisco Bay Area

The San Francisco Bay Area is home to many colleges and universities. The two most notable universities are Stanford University, and University of California, Berkeley, both considered among the most prestigious universities in the world. The Bay Area is home to two of the twenty-eight Jesuit universities in the U.S.: Santa Clara University (founded in 1851), and University of San Francisco (1855); these are also two of the three oldest California colleges. The third, San Jose State University, is the founding campus of the California State University (CSU) system, and is the oldest public institution of higher education on the West Coast of the United States.^[1] Saint Mary's College of California was founded in 1863 by the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of San Francisco. In 2008, there were approximately 588,000 students enrolled in college or graduate school.^[2] The San Francisco Bay Area population is near the top in the Nation for overall education level with approximately 41 percent of residents aged 25 years and over having a bachelor's degree or higher. The San Francisco and San Jose Primary Metropolitan Statistical Areas rank third and fourth in college graduates, ahead of Boston and behind only Boulder–Longmont, CO PMSA and Stamford–Norwalk, CT PMSA. The Oakland PMSA ranks eleventh.^[3]

Public University of California, Berkeley San José State University Berkeley City College California Maritime Academy (Vallejo) California State University, East Bay (Hayward) Cañada College (Redwood City) Chabot College (Hayward) City College of San Francisco College of Alameda College of Marin (Kentfield) College of San Mateo Contra Costa College (San Pablo) De Anza College, (Cupertino) Diablo Valley College, (Pleasant Hill) Evergreen Valley College (San Jose) Foothill College (Los Altos Hills) Gavilan College (Gilroy) Laney College (Oakland) Las Positas College (Livermore) Los Medanos College (Pittsburg) Merritt College (Oakland) Mission College (Santa Clara) Napa Valley College (Napa) Ohlone College (Fremont) San Francisco State University San Jose City College San Jose State University Santa Rosa Junior College Sonoma State University (Rohnert Park) Skyline College (San Bruno) Solano Community College (Fairfield) West Valley College, Saratoga University of California, Berkeley University of California, Hastings College of the Law (San Francisco) University of California, San Francisco University of California, Santa Cruz Seminaries American Baptist Seminary of the West The Church Divinity School of the Pacific (Episcopal) Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology Franciscan School of Theology Fuller Northern California Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary Graduate Theological Union Institute of Buddhist Studies Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary (ELCA, Berkeley) Pacific School of Religion (UCC, Disciples & Methodist) Saint Patrick Seminary San Francisco Theological Seminary (Presbyterian) Starr King School for the Ministry (Unitarian Universalist) Zaytuna Institute

Private Stanford University University of San Francisco Santa Clara University Saint Mary's College of California Academy of Art University The Art Institute of California – San Francisco California College of the Arts California Culinary Academy California Institute of Integral Studies Carnegie Mellon Silicon Valley Cogswell Polytechnical College Culinary Institute of America at Greystone DeVry University Dominican University Ex'pression College for Digital Arts Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising Five Branches University Golden Gate University Holy Names University Herguan University Hult International Business School Institute of Transpersonal Psychology International Technological University John F. Kennedy University Lincoln Law School of San Jose Lincoln University (California) Menlo College Mills College Minerva Schools at KGI National Hispanic University New College of California Northwestern Polytechnic University Notre Dame de Namur University Palo Alto University (formerly known as the Pacific Graduate School of Psychology) Pacific Union College Palmer College of Chiropractic West Patten University Presidio School of Management Saint Mary's College of California San Francisco Art Institute San Francisco Conservatory of Music San Francisco Law School Santa Clara University Saybrook Graduate School and Research Center Silicon Valley University Stanford University Touro University California University of Northern California University of Phoenix North Bay Fairfield Campus University of Phoenix San Jose Campus University of San Francisco Silicon Valley Technical Institute Wharton West—Executive MBA Program (University of Pennsylvania)

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