Student Success and Graduation
SFSU: Empowering Dreams, Transforming Futures
As an SFSU student, you represent the promise of a better tomorrow, a culture of possibility and a diversity of ideas. Against any odds we dedicate our energy to help make your dreams come true.
Leveraging our location in the heart of San Francisco, Biotech Bay and Silicon Valley, we are originators and leaders in diversity, equity and community inclusion. We empower you to achievement, realizing the power of education for all.
Points of Pride
A top school in the nation for social mobility
—U.S. News & World Report
#19
Affordable Colleges with High R.O.I.
—MSN.com
30%
of students are first-generation
—SFSU Institutional Research
Student Services and Support
A Diverse and Inclusive Campus
We fuel and support our diverse students’ pursuits to make a positive impact in their communities and on the world.
Academic Advising
Get help with choosing a major, degree planning, class registration, strategies for academic success and more.
From Our Students
The academic rigor is balanced by the support of the professors. If you dedicate yourself to speaking with more of your mentors and more of your professors here at State, everyone’s working together and cheering each other on.
Alyssa Gimenez
M.S., Biology, ’22