旧金山大学旧金山大学也被简称USF。
旧金山大学是一间位于美国加利福尼亚州旧金山市的私立天主教大学。
成立于1855年，[1] 旧金山大学是第一所在旧金山成立的大学。
它也是加利福尼亚州第三古老的高等院校和第十古老的天主教大学，是美国第八大天主教大学。
旧金山大学的主校区占地50英亩（20公顷），坐落在金门大桥和金门公园之间。
旧金山大学有一个很合适的绰号叫“山顶”，因为校园位于旧金山的主要山丘之一的顶峰。
此外，该大学在四个北部加利福尼亚分校提供课程（萨克拉门托，圣何塞，圣罗萨和普莱森顿），位于南加利福尼亚的一个分校区，并在三藩市中心的位置，包括霍华德街101号的福尔杰的要塞建筑。
旧金山大学的校训是“为了城市和大学”，校训反映了旧金山大学与旧金山县市的历史联系。
旧金山大学的天主教身份象征植根于耶稣会创始人圣依纳爵•罗耀拉。
在1855年，它由意大利耶稣会士安东尼•马修牧师、约瑟夫•比波牧师、迈克尔•阿考迪牧师三人共同创建，位于旧金山市场街，后来成为旧金山市场中心的建筑物。
1859年4月30日，加利福尼亚州州长约翰•B•韦勒签署政府文件，正是命名为“圣依纳爵书院”。
原有课程包括希腊语，西班牙语，拉丁语，英语，法语，意大利语，代数，算术，历史，地理，演讲，和会计。
马卡斯神父是学校的第一任校长，同时也是一名教授、财务主管和牧师。
新校址建于1862年替代了原本的建筑。
在1863年6月，旧金山大学第一个学位艺术硕士学位颁发给学生。
1880年，学校从主要街道搬迁到海因斯街和范尼斯大道的角落这个新地址（目前由戴维斯交响乐大厅占据）。
第三圣依纳爵学院在1906在旧金山地震获得中等破坏，但在随后的大火完全烧毁。
校园西迁，向海因斯和施雷德街道角落，接近金门公园，在接下来的21年，在这个地方它占据了匆忙构建的被称为衬衫厂的建筑物（对时代的类似制造建筑相似）1927年，学校搬迁到山区的南坡。
该学院是建立在前者的共济会的墓园选址。
在1901，该市颁布了一项法令禁止在三藩市、县更多的葬礼。
这些残留物被转移到柯玛，加利福尼亚，然而，每当主校园新建筑开挖地基时，棺材和人类遗骸仍然被发现。
在1930年，为了庆祝第60周年，学校正式命名为“旧金山大学”。
从学校到大学的变化是由许多校友团体和历史悠久的的旧金山市长杰姆斯罗尔夫Jr.历史上大多数学校只有男性，虽然女人开始参加晚会的节目和商业法早在1927，但是在1964年，旧金山大学正式男女同校。
1969年，旧金山大学的高中部独立分出，搬迁到旧金山西部，成为圣依纳爵预科大学。
在1978年，大学获得了孤独的山学院。
耶稣会大学有时邀请批评指责支持是与天主教教义的可能性的看法的演讲者在2004年，艾伦主教亨利维涅龙奥克兰教区的禁止天主教语音报印刷广告研讨会“成像未来教会”，这是由一群教友呼吁教会发起的改革。
同样在2004年，红衣主教纽曼抗议市长加文纽瑟姆的大学的选择对于商学院每年毕业典礼的演讲者，对于他在堕胎和同性恋权利的观点。
在2005年10月，旧金山大学成立150周年。
在2014年秋天，旧金山大学招收10701名本科生和研究生并安置在四个学院（法律，管理，教育，护理和健康专业）和一个学院（艺术与科学）目前，旧金山大学有8772名学生和506教职员工教学楼:•科威尔楼•哈尼科学中心•卡尔曼罗维茨楼•法学院•孤独山校区主楼•麦克拉伦会议中心•教育学院•大学中心•科学与创新中心The University of San FranciscoThe University of San Francisco is also brief called USF.The University of San Francisco is a Jesuit Catholic university located in San Francisco, California, United States.Founded in 1855, [1] USF was established as the first university in San Francisco. It is the third oldest institution for higher learning in California, the tenth-oldest university of the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities, and the eighth largest Jesuit university in the United States.The school's main campus is located on a 50-acre (22 ha) setting between the Golden Gate Bridge and Golden Gate .The main campus is nicknamed the "The Hilltop", and part of the main campus is located on Lone Mountain, one of San Francisco's major hills.In addition, the university offers classes at four Northern California branch campuses (Sacramento, San Jose, Santa Rosa, and Pleasanton), at a Southern California branch campus, and at locations in downtown San Francisco, including the Folger Building at 101 Howard Street, and at the Presidio.Its close historical ties with the City and County of San Francisco are reflected in the University's traditional motto, For the City and University.USF's Jesuit-Roman Catholic identity is rooted in the vision and work of St.Ignatius of Loyola, the founder of the Jesuit order.Founded in 1855 as St.Ignatius Academy by the Italian Jesuit Rev. Anthony Maraschi，and USF started as a one-room schoolhouse along Market Street in what later became downtown San Francisco.St. Ignatius Academy received its charter on April 30, 1859, from the State of California and signed by governor John B. Weller and changed its name to St. Ignatius College.The original curriculum included Greek, Spanish, Latin, English, French, Italian, algebra, arithmetic, history, geography, elocution, and bookkeeping.Father Maraschi was not only the college's first president, but also a professor, the college's treasurer, and first pastor of St. Ignatius Church.A new building was constructed in 1862 to replace the first frame building.In June 1863, the university awarded its first Bachelor of Arts degree. In 1880, the college moved from Market Street to a new site on the corner of Hayes Street and Van Ness Avenue (currently occupied by the Davies Symphony Hall).The third St. Ignatius College received moderate damage in the1906 San Francisco earthquake, but was completely destroyed in the ensuing fire.The campus moved west, to the corner of Hayes and Shrader Streets, close to Golden Gate Park, where it occupied a hastily constructed structure known as The Shirt Factory (for its resemblance to similar manufacturing buildings of the era) for the next 21 years.The college moved to its present site on Fulton Street in 1927.The college was built on the site of the former Masonic Cemetery.In 1901, the city enacted a law prohibiting more burials in the City and County of San Francisco.The remains were supposed to be transferred to Colma, California, however, caskets and human remains are still found whenever a foundation is excavated for a new building on the main campus.To celebrate its diamond jubilee in 1930, St. Ignatius College changed its name to the University of San Fr ancisco.The change from college to university was sought by many alumni groups and by long-time San Francisco Mayor James Rolph Jr..A male-only school for most of its history, USF became fully coeducational in 1964, though females started attending the evening programs in business and law as early as 1927.In 1969, the high school division, already wholly separate from the university, moved to the western part of San Francisco and became St. Ignatius College Preparatory.In 1978, the university acquired Lone Mountain CollegeThe Jesuit university sometimes invites speakers who critics accuse of espousing views that are at odds with Catholic doctrine.In 2004, Bishop Allen Henry Vigneron of the Diocese of Oakland forbade the Catholic V oice newspaper to print an advertisement for a seminar called "Imaging the Future Church", which was sponsored by a group of Catholic lay people calling for church reforms.Also in 2004, the Cardinal Newman Society protested the university's selection of Mayor Gavin Newsom as speaker for the business annual commencement ceremony, for his views on abortion and gay-rights.October 15, 2005 marked the 150th anniversary of the university's founding.As of the fall of 2014, USF enrolled 10,701 undergraduate and graduate students in all of its programs housed in four schools (Law, Management, Education, Nursing and Health Professions) and one college (Arts and Science).At present, University of San Francisco have 8772 students and 506 faculty and staff。