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Despite its limited geographical space, San Francisco, California is home to a multitude of colleges and universities.

Public colleges and universities include:

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  City College of San Francisco, one of the largest community colleges in the country; in Ingleside, with several extension campuses


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  San Francisco State University, in the southwest corner of the city near Lake Merced
  


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  University of California, Hastings College of the Law, located downtown at its Civic Center
  


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  University of California, San Francisco, primarily a graduate level health-sciences school, located in the Parnassus Heights/Inner Sunset neighborhood and in Mission Bay, San Francisco, California.

Private colleges and universities:

• Academy of Art University


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  Alliant International University, formerly California School of Professional Psychology
  


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  Art Institute of California - San Francisco, a private campus which focuses on video game and design-based education (interior, fashion etc.)


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  Arthur A. Dugoni School of Dentistry, part of the University of the Pacific
  


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  California College of the Arts, an Oakland-based school


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  California Institute of Integral Studies, in downtown San Francisco


• DeVry University


• The Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising (FIDM)


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  Golden Gate University, a private, nonsectarian, coeducational university located in the Financial District of Downtown San Francisco


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  Heald College, in the Financial District


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  Hult International Business School (formerly known as the Arthur D. Little School of Management), on the San Francisco waterfront and across from the headquarters of Levi Strauss & Co.
  


• Minerva Schools at KGI


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  New College of California, now defunct, was located in the Mission District
  


• Presidio Graduate School


• San Francisco Art Institute


• San Francisco Conservatory of Music


• San Francisco Law School


• San Francisco School of Digital Filmmaking


• Saybrook University


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  University of San Francisco, Jesuit-run; located on Lone Mountain
  


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  Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, in the Financial District

See also[edit]

• List of colleges and universities in California