University of
San Francisco
Private College in San Francisco, CA. Six-year graduation rate 70%. Median 10-year earnings $89,812.
Students who entered University of San Francisco reach a median of $89,812 ten years later, which puts this school in the upper band of undergraduate earnings outcomes. 70% graduate within six years, so most students who start here finish here. Median debt at graduation is $23,000, roughly typical for an undergraduate degree. It also moves people — 2.7% of students climb from the bottom fifth of the income distribution to the top.
Earnings: College Scorecard, median ten years after entry across students who received federal aid — completers and non-completers alike.
- ✓ Debt-to-income ratio 0.26 — healthy (below the 0.40 threshold)
- ✓ 3-year loan default 0.0% — below national benchmark
Admissions
62% of applicants get in, so the odds favor most reasonably prepared students. With 24,888 applications received, this is a school operating at national scale. A 6% yield rate is low: the admitted pool is much larger than the entering class. The score bands below rest on the 12% of enrolled first-years who submitted an SAT score — a self-selected group, and not a cutoff.
Test score bands (middle 50% of submitters)
These bands describe the enrolled first-years who submitted a score, not the entering class. Where most students apply test-optional the submitters are a self-selected, higher-scoring group.
| Test | 25th–75th percentile | Submitted |
|---|---|---|
| SAT Evidence-Based Reading | 610–700 | 114 (12%) |
| SAT Math | 580–690 | |
| ACT Composite | 25–30 | 24 (3%) |
IPEDS Admissions · 2024
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Six-year completion runs to 70% — students who start here overwhelmingly finish here. First-year retention of 84% shows the cohort holds together through the hardest year. Retention and graduation track closely, so most of the attrition shows up in the first year rather than after it. 20% transfer out. IPEDS does not follow them, so whether they finished elsewhere is not recorded either way. A 11:1 ratio points to small classes and accessible faculty.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 5,697 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Average net price — what students actually pay after grant aid — is $45,443 a year, at the high end of undergraduate cost. The income table below is the number that matters — $31,537 at $0–30k versus $52,497 at $110k+. Grant aid is widespread — 91% of students receive it, averaging $30,843. 47% of students take federal loans, a middling borrowing rate.
Entering first-year students
A different, smaller group than the rates above: full-time students in their first year of college anywhere. The grant series here also excludes the "other sources" counted in the all-undergraduate figure, so the two are not comparable.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · 1,122 students
Net price by family income
The same students as the headline above, limited to those who received Title IV federal aid — a narrower group, with a lower overall average. IPEDS publishes no combined figure across these bands, so they should not be averaged into one.
| Family income band | Average net price |
|---|---|
| $0–30k | $31,537 |
| $30–48k | $33,207 |
| $48–75k | $34,315 |
| $75–110k | $38,933 |
| $110k+ | $52,497 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 2,689 of these 5,697 students, totalling $17,933,603 — an average of $6,669 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (San Francisco County) — budget these against any cost-of-attendance housing estimate.
HUD Fair Market Rents (40th-percentile gross rent incl. utilities) · FY2026
Veterans & GI Bill
VA GI Bill Comparison Tool (Veterans Affairs GIDS)