<p>I am from the midwest and don't know much of the west coast. However, I'm very interested in any colleges in or around San Francisco, if anyone would like to lend me a hand.</p>
<p>Sadly, San Francisco doesn't have much - UCSF is mainly a graduate medical school, I think. Stanford and Berkeley are in the area, and isn't College of the Pacific as well?</p>
<p>Bay Area Colleges & Universities:
<a href="http://www.abag.ca.gov/abag/local_gov/univ.html%5B/url%5D">http://www.abag.ca.gov/abag/local_gov/univ.html</a></p>
<p>Alameda County</p>
<p>University of California at Berkeley
California State University, Hayward
California College of Arts and Crafts
California School of Professional Psychology
Chabot College
Holy Names College
Las Positas College
Ohlone College
Peralta Colleges (Alameda, Laney, Merritt, and Vista)
Mills College
Samuel Merritt College
Wright Institute
Graduate Theological Union
Platt College
Lincoln University </p>
<p>Contra Costa County</p>
<p>Contra Costa Community College
Diablo Valley College
John F. Kennedy University
St. Mary's College
CSU, Hayward Contra Costa Campus
American School of Professional Psychology, San Francisco Bay Area Campus </p>
<p>Marin County</p>
<p>College of Marin
Dominican College </p>
<p>Napa County</p>
<p>Napa Valley College
Pacific Union College </p>
<p>San Francisco</p>
<p>Academy of Art College
Brandon College
California Institute of Integral Studies
City College of San Francisco
Golden Gate University
New College of California
Heald College
San Francisco Conservatory of Music
San Francisco Institute of Architecture and Ecological Design
San Francisco State University
University of California, Hastings College of the Law
University of California at San Francisco
University of San Francisco
University of the Pacific, School of Dentisry
California College of Arts and Crafts
The Art Institute of California - San Francisco </p>
<p>San Mateo County</p>
<p>Canada Community College
College of Notre Dame
College of San Mateo
San Mateo County Community College District (Canada,College of San Mateo,Skyline)
Skyline Community College </p>
<p>Santa Clara County</p>
<p>Cogswell Polytech College
Evergreen Valley College
Foothill-De Anza Colleges
International Technological University
Menlo College
Mission College
National Hispanic University
Northwestern Polytechnic University
Pacific Graduate School of Psychology
San Jose Christian College
San Jose City College
San Jose State University
Santa Clara University
Silicon Valley College
Stanford University
West Valley-Mission Community College District
Gavilan College </p>
<p>Solano County</p>
<p>California Maritime Academy
Solano Community College </p>
<p>Sonoma County</p>
<p>Empire College
Santa Rosa Junior College
Sonoma State University </p>
<p>Also of interest:</p>
<p>Center for Information Security: Regional Training Institute </p>
<p>Colleges and Universities Beyond the Bay Area</p>
<p>California Community Colleges Chancellor's Office (list of colleges)
California Postsecondary Education Commission (guide to public colleges and universities)
Cal State Monterey Bay
University of California, Office of the President
University of California, Santa Cruz
University of the Pacific (Stockton, CA) </p>
<p>Peterson's Education Center
U.S. Universities and Community Colleges (list maintained by the University of Texas)
Universities Worldwide</p>
<p>I live in San Francisco, and I can tell you that there are not that many great colleges around here. There is UC Berkeley, UC Santa Cruz(two hours drive) USF, SUSF(state) Stanford, Santa Clara, and a bunch of smaller ones. I havent even heard of most of the schools on that list. But many are community colleges, even some of the ones that dont have community college in their names.</p>
<p>Stanford and Berkeley tend to overshadow the smaller bay area colleges like USF, St. Mary's, Mills, Dominican, etc.</p>
<p>I thought about editing out the community colleges on that list, but didn't feel like taking the time.</p>
<p>One does not have to go to school in S.F. in order to enjoy the bay area, but be forewarned that many bay area colleges are more commuter schools than residential, and weekends may get a bit lonely on campus!</p>
<p>Wow, I am extremely grateful for all of the responses!! Thank you all so much for taking the time to help me.</p>
<p>The Bay area and San Francisco are two different things. I.e. Oakland, Berkeley, Marin County etc are different culturally from San Francisco proper. Just like Manhattan has little in common with its immediate suburbs (or even the rest of NYC).</p>
<p>The point is, the only [undergraduate] college of note in San Francisco proper is USF.</p>