The University of San Francisco: School of Management

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Welcome

From whatever perspective you approach the University of San Francisco School of Management you will discover exceptional programs, faculty and staff.

Meet the School of Management Leadership Team

These are our core values:

We are Academically Rigorous
Undergraduate contests: a chance to compete nationally:
Sales Competition
The Russ Berrie Institute National Sales Competition
USF student Vanessa Cruz won 4th place overall in the Sales Role Play competition.

Ethics competition
Annual National Intercollegiate Business Ethics Competition:

USF was a final round Divisional Champion in 2008
In addition to class work, and academic competitions, our students participate in extensive experiential learning opportunities:
Our Academic Global Immersion Programs

Gives students the opportunity to travel internationally, and meet face-to-face with business leaders, finance ministers, local government officials, and academic professionals — from South America, across Europe, to Turkey and Dubai.

Our International Business Plan Competition

Allows our students to engage with international teams of their peers, to be judged by industry leaders, and to be seen by up to 50 venture capitalists as they test their business plans, and pitch them to people who can help make those plans real.

Last spring the ETS Major Field Test for the Bachelor’s Degree in Business was administered at the School of Management to measure the critical knowledge and understanding obtained by students in our undergraduate business program.

The average overall score of Management students who took this exam is at the top 30% of senior-level business students from 600 domestic institutions who are included in the comparisons.

We are a Jesuit Culture
Service Learning — for all of our students — is a USF requirement. Management students lend their knowledge in practical ways to a variety of non-profit organizations to improve their operations and further their development.

At USF we believe in education for the whole person — not factual knowledge only, but personal development for leadership and service.

At La Cocina , for example — an incubator for entrepreneurs in the food industry — our students work with women who are taking the first steps toward their own businesses, and thereby to prosperity for themselves and their families. tabletop

We are Global

jMGEM
The Joint Master’s In Global Entrepreneurship Management gives students the unique opportunity to study at three Jesuit campuses on three continents — at IQS in Barcelona, at Fu Jen in Taipei, and here at the University of San Francisco. After one intense year, they are awarded degrees from each university.

GLOBAL IMMERSIONS
Through Global Immersion Programs, our students travel the world — throughout South America across Europe to Turkey and Dubai —

learning business and social culture directly from a nation’s leading entrepreneurs, national government leaders, finance ministers, local Chambers of Commerce and local mayors.

We are Diverse

25.6% of our undergraduate students are international in origin.
Our most recent MBA cohort consists of students from 20 countries, speaking 36 native languages.
Our faculty is diverse, and multilingual. Six full-time faculty members are native Mandarin speakers. We also have faculty who are native speakers of Spanish, Turkish, Arabic, German, Russian, Gaelic, and other languages.

We are in and of San Francisco
This is perhaps the best place on earth to be a student of management.

San Francisco, Northern California and the Silicon Valley is the most intense business ecosystem in the world. It is home to high tech, biotech, venture capital and entrepreneurial leaders. It is becoming home to globalized Chinese businesses. And for Hospitality Industry Management studies, it is unparalleled. And we are here.

Our faculty has both academic renown and corporate experience — in start-ups, as well as global companies.

Our Silicon Valley Immersion Programs bring students, entrepreneurs and business people from across the globe to learn both the academic fundamentals of contemporary entrepreneurship and innovation as well as hard-earned business experience and insights directly from leading professionals.