Graduate Programs

In the world's biotech hub, combine research with business in topics ranging from business development to ethical manufacturing.

A full-time MBA degree program that offers an experience-based curriculum that draws on the entrepreneurial spirit and innovation of the SF Bay Area.

Deepen your leadership competencies, refine your business skills, and broaden your experience in solving global business issues with an EMBA from USF.

Prepare to lead in Catholic elementary and secondary schools and in diocesan positions. 

Acquire the knowledge and tools needed to become a leader in Catholic education. Explore instruction, multicultural education, leadership, and educational tech.

 Use technology to increase student engagement, motivation, and learning. 

Explore cultures and social movements. Do internships and fieldwork. Tackle local issues on a global scale. Seek justice for all.

Combine a rigorous academic curriculum with practicum experiences in various areas of student life. Address equity and inspire change in higher education. 

Learn about human rights and educational justice in the classroom and community. Prepare to tackle inequities of race, class, gender, sexual identity, religion, and nation.

The program equips students with a strong grounding in legal theory and practical skills to pursue gainful employment in the intellectual property field in the U.S. and abroad.

Understand education within diverse sociocultural, linguistic, political, and economic contexts. Acquire skills you need in scholarship, teaching, and advocacy.

Turn your professional interests into applied research problems. Study learning theory, research methods, assessment, and curriculum and learning environments.

The Master of Laws (LLM) program is your gateway to a thriving career in law.

Learn policy and practice. Do internships and fieldwork. Seek justice for migrants.

Prepare for leadership positions in artistic, cultural, and heritage organizations that operate in a constantly changing social dynamic.

Transform your organization through a learning perspective. Lead your school, agency, department, or nonprofit through justice, service, and participation.

Hone your language. Develop your design. Acquire the knowledge and techniques you need to be a communication specialist in a range of fields.

Argue in moot court, find an externship, work in a law clinic, clerk for a judge. Learn from legal scholars who consider your success a victory.

Think and act beyond the classroom. Engage your whole self. Advocate for health equity and social justice. Prepare to be a public health leader in local and global communities.

Learn to succeed in public office, congress, campaigns, advocacy, and civic leadership. A hybrid curriculum combines online learning with weekend seminars.

Prepare for public leadership. Transform learning into actions that serve our communities. Bring social innovation to the halls of government as well as to corporate boardrooms.

Prepare for a career in special education. Train as a paid intern teacher in a Bay Area school.

The program is conveniently located at USF’s Downtown Campus, in the heart of San Francisco’s financial district, so that working professionals can easily participate in the program. Both full- and part-time options are offered. 

Master of Legal Studies in Taxation (MLST) students attend courses alongside the LLM in Taxation students taught by USF's preeminent scholars, enriching the learning and teaching environment for students in both programs.

Understand formal and informal education within its sociocultural, linguistic, and political contexts around the world.

Earn a degree built on equity, social justice, and human rights. 

The Master of Arts in Teaching Reading/Reading and Literacy Added Authorization (RLAA; formerly CA Reading Certificate)

Teachers learn to design curriculum that embodies their educational values and provides all students access to powerful learning opportunities.

Join the Bay Area's dynamic culture of grassroots organizing and advocacy. Develop community-driven public policy for more equitable cities and regions. Prepare for leadership roles in community organizing, public service, and political advocacy.

Join our community. Raise your voice. Write with your heart. Write for justice.