USF Makes Princeton Review’s 2027 Top Colleges List
In Princeton Review’s The Best 392 Colleges: 2027 Edition, published Aug. 18, USF rates as a top university in the United States. It also ranks among the “Best in the West.”
According to the book’s editors, the 392 colleges and universities on the list represent the top 15 percent of the country’s four-year colleges. The Princeton Review surveyed current USF students and reported what they said about academics, campus life, and student life.
On academics: USF offers a “diverse education in an even more diverse setting.” The “extremely talented, well-educated, hardworking, and passionate professors” lead “interesting, engaging classes that are small.” In class, students “discuss, ask questions, and give feedback. . . . It was not the professor’s classroom, where the professor was controlling the classroom. It was our classroom, all of us together.”
On campus life: The USF campus is a “welcoming second home for all of its students,” in a “beautiful location” that makes it easy to explore “the ultimate city to be in as a young person.” USF “students very often go off campus to visit tourist attractions, go hiking, explore new food places” and enjoy “concerts and trips to museums, shows, and performances.”
On student life: At USF, students come together “in one of the best cities in the world” to form “a culturally diverse community that teaches respect, dignity, and honor for all individuals.” They “come from all over the world” as well as from many “different cultural backgrounds and hobbies and interests.” Students “may be working for an NGO or volunteering at one of the many nonprofits in San Francisco.” They “care about the community and the world beyond themselves.”