San Francisco Campus: Locale & Amenities

The San Francisco Bay Area, home to about six million people, is famed for lifestyles and cultural amenities that equal the most cosmopolitan areas of the US and Europe. Vibrant and diverse, its industries range from the technology of Silicon Valley's technology to the haute cuisine of Sonoma and wine country. Powered by tourism, finance, legal services, advertising and design, and education, the economy offers students opportunities to work in fields that complement their studies. Home to strong African-American, Latino, Southeast Asian, South Asian, Russian, African, and East Asian communities, the City of San Francisco is known worldwide as a center of gay and lesbian culture. A major cultural center, San Francisco offers ballet, modern dance and live theater (Sam Shepherd got his start just down the road.) Film buffs can enjoy both a gay and lesbian and an international film festival, plus two of the nation's rare, remaining gilt movie palaces: the Paramount in Oakland and the Castro Theater in San Francisco. Jazz clubs, salsa dancing and a night club scene beckon to lovers of nightlife. Professional sports are well-represented with major league baseball and football teams, as well as many other national sports franchises.

Cultural Links American Conservatory Theatre Asian Art Museum California Academy of Sciences Cartoon Art Museum deYoung Art Museum Legion of Honor Art Museum Mexican Museum Old First Concerts San Francisco Ballet Gay Men's Chorus Museum of Modern Art (SF MOMA)  San Francisco Opera San Francisco Symphony

Above: Coit Tower behind Alliant Campus building.

Sports & Activities San Francisco 49ers San Francisco Giants San Jose Sharks Yerba Buena Gardens Neighborhood Links Neighborhood video tour Edibles Hotels Pier 39 Fisherman’s Wharf Teatro Zinzanni The Magic Theatre

The Bay Area also offers unlimited participatory sports: fishing, surfing, windsailing, kayaking, white-water rafting, sailing, hiking and mountain biking. The Sierras, about four hours away, offer world-class ski resorts.

Nature lovers have an abundance to explore, from the sombre solitude of giant redwood groves to numerous ocean beaches and Bay wetlands. The Bay Area's most encompassing appeal is simply its ubiquitous beauty: sparkling water leading the distant Marin Headlands, the East Bay hills alight with the setting sun, a cottony bank of fog heaving in slow motion over Twin Peaks, steep hillsides ablaze with golden poppies and sighing eucalyptis trees.