San Diego Information for Job Candidates
and New Faculty

Please check the links below for information on living in San Diego. We hope these are useful.*

See our USD Information page for information on faculty life at USD.

San Diego General

Demographics and Other Data (SANDAG)
San Diego (Wikipedia)
San Diego Magazine
San Diego Community Profiles (SignOnSanDiego.com)
San Diego Neighborhoods Map (City of San Diego)
San Diego Convention and Visitors Bureau
SignOnSanDiego.com (Union Tribune)
Weather for San Diego (Weather Channel)
San Diego Climate (rssWeather.com)
Best Places (Forbes.com)
Best Places to Live (CNN Money)
7th in Best Cities for Singles (Forbes.com)

Housing

Home Prices Forecast to Slide for 2 More Years (10/2/08, Union Tribune)
Home Prices Continue Downward Spiral (6/17/08, Union Tribune)
Median Price Keeps Falling (4/16/08, Union Tribune)
Voice of San Diego: Housing (voiceofsandiego.org)
Housing Prices Down 13.1% (1/14/08, Union Tribune)
Median Home Price Plummets in SD County (1/15/08, Union Tribune)
South, East County Hardest Hit (1/15/08, voiceofsandiego.org )
2007: The Year in Housing (12/31/07, voiceofsandiego.org)

Renting Makes More Sense Than Home Ownership (Yahoo!)

AcademicHomes.com (rentals, exchanges, etc.)
Home Prices Across the Nation (NY Times)
Housing Prices in San Diego (SD Housing Commission)
Off-Campus Housing (USD Residential Life)
Renting in San Diego (San Diego Magazine)
Is It Better to Buy or Rent? (NY Times)
SDHomes (San Diego Union Tribune)

Cost of Living/Economy

Cost of Living Calculator (CNN Money)
Cost of Living Wizard (NY Times)
Chronicle Salary Calclulator (Chronicle of Higher Ed.)
AAUP Faculty Salary Survey (Chronicle of Higher Ed.)
USD Index of Leading Economic Indicators (USD School of Business)

Schools

The Bishop's School
Catholic Schools (K-12) in the Diocese of San Diego
Ed-Data (Education Data Partnership)
Episcopal Schools in San Diego (Episcopal Diocese of SD [scroll down])
Francis Parker School
Great Schools (San Diego Magazine)
Great Schools: San Diego
Montessori Foundation
Montessori School Accreditation Commission
International Montessori Index
Newsweek Ranks San Diego High Schools
La Jolla Country Day School
Poway Unified School District
San Diego Unified School District
San Diego County Office of Education

*Neither USD nor the department endorse or recommend any commercial interests represented on these sites.