One of our founders, Mother Rosalie Clifton Hill, RCSJ, understood faith as a light which illuminates our search for ultimate meaning and purpose. This was the faith she hoped students would come to discover at the University of San Diego. Her dream is very much alive today.

The faith that animates USD leads us outward, compels us to engage the world in an openhearted way and requires an education that reaches below the surface to examine the very heart of things. In the classroom, around campus and out in the community, while you’re at USD, you will develop an awareness of the needs of others, the most urgent challenges facing our world today and the reality of our interconnectedness.

This spirit of service may take you into our local neighborhood, to downtown San Diego, across the border or to far-flung corners of the world.