Your Impact in Action
From student scholarships to endowed gifts, the generosity of our benefactors provides opportunity for deserving, hard-working SFSU students determined to earn their degree and make a difference in their communities.
Your Impact Provides Opportunity and Excellence
SFSU’s ranking
Top 5%
for upward mobility and best salaries
The Wall Street Journal’s “Best Colleges in the U.S.”
First-Gen Achievement
32%
of SFSU students are the first in their families to attend college
SFSU’s ranking
#4 in CA
for supporting women’s success
Newsweek’s list of “America’s Best Colleges for Women”
Opening Doors, Changing Lives
Your support creates opportunities for students at a public university who might otherwise feel unseen, unheard or unsupported. Being chosen as a scholarship recipient was a profound affirmation of my self-worth, shifting how I viewed myself and my potential.
Megan Rogers (B.S., Public Health, ’24)
Helping Students Find Their Balance
I believe [receiving scholarships] helped me invest more of my time in learning and giving back to the community. Surely, it takes off a weight off my shoulders and helps me to keep up to where I could stand by myself. Scholarships are very inspiring. To me, they are like the supporting wheels for new bikers. As soon as I learned how to go forward without them, I could hand them over to another student to learn.
Mina Kasirifar (M.A., Design, ’21)