University of St. Francis (USF) is a private and comprehensive university located in Joliet, Illinois. USF’s main campus is located 35 miles
southwest of Chicago in Joliet, Illinois. The campus is situated in the historic Cathedral Area on the west side of the city. Joliet is easily accessible by major interstates (I-55 & I-80), by rail and by air through Chicago’s Midway and O’Hare Airports.
Nationally Ranked
It’s one thing when a school tells everyone how wonderful they are, but it’s something else when professional groups and publishers across the country speak so highly. We’re happy that so many people think so highly of USF. Quality can be seen in the huge number of USF graduates that earn jobs within six months of graduation. It can be found in our national accreditations for our Business, Education, Nursing, and Arts & Sciences colleges. And it can be found in the stories our alumni tell about what our degree programs meant to them.
Maybe it’s best put simply: The University of St. Francis is consistently ranked among the best when it comes to quality education, affordability, and accessibility.
USF appeared on Money Magazine’s “2017 Best Colleges for Your Money” list as the #1 private master’s institution in Illinois.
The Princeton Review has ranked USF on its annual “Best Regional Colleges” list for ten consecutive years, beginning in 2008.
U.S. News & World Report has placed USF on several of its annual listings year after year since 2008. USF appears on the “Best Regional Universities,” “Best Value Schools” and “Best Online Programs” lists where five separate programs appear.
Colleges of Distinction has placed USF on its Illinois and Catholic lists since 2011.
For 2017-18, USF also received designations for the colleges of business, education, and nursing.
CollegeConsensus.com placed USF on the top ten “2017-18 Best Colleges in Illinois” list.
USF was ranked among some of the major research institutions in the state.
The Leach College of Nursing at USF was named #2 in the nation on BestColleges.com’s list
of “Best Online Master’s for Nursing Administration” in 2017.
Affordablecolleges.com ranked USF’s online healthcare management master’s degree #24
on its 2017 “Top Online Health Administration Programs” list,
citing that the program was designed to reflect current trends and issues facing the health and business world.
Master’s Program Guide placed the M.S. in Education-Reading Specialist program at USF among its
top 50 colleges and universities offering online master’s degrees in education for 2017.
The 2017 “Best 4 Year Colleges in Illinois” list by Schools.com placed USF among the top ten best colleges and universities in the state.
Learn How to Become ranked USF 7th on its 2017 list of “Best 4-Year Colleges in Illinois.” The list was calculated using important factors like tuition cost, alumni earnings, financial aid availability, student-to-teacher ratio, graduation rate and more.
In its 2016 national ranking of U.S. nursing schools, nursingschoolsalmanac.com ranks USF’s Leach College of Nursing in three separate listings, including #10 overall in the Great Lakes region, #31 among private nursing schools and as the #63 nursing school in the country.
Eduventures named the University of St. Francis among the Top 20 National Private Masters Institutions in the U.S. in 2016.
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USF is located in Joliet, IL and known as the "Crossroads of Mid-America."
Joliet is
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the 3rd largest city in Illinois by population
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the home for North America's largest inland port served by Union Pacific and BNSF flight service
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35 miles southwest from Chicago
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25 miles from Midway airport
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45 miles from O'Hare International Airport
USF China News
Enrollment: 2019-2023
University of St. Francis and Sichuan University of Science and Engineering (SUSE) have been approved by Chinese Ministry of Education to offer joint undergraduate program at SUSE starting in 2019.