Create the life you've imagined with a purposeful, action-oriented, and quality business education of unmatched value in San Francisco.
The Lam Family College of Business at SF State equips you with the latest business knowledge, in-demand skills and engaging experiences to succeed in a global economy and lead the way to a more prosperous and equitable world.
We Are San Francisco’s Public Business College
We offer bachelor’s degree programs in Business Administration, Hospitality and Tourism Management, Economics, and Labor and Employment Studies.
Our Bachelor of Science in Business Administration program offers you 9 different concentrations to choose from, including marketing, management, business analytics (offered starting in fall 2024 semester), accounting, finance, decision sciences, information systems, international business, and general business.
Earn Your Business Degree at a Highly Ranked Institution
Why Business at SF State?
Build the Foundation for a Well-Paying Career
- Accounting
- Data Analytics
- Entrepreneurship
- Finance
- Hospitality and Tourism
- Human Resources
- International Business
- Information Systems
- Management
- Marketing and Advertising
- and more!
Prepare for High-Demand Jobs with Top Employers
- Amazon
- Meta (Facebook)
- Genentech
- Goldman Sachs
- Government
- KPMG
- Microsoft
- Nonprofit Sector
- Salesforce
- and more!
Unlock Your Potential with Supportive Services and Enriching Activities
Choose from a host of extracurricular programs and events designed to help you with career discovery and preparation, leadership development, sharpening hard and soft skills, networking opportunities, and community service, or join one of over 15 business student organizations.
AACSB Distinction
We are among only five percent of all business schools globally that meet the rigorous standards of the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) International, the world’s premier accreditation body for business schools. You can feel secure about the value of our business degree and confident in your ability to succeed in the workforce.
Turn Your Passion into a Purposeful Career: Alyssa’s Story
Alyssa Tran (Marketing, '23) is driven by an enthusiasm for connection in her personal and professional life. Her family's frequent visits to Vietnam while she was a child left a lasting impression on her. Every trip was a quest for her dad to find his long-lost, childhood friends, but he never found them. It wasn't until her dad discovered and reconnected with a mutual friend on Facebook that suddenly, people he hadn't seen in decades were just a friend-request away.
This experience motivated Alyssa to pursue a career in social media marketing, with her belief in social media's ability to bring positive change to people worldwide and to the business world.
Start Your Future at SF State
Rankings footnotes:
1. The Lam Family College of Business at San Francisco State ranked 35th among the 50 Best Colleges for Business Majors in 2020 by Money magazine. Ranking based on “education quality, affordability, and the career payoff for undergraduate business majors.”
2. Based on CollegeNET's 2022 “Social Mobility Index” (SMI) report, which measures the extent of a university's impact in providing opportunities for economically disadvantaged students to graduate into well-paying jobs.
3. Money magazine’s ranking of the 50 Most Transformative Colleges in the USA is based on scoring a college’s graduation rates, student salary after graduation, and student loan debt.
4. Accounting program ranked #5 among public universities for salary outcomes in the Wall Street Journal's (WSJ) 2023 “Best College for Your Dream Career in Accounting” article. (WSJ subscription required to read article)
5. Marketing program ranked #12 among public universities for salary outcomes in the Wall Street Journal's (WSJ) 2023 “Best College for Your Dream Career in Marketing" article. (WSJ subscription required to read article)
6. 25 Best Colleges for a Bachelor’s in Hospitality Management” 2020 rankings by GradReports.