About Holy Names College Holy Names College has offered a broad and challenging education to a diverse student body for over one hundred and thirty years.
Classes are small, enabling students and faculty to work closely together in the learning process.
The faculty is passionate about scholarship, and, more importantly, passionate about making sure students don't just hear what they say-that they learn and grow from it beyond the classroom. The student body at HNC reflects the ethnically diverse Bay Area. In the classroom and in extracurricular activities, students of diverse nationalities and cultures learn what it means to be a citizen of the world. No one nationality or ethnic culture claims a majority at Holy Names. For the past two years, U.S. News and World Report has ranked Holy Names number three in ethnic diversity among all western colleges and universities.