The University of San Diego is a Catholic university in San Diego, California. USD (also an abbreviation used by the University of South Dakota) offers over sixty undergraduate, master's and doctoral degrees. The university consists of six schools: the School of Business Administration, School of Leadership and Education Sciences, the Faculty of Law, School of Nursing and Health Sciences, the College of Arts and Sciences, and the Joan B. Kroc School of Peace Studies. Chartered in 1949, the University opened its doors to its first class of students in 1952 as the College of San Diego for women. Bishop Charles F. Buddy, DD, then bishop of the Diocese of San Diego and Reverend Mother Rosalie Hill RSCJ, a Vicar Superior of the Society of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, the charter of the institution from resources drawn from their respective organizations in a band land known as "Alcalá Park, named San Diego de Alcala.In September 1954, the College of San Diego for men and the law school opened. These two schools originally occupied Bug Hall on the site of the University High School, which later became the home of the University of San Diego High
