Seven Hills Conference Center

I am writing this review as a participant, not as an event organizer. My experience is based on the events I attended, which consisted of 2 graduations — a previous class (as I was a scholarship recipient) and my own graduation a semester later.
To get to the conference center is a bit tricky especially as it’s really far from the main campus. Your best bet is to look at the campus maps for directions and wear some comfortable walking shoes.
Every semester my program holds graduation at this venue. With max seating of 300 people, it was able to host the graduating class, their guests (up to 3), education coordinators as well as faculty and staff. Everyone is seated in round tables that could sit around 10 people each and even with the tables there was enough room to move about.
Food was decent both times I went — comparable to hotel banquet food. I remember that the previous graduating class had fajitas as this was requested by the class. Beef and chicken fajitas were served along with standard fajita sides such as avocado, guacamole and sour cream. In true NorCal fashion it was served with rice and beans. Chocolate cake was slightly moist. For my graduation we had more standard hotel banquet food, which consisted of overcooked vegetables, very overcooked tortellini and flavorful yet slightly soggy chicken breast marsala. At least I got full off the salad bar and the No1DP treated our group to better food afterwards. Only refreshments served are water and tea.
NB: Upon further research (
) it looks like the graduation ceremonies are served one of three theme buffets — previous class got served Mission District and my class got served North Beach. Wonder if the class after me will get the Chinatown theme.

This place is a great venue for any major event you may want to hold/​host. Meeting rooms and food all in one location. In the summer, they run the summer camp/​conference housing process for the campus. It’s a great deal for any major summer event, as the rooms run roughly $ 40 per person per night. A STEAL for this neighborhood and this city!

In college I was President of the Marketing Association, the only student organization specifically for the #2 largest major within the College of Business. Every year the club was faced with finding an inexpensive graduation venue, where we don’t have to supply our own chairs, stage, AV equipment, handle external catering, etc. since we were all busy students with jobs, internships and homework to handle. Other student orgs opted for a gym or a hotel ballroom, we built a relationship with the on-​campus Seven Hills Conference Center that has always been patient with our club in planning the event. Dustin Fabian is great and helped us start to finish, and the catering manager is helpful too.
After being offered HALF OFF, we were able to pass the savings along to our graduates by way of cheaper event tickets, giftbags and hiring a professional photographer. It really was a great event that would have been way more stressful if the event was not on campus and we didn’t have a venue staff that was always attentive and responsive.
This is a great, relatively inexpensive venue to rent for meetings or small events (with conjoined meeting rooms with collapsible doors) for up to around 400. It’s just feet away from the SFSU parking garage on State Drive.

SFSU GEM!!! Meeting Planners, Educators take note.
Meeting and Conference FacilitiesSeven Hills
The Seven Hills Conference Center can offer meeting space for small groups of 15, or host larger sessions of up to 300 participants. Banquets, workshops or intimate meetings are all possible in Seven Hills. The private formal setting of this building creates an elegant backdrop for dinners, receptions or seminars. All meeting rooms are wired with telephone and data lines as well as comfortable seating.
Please take a look at our Seven Hills Conference Center layout for detailed information regarding separate meeting rooms and capacities available in PDF, which requires free Acrobat Reader.
Limited audio visual equipment is included in your facility rental fee. Televisions, VCR’s, overhead projectors, slide projectors and easels are all available upon request at no additional cost. Simply let us know the equipment you will need, and one of our Conference Associates will bring it to you. Usage fees do apply for technically advanced equipment. Please ask for certain rental restrictions when requesting these machines.