Watch out, Harvard alums.

Yale University, the New Haven, Connecticut, institution with a $44 billion endowment, is considering establishing a campus in San Francisco, The Standard has learned.

School officials and Mayor Daniel Lurie’s administration have been in talks since at least December over the Ivy League university’s expansion, according to emails obtained via a public records request.

While the type of campus Yale is pursuing is not immediately clear, the correspondence shows that the university’s plans are being spearheaded by Jeff Brock, the dean of Yale Engineering.

The emails also show that other universities are looking to expand their campuses to the city, though it isn’t clear which ones.

If Yale establishes a satellite school in San Francisco, it will mark the second university Lurie has lured to the city in recent months.

In January, Vanderbilt University announced that it is taking over the century-old California College of the Arts campus in the Design District. The move came after CCA had been struggling financially for years, despite emergency injections of funding from the likes of Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia.

In March, Lurie announced the launch of Third Coast Foundry, a workspace in the South Park neighborhood for students and researchers at eight Midwestern universities. The space will be open under a two-year pilot program.

A deal with Yale — which has the second-largest endowment in the country — would solidify the city’s ability to attract highly competitive universities, in addition to Bay Area heavyweights UC Berkeley and Stanford.

While the mayor’s office declined to share which locations are being considered by the school, an expansion could be part of Lurie’s plans to inject energy into downtown. Former Mayor London Breed had also proposed bringing universities to the city’s center.

The mayor’s office declined to comment.

A spokesperson for Yale provided the following comment: “Yale officials accepted an invitation from the mayor’s office staff to take a tour of the city; we don’t discuss the details of private meetings, but there are no current plans for a satellite campus.”

The university has 6,740 undergraduates, 8,750 graduate and professional students, and 5,744 faculty members. It opened in 1701, making it one of the country’s oldest universities.

Jonathan Meeks, a Yale alumnus and executive at private equity firm TA Associates, introduced Ned Segal, Lurie’s chief of housing and economic development, to Brock via email Dec. 22.

Brock is “leading the business plan for a potential Yale SF campus,” the email states. “It would be great if you guys could speak and you can walk him through some of the learnings of the other institutions that are considering the move.”

A Feb. 18 email shows that Yale’s leaders gave the thumbs up to Brock to go ahead on the proposal.

“The president [Maurie McInnis] wishes to proceed with gaining more information and has looped in more stakeholders for a follow-on meeting that will take place next week,” the email states.

Brock and Cynthia Beach, Yale Engineering’s senior director of development and external relations, toured San Francisco on March 10.

Segal; Faisal Ojjeh, a San Francisco strategic initiatives analyst for housing and economic development; and Ben White, assistant chief for that office, showed the Yale officials around. The group visited two sites.

Upon leaving San Francisco a couple of days later, Brock sent a heartwarming message to the mayor’s office.

“I forgot to take a selfie with the Mayor, but I managed this one from the airport!” Brock said, attaching a photo that was redacted as part of the public records request. It was likely referring to images of Lurie seen at San Francisco International Airport.