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San Francisco, California

Golden Gate University School of Law

Accreditation
ABA approved — teach-out plan since 1956
Institution type
Private
J.D. formats
Full-time J.D.
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Median LSAT
153
Fall 2023 entering class
Median GPA
3.28
Fall 2023 entering class
Resident tuition
$1,750 / credit
Full-time, 2023-2024
First-year class
25
Enrolled fall 2023
Bar-required jobs
Not published
Class of 2022, full-time long-term
First-time bar passage
35.1%
2021 graduates

Latest verified values from ABA required disclosures. Each dataset describes a different class, as labelled. The job share is PreLaw Advisor’s arithmetic (full-time, long-term bar-passage-required positions ÷ total graduates), not an ABA-published figure.

Published class percentiles — fall 2023

LSAT25th 150 · Median 153 · 75th 155
LSAT: published 25th percentile 150, median 153, 75th percentile 155.
Undergraduate GPA25th 3.02 · Median 3.28 · 75th 3.46
Undergraduate GPA: published 25th percentile 3.02, median 3.28, 75th percentile 3.46.

Published percentiles describe the class that enrolled; they are not an admissions prediction and PreLaw Advisor does not estimate anyone’s chances. Sign in to compare your own numbers privately.

Over the years on file

Median LSAT

1532023

2017: 1482018: 1502019: 1502020: 1502021: 1512022: 1542023: 153
Acceptance rate

22.4%2023

2017: 65.8%2018: 61.3%2019: 55.3%2020: 55.3%2021: 51.5%2022: 25.5%2023: 22.4%
Applications

1,0212023

2017: 1,3062018: 1,4792019: 1,0882020: 1,1892021: 1,2242022: 1,0462023: 1,021
First-time bar passage

35.1%2022

2018: 48.9%2019: 35.9%2020: 43.9%2021: 44.1%2022: 35.1%

Each line fits its own range, so it shows direction over time and cannot be compared with another school’s. Admissions figures use the ABA report year (the fall entering class); bar passage uses the report year, which covers the previous year’s graduates.