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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.

Historical year — the latest is fall 2023

First-year class — fall 2018

Source
Organization
American Bar Association, Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar
Document
ABA Standard 509 compilation — First Year Class (2018)
Covers
Report year 2018
Retrieved
Sep 28, 2026
Status
Verified · Sep 28, 2026
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First-year class statistics by enrollment status
MeasureAll studentsFull-timePart-time
Completed applications1,479Not applicableNot applicable
Offers of admission906Not applicableNot applicable
Acceptance rate61.3%Not applicableNot applicable
First-year enrollment23720829
LSAT 25th / 50th / 75th147 / 150 / 152147 / 150 / 152145 / 148 / 151
UGPA 25th / 50th / 75th2.65 / 3.03 / 3.302.65 / 3.02 / 3.302.70 / 3.08 / 3.19
Students with GRE scoresNot reportedNot reportedNot reported
Students with JD-Next scoresNot reportedNot reportedNot reported

Where published numbers fall

LSAT25th 147 · Median 150 · 75th 152
LSAT: published 25th percentile 147, median 150, 75th percentile 152.
Undergraduate GPA25th 2.65 · Median 3.03 · 75th 3.30
Undergraduate GPA: published 25th percentile 2.65, median 3.03, 75th percentile 3.30.

The school did not publish full GRE percentiles for this class, so a GRE comparison is not shown. PreLaw Advisor does not convert GRE scores into LSAT equivalents.

These are descriptive statistics about students who enrolled in fall 2018. Being above or below a published percentile does not determine an admissions decision.

J.D. enrollment

Source
Organization
American Bar Association, Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar
Document
ABA Standard 509 compilation — JD Enrollment and Ethnicity (2018)
Covers
Report year 2018
Retrieved
Sep 28, 2026
Status
Verified · Sep 28, 2026
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Total J.D. students
531
1L
252
2L
160
3L
106
4L
13
J.D. degrees awarded
83

Attrition & transfers

1L academic attrition
10.7%
1L other attrition
3.6%
Upper-level academic attrition
2.3%
Transfers in
7
1L transfers out
15
Transfer GPA median
2.38

Transfer GPA percentiles are only published when a school admits 12 or more transfer students.