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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.

Latest verified year

First-year class — fall 2023

Source
Organization
American Bar Association, Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar
Document
ABA Standard 509 compilation — First Year Class (2023)
Covers
Report year 2023
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 applications1,021Not applicableNot applicable
Offers of admission229Not applicableNot applicable
Acceptance rate22.4%Not applicableNot applicable
First-year enrollment251213
LSAT 25th / 50th / 75th150 / 153 / 155149 / 154 / 156151 / 152 / 154
UGPA 25th / 50th / 75th3.02 / 3.28 / 3.463.01 / 3.09 / 3.473.13 / 3.28 / 3.37
Students with GRE scores110
Students with JD-Next scoresNot reportedNot reportedNot reported

Where published numbers fall

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.

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 2023. 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 (2023)
Covers
Report year 2023
Retrieved
Sep 28, 2026
Status
Verified · Sep 28, 2026
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Total J.D. students
198
1L
25
2L
38
3L
114
4L
21
J.D. degrees awarded
105

Attrition & transfers

1L academic attrition
12%
1L other attrition
2%
Upper-level academic attrition
3%
Transfers in
0
1L transfers out
8
Transfer GPA median
Not reported

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