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.
Website: Official website (opens in a new tab)

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.

Tuition & mandatory fees — 2017-2018

Source

Organization: American Bar Association, Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar
Document: ABA Standard 509 compilation — Tuitions and Fees/Living Expenses/Cond. Scholarships (2017)
Covers: Report year 2017
Retrieved: Sep 28, 2026
Status: Verified · Sep 28, 2026

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Tuition and fees by program and residency
Program	Tuition	Fees
Full-time · resident	$48,500	Not reported
Full-time · nonresident	$48,500	Not reported
Part-time · resident	$35,700	Not reported
Part-time · nonresident	$35,700	Not reported

Living expenses (school estimates)

Source

Organization: American Bar Association, Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar
Document: ABA Standard 509 compilation — Tuitions and Fees/Living Expenses/Cond. Scholarships (2017)
Covers: Report year 2017
Retrieved: Sep 28, 2026
Status: Verified · Sep 28, 2026

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Living off campus$26,908

Annual estimates for single students, as reported by the school. Books, transportation and insurance are not itemized in ABA disclosures.

Estimated annual cost (calculation)

Tuition$48,500
Living expenses (off campus, school estimate)$26,908

PreLaw Advisor total$75,408

Not included (not published): Mandatory fees.

Sum of the school-published figures above. It is not the school’s official cost of attendance and assumes no scholarship.

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Grants & scholarships (2017–2018 students)

Source

Organization: American Bar Association, Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar
Document: ABA Standard 509 compilation — Grants and Scholarships (2017)
Covers: Report year 2017
Retrieved: Sep 28, 2026
Status: Verified · Sep 28, 2026

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Grant recipients and amounts
Measure	All	Full-time	Part-time
Total students	355	261	94
Receiving grants	242	183	59
% receiving grants	Not reported	Not reported	Not reported
Less than half tuition	104	77	27
Half to full tuition	74	60	14
Full tuition	62	44	18
More than full tuition	2	2	0
25th percentile grant	Not applicable	$10,000	$8,000
Median grant	Not applicable	$27,015	$20,000
75th percentile grant	Not applicable	$41,000	$35,200

The ABA publishes grant percentiles by full-time/part-time status only. These describe past awards; they do not indicate what any applicant will receive.

Conditional scholarships

Source

Organization: American Bar Association, Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar
Document: ABA Standard 509 compilation — Tuitions and Fees/Living Expenses/Cond. Scholarships (2017)
Covers: Report year 2017
Retrieved: Sep 28, 2026
Status: Verified · Sep 28, 2026

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The report does not state whether conditional scholarships are offered.

Entering 2016-201787 received · 50 reduced or eliminated
Entering 2015-2016106 received · 61 reduced or eliminated
Entering 2014-201597 received · 59 reduced or eliminated

Figures are School reported to the ABA under Standard 509.