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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.

J.D. program formats

Full-time J.D.
Offered. Full-time first-year students were reported to the ABA.
Part-time J.D.
Not yet determined.
Distance-education J.D.
Not on the ABA Council’s distance-education J.D. list.

Formats come from the ABA Council’s published lists, not from the school’s marketing. What each format means

Programs published by the school

Could not be read

1 official page(s) were retrieved but no program names could be read from them. PreLaw Advisor lists joint degrees, clinics and similar programs only from official school sources, never from third-party summaries.

Curriculum & faculty (2023 ABA report)

Source
Organization
American Bar Association, Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar
Document
ABA Standard 509 compilation — Curricular Offerings (2023)
Covers
Report year 2023
Retrieved
Sep 28, 2026
Status
Verified · Sep 28, 2026
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Course titles beyond 1L
Not reported
Clinic positions available
Not reported
Field placements filled
Not reported
Simulation course seats
Not reported
Co-curricular offerings
29
Full-time faculty
33
91 total faculty

Clinic and simulation seat counts are only mapped from report layouts that define them unambiguously (2025 onward).