San Francisco, California
University of San Francisco School of Law
- Accreditation
- ABA approved since 1935
- Institution type
- Private
- J.D. formats
- Full-time and Part-time J.D.
- Median LSAT
- 155
- Median GPA
- 3.47
- Resident tuition
- $59,800
- First-year class
- 201
- Bar-required jobs
- 76.3%
- First-time bar passage
- 80.9%
J.D. program formats
- Full-time J.D.
- Offered. Full-time first-year students were reported to the ABA.
- Part-time J.D.
- Offered. The school is on the ABA Council’s list of approved part-time programs.
- 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
Certificates
Credentials a school awards for completing a defined set of courses, either alongside the J.D. or as a stand-alone program.
- Animal Law CertificateSchool page for Animal Law Certificate (opens in a new tab)
- Tax Writing, Research, & Applied AI CertificateSchool page for Tax Writing, Research, & Applied AI Certificate (opens in a new tab)
Clinics and field placements
Supervised legal work with real clients or in real legal settings, for credit.
- CREATE Law ClinicSchool page for CREATE Law Clinic (opens in a new tab)
- Criminal Justice ClinicSchool page for Criminal Justice Clinic (opens in a new tab)
- Frank C. Newman International Human Rights Law ClinicSchool page for Frank C. Newman International Human Rights Law Clinic (opens in a new tab)
- Immigration & Deportation Defense ClinicSchool page for Immigration & Deportation Defense Clinic (opens in a new tab)
- Immigration Policy ClinicSchool page for Immigration Policy Clinic (opens in a new tab)
- Racial Justice ClinicSchool page for Racial Justice Clinic (opens in a new tab)
Centers and institutes
Research and program centers that organize a school's teaching, scholarship and events in a field.
- Arns & Brandi Trial InstituteSchool page for Arns & Brandi Trial Institute (opens in a new tab)
- Center for Law, Tech, and Social GoodSchool page for Center for Law, Tech, and Social Good (opens in a new tab)
Journals and advocacy programs
Student-edited publications and competitive advocacy programs.
- Intensive Advocacy ProgramSchool page for Intensive Advocacy Program (opens in a new tab)
Advanced law degrees
Degrees for people who already hold a first degree in law, in the United States or abroad.
- LL.M. programSchool page for LL.M. program (opens in a new tab)
Master's degrees for non-lawyers
Graduate degrees in legal studies for professionals who work with the law but do not intend to practise. They do not qualify graduates to sit for the bar.
- Master of Legal StudiesSchool page for Master of Legal Studies (opens in a new tab)
Curriculum & faculty (2025 ABA report)
Source
- Organization
- American Bar Association, Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar
- Document
- ABA Standard 509 compilation — Curricular Offerings (2025)
- Covers
- Report year 2025
- Retrieved
- Sep 23, 2026
- Status
- Verified · Sep 23, 2026
Clinic and simulation seat counts are only mapped from report layouts that define them unambiguously (2025 onward).
