Golden Gate University

Director of admissions

Angela Dalfen

Application deadline

04/01

Full-time program application fee

$60

Part-time program application fee

$60

Besides the fall semester, can enter in

N/A

Total number of full- and part-time applicants

2,737

Total number of full- and part-time acceptances

1,373

Overall acceptance rate

Total number of full- and part-time first-year students enrolled

253

Number of full-time program applicants

2,410

Number of full-time program acceptances

1,255

Full-time acceptance rate

52.1%

Number of first-year full-time students enrolled

208

Number of part-time program applicants

327

Number of part-time program acceptances

118

Part-time acceptance rate

36.1%

Number of first-year part-time students enrolled

45

25th-75th percentile GPA scores for all students

25th-75th percentile LSAT scores for all students

25th-75th percentile undergraduate GPA for full-time students

2.97-3.48

25th-75th percentile LSAT scores for full-time students

151-155

25th-75th percentile undergraduate GPA for part-time students

2.78-3.34

25th-75th percentile LSAT scores for part-time students

151-155

State where the greatest number of first-time test takers took the bar

CA

School’s bar passage rate for first-time test takers

68.4%

Statewide bar passage rate for first-time test takers

65.7%

Total graduates

250

Graduates employed at graduation

N/A

Graduates known to be employed nine months after graduation

25th percentile private sector starting salary

$50,000

Median private sector starting salary

$65,500

75th percentile private sector starting salary

$82,500

Percent in the private sector who reported salary information

66%

Median public service starting salary

$66,000

Percent employed in academia

6.0%

Percent employed in business and industry

28.0%

Percent employed in government

13.0%

Percent employed in all judicial clerkships

1.0%

Percent employed in law firms

44.0%

Percent employed in public interest

8.0%

Percent employed in an unknown field

0.0%

Percent employed in a judicial clerkship by an Article III federal judge

1.0%

Graduates employed in-state

90%

Graduates employed in foreign countries

0%

Number of states where graduates are employed

13

New England (CT, ME, MA, NH, RI, VT)

0.5%

Middle Atlantic (NY, NJ, PA)

0.5%

East North Central (IL, IN, MI, OH, WI)

0.5%

West North Central (IA, KS, MN, MO, NE, ND, SD)

0.0%

South Atlantic (DE, DC, FL, GA, MD, NC, SC, VA, WV)

2.4%

East South Central (AL, KY, MS, TN)

0.0%

West South Central (AR, LA, OK, TX)

1.5%

Pacific (AK, CA, HI, OR, WA)

91.7%

Mountain (AZ, CO, ID, MT, NV, NM, UT, WY)

2.9%

Employment location unknown

0.0%

Career services operations: Law Career Services (LCS) provides a wide variety of resources and programs to guide students and alumni in their career planning. The professional staff draws expertise from years of work in a variety of legal practice settings. GGU students are successful in finding jobs with large and small law firms, government agencies, public interest organizations, the courts, corporations and academia.

Bar admission required or anticipated (e.g., attorney and corporate counsel positions, law clerks, judicial clerks)

54.0%

J.D. preferred, law degree enhances position (e.g., corporate contracts administrator, alternative dispute resolution specialist, government regulatory analyst, FBI special agent)

30.0%

Professional/other (jobs that require professional skills or training but for which a J.D. is neither preferred nor particularly applicable; e.g., accountant, teacher, business manager, nurse)

12.0%

Nonprofessional/other (job that does not require any professional skills or training or is taken on a temporary basis and not viewed as part of a career path)

3.0%