California - San Francisco, University of: admission requirements and 509 data

What the 2025 numbers say about California - San Francisco, University of

California - San Francisco, University of received 4,593 completed applications for the 2025 entering class and made 1,262 offers of admission, an acceptance rate of 27.5%. 374 of those admitted enrolled, a yield of 29.6%. The full first-year class came to 380 students, all full time. Total JD enrollment across all years is 1,048.

Enrolled students posted a median LSAT of 161, with a 25th percentile of 158 and a 75th of 163. That is 2 points above the 159 median across the 196 ABA-approved schools in this data. It ranks 74 of 196 on LSAT median. Undergraduate GPA ran 3.55 at the 25th percentile, 3.71 at the median and 3.83 at the 75th. 4 of the entering class were admitted on a GRE score rather than an LSAT score.

Full-time tuition is $53,087 for residents and $61,773 for non-residents, a gap of $8,686 a year. Mandatory fees add $1,242. The school's own living-expense estimate for a single student off campus is $34,466. Tuition, fees and that living estimate add up to $97,481 for one year, or $292,443 across three, before any grant. 936 JD students hold a grant or scholarship, 86% of the student body, and the median full-time award is $20,000. 12 awards cover full tuition or more. The school reports conditional scholarships: 304 entering students held one and 50 had it reduced or eliminated.

Of the graduating class that sat a bar exam for the first time, 301 of 359 passed, a rate of 83.84%. The weighted average across the jurisdictions where those graduates sat was 77.87%, so the school ran 5.97 points ahead of the jurisdictions it feeds. Ten months after graduation, 312 of 354 graduates (88.1%) held a job requiring bar admission. 99 joined law firms of 251 lawyers or more (28.0% of the class), of whom 81 went to firms of 501 or more. The largest single destination was California with 311 graduates, followed by New York with 8.

California - San Francisco, University of has been approved by the Council of the ABA Section of Legal Education since 1943. It is a public school based in San Francisco, CA. 15 first-year students left for academic reasons, 4.0% of the class. 3 students transferred in from other law schools.

The full 509 record

California has 17 ABA-approved law schools. The California guide compares them on LSAT median, cost and bar passage, and covers the state's admission rules.

Data: ABA Standard 509 Information Report (2025), published for consumer disclosure, retrieved from the ABA Required Disclosures portal on 2026-09-01. Bar passage and employment figures come from the same portal's Bar Passage Outcomes and Employment Summary reports for the class of 2024. Figures describe the 2025 to 2026 reporting cycle for California - San Francisco, University of and are restated in our own structure; no ABA document or file is reproduced here. Verify anything decision-critical with the school.

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