Golden Gate University

Golden Gate University (informally referred to as GGU, or simply as Golden Gate) is a private, nonsectarian, coeducational university. Founded in 1901, GGU specializes in educating professionals through its schools of law, business, taxation, and accounting.

The University offers two undergraduate degrees with eight concentrations and 15 graduate degrees with 24 concentrations.[ GGU is California's fifth-largest private university, enrolling nearly 5,000 students and representing more than 67,000 alumni. The university's main campus is located in San Francisco with additional teaching sites in Seattle, Silicon Valley and Los Angeles.

Schools

Golden Gate University is primarily a post-graduate institution focused on professional training in law and business, with its smaller undergraduate programs linked to its larger graduate and professional schools.

Its four schools, with the year a university degree was first offered in the area are as follows:

• School of Law (1901)
• Edward S. Ageno School of Business (1908)
• School of Accounting (1908)
• School of Taxation (1970)

The School of Law offers the JD, LLM, and JSD (Doctor of Juridical Science) degrees, while the Ageno School of Business offers the degrees of BA, BS, MS, MBA, PMBA, and DBA (Doctor of Business Administration). The School of Taxation offers an MS in Taxation and the School of Accounting offers the MAc (Master of Accountancy).

As of June 2012, the Ageno School of Business was ranked 182 on the Social Science Research Network's list of the Top 500 U.S. Business Schools.

Campus

The GGU campus is located in the Financial District of San Francisco. It maintains satellite teaching/learning sites in the following locations:

• The Los Angeles learning site was established in the 1970s and offers graduate in taxation through the School of Taxation and the School of Law.

• The Silicon Valley learning site offers graduate programs in business and public administration.

• The Seattle learning site (opened in 1974) is the only one located outside of California. It offers programs in Taxation.

Alexis Wong

BS 94, MBA 96

“It was important to me that my professors were working practitioners who had experience with both success and failure. Without the scholarship program I would not have gotten the education that I did. My time was limited. I was working forty-to-sixty hours a week, so I appreciated being able to go to a night class in a good program with a flexible schedule.”

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