by our College Data Analytics Team
College Factual analyzes over 2,000 colleges and universities in its annual rankings and ranks them in a variety of ways, including most diverse, best overall quality, best for non-traditional students, and much more.
Golden Gate University - San Francisco was awarded 36 badges in the 2025 rankings. The highest ranked major at the school is general business administration and management.
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According to College Factual's 2025 analysis, Golden Gate University - San Francisco is ranked #166 out of 2,152 schools in the nation that were analyzed for overall quality. This puts it in the top 10% of all schools in the nation. This is an improvement over the previous year, when Golden Gate University - San Francisco held the #181 spot on the Best Overall Colleges list.
Golden Gate University - San Francisco also holds the #23 spot on the Best Colleges in California ranking.
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The student to faculty ratio at Golden Gate University - San Francisco is about average at 13 to 1. This ratio is often used to gauge how many students might be in an average class and how much time professors will have to spend with their students on an individual level. The national average for this metric is 15 to 1.
Another measure that is often used to estimate how much access students will have to their professors is how many faculty members are full-time. The idea here is that part-time faculty tend to spend less time on campus, so they may not be as available to students as full-timers.
The full-time faculty percentage at Golden Gate University - San Francisco is 100%. This is higher than the national average of 47%.
During the 2017-2018 academic year, there were 595 undergraduates at Golden Gate University - San Francisco with 429 being full-time and 166 being part-time.
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Contact details for Golden Gate University - San Francisco are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 536 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94105-2968 |
| Phone: | 415-442-7800 |
| Website: | www.ggu.edu/ |
| Most Popular Majors | Bachelor’s Degrees | Average Salary of Graduates |
|---|---|---|
| Business Administration & Management | 301 | $77,752 |
| Law | 114 | NA |
| Taxation | 97 | NA |
| Human Resource Management | 93 | NA |
| Clinical, Counseling & Applied Psychology | 55 | NA |
| Accounting | 44 | NA |
| Management Sciences & Quantitative Methods | 37 | NA |
| Computer Information Systems | 35 | NA |
| General Psychology | 35 | NA |
| Public Administration | 35 | NA |
Online learning is becoming popular at even the oldest colleges and universities in the United States. Not only are online classes great for returning adults with busy schedules, they are also frequented by a growing number of traditional students.
In 2022-2023, 1,727 students took at least one online class at Golden Gate University - San Francisco. This is an increase from the 1,352 students who took online classes the previous year.
| Year | Took at Least One Online Class | Took All Classes Online |
|---|---|---|
| 2022-2023 | 1,727 | 769 |
| 2021-2022 | 1,352 | 325 |
| 2020-2021 | 1,659 | 514 |
| 2018-2019 | 1,260 | 784 |
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Footnotes
*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.
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