Golden Gate University (GGU or Golden Gate)
is a private, non-profit, nonsectarian university in San Francisco, California. Founded in 1901, GGU specializes in educating
professionals through its schools of law, business, taxation, and accounting.
The university offers six undergraduate degrees with eleven concentrations and
15 graduate degrees with 24 concentrations.
History
The university evolved out of the literary reading
groups of the San Francisco
Central YMCA at a time when, according to one contemporary
estimate, only one of every two thousand men had a college education. GGU
shares its YMCA roots with a number of other U.S. universities,
including Capital University Law School, Michigan State University
College of Law, Northeastern University (Boston,
Massachusetts), Northern Kentucky University Salmon P. Chase College
of Law, Roosevelt University, South Texas College of
Law, University of Toledo College of Law, Western New England
University, and Youngstown State University. On November 1, 1881, at
the YMCA building at 232 Sutter Street, which the organization had
occupied since 1868, the YMCA
Night School was established. Classes were offered
in bookkeeping, mathematics, stenography, elocution,
Spanish and gymnastics. Successful completion of these courses led to
a certificate that was recognized by more than 100 colleges and trade schools.
Other offerings of the association would include a common school for
boys. In April 1894 the YMCA moved to a new five-story building at
the northeast corner of Mason and Ellis Streets.
Mission
Golden Gate University prepares individuals to lead
and serve by providing high-quality, practice-based educational programs in
law, taxation, business, and related professions - as a nonprofit institution -
in an innovative and challenging learning environment that embraces
professional ethics and diversity.
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 academic discipline, are as follows:
·School of
Law (1901)
·Edward S.
Ageno School of Business (1908)
·School
of Accounting (1908)
·Bruce F.
Braden School of Taxation (1970)
Degrees
Bachelors
Bachelor of Arts in Management
Bachelor of Science in Accounting
Bachelor of Science in Data Analytics
Bachelor of Arts in Organizational Leadership &
Human Skills Development
Masters
Master of Arts in Counseling Psychology
Master of Arts in Industrial-Organizational
Psychology