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The University of San Francisco, a private, nonprofit, Jesuit university was founded in 1855. The USF School of Law is ranked the sixth most ethnically diverse law school in the nation by U.S. News and World Report.

Admission

Number of JD Applicants for Fall 2020 Class: 1,839

Number Enrolled: 108

Tuition: Visit our Tuition & Financial Aid for JD page.

Financial Aid: Approximately 90 percent of students receive financial aid including scholarships and/or federal or private loans.

Academics

Accreditation
The Council of the Section on Legal Education and Admission to the Bar of the American Bar Association.
Contact info: 312 N. Clark St., Chicago, IL 60654. www.americanbar.org/legaled

Degrees Offered
JD, JD/MBA, JD/MUPA, JD/LLM in Taxation, LLM in International Transactions and Comparative Law, LLM in Intellectual Property and Technology Law, LLM in Taxation, Master of Legal Studies in Taxation (MLST), 3+3 Bachelor's and JD

JD Certificate Programs
Business Law, International and Comparative Law, Intellectual Property and Technology Law, Labor and Employment Law, Public Interest Law, Tax Law

Centers and Institutes
Center for Law and Ethics

International Programs
Summer international externships in China, Czech Republic, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Liechtenstein, London, Mexico, Paris, Spain, Vietnam. Semester exchanges in Czech Republic, Hong Kong, Luxembourg

Law Clinics
Criminal and Juvenile Justice, Immigration and Deportation Defense, Immigration Policy, International Human Rights, Internet and Intellectual Property Justice, and Racial Justice

Students

Total Enrollment (as of August 24, 2020)

  • JD Students: 369
  • LLM Students: 43
  • MLST Students: 87

Fall 2020 JD Class Profile

  • Women: 61.1%
  • Students of Color: 53.7%
  • Number of undergraduate schools represented: 61

Top California Feeder Schools

  • Cal Poly San Luis Obispo
  • Chico State University
  • University of California, Berkeley
  • University of California, Davis
  • University of California, Los Angeles
  • University of California, San Diego
  • University of California, Santa Barbara
  • University of California, Santa Cruz
  • University of San Francisco
  • Santa Clara University

Top Out-of-State Feeder Schools

  • Arizona State University
  • Columbia University
  • Emory University
  • Harvard University
  • NYU
  • Oberlin College
  • Ohio State University
  • University of Arizona
  • University of Oregon
  • University of Washington

Student Government

  • Student Bar Association

Student Organizations (partial list)

  • Pride Law
  • Business Law Association
  • Black Law Students Association
  • International Law Society
  • Women's Law Association

Faculty

Full-Time and Tenured Faculty: 38

Part-time Faculty: 60

Alumni

Number of Alumni: 10,000

Approximately 72 percent of alumni are located in California, with more than half in the San Francisco Bay Area.

From the law school's founding in 1912 to today, approximately 340 alumni have become judges.

Publications

University of San Francisco Law Review, Intellectual Property Law Bulletin, Maritime Law Journal

Facilities

The USF School of Law is housed in the Koret Law Center, comprising Kendrick Hall and the Dorraine Zief Law Library. The School of Law is part of the 55-acre USF campus, perched on a hilltop in a residential neighborhood overlooking the San Francisco Bay, Golden Gate Park, and downtown.

View of Kendrick Hall from Fulton Avenue

Kendrick Hall

Completely renovated in 2003, Kendrick Hall is home to lecture halls, seminar rooms, a moot court room, faculty and administrative offices, student lounge and meeting space, an art gallery, and soaring atrium.

Student studying in Koret Law Center library

Dorraine Zief Law Library

Built in 2000, the library is a 49,000-square-foot, three-story facility fully equipped with the most advanced technological infrastructure and more than 350,000 volumes of print and electronic legal materials.

Equal Opportunity and Non-Discrimination Policy

The University is an equal opportunity institution of higher learning education. As a matter of policy, the University does not discriminate in employment, educational services, and academic programs on the basis of an individual's race, color, religion, religious creed, ancestry, national origin, age (except minors), sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital status, medical condition (cancer-related and genetic-related), and disability, and on other bases prohibited by law. The University reasonably accommodates qualified individuals with disabilities under the law.

53%

Students of Color, and 61% Women