About Golden Gate University

Golden Gate University (GGU or Golden Gate) is a private university in San Francisco, California. Founded in 1901, GGU specializes in educating professionals through its schools of law, business, taxation, technology, accounting, psychology, and undergraduate studies. The university offers 8 undergraduate degrees and 17 graduate degree progams.

Golden Gate 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.