The loveliness of Paris, seems somehow sadly gay

Anyone knowledgable concerning Golden Gate University?

 

Yes. What did you want to know? About the table?

They actually have the world's largest table in their building on Mission Street in San Francisco.

My youngest daughter went there for one semester, not because of the table. She had dropped out of school after the 9th grade and worked for 3 years, and needed to prove to the school she really wanted to go to that she could do university-level work, and GGU seemed willing to take any full-paying student.

 

That doesn't strike me as a stellar recommendation.

Their prices are a little high but they have a few programs you can't find anywhere else (at least not in the US). Are they fairly decent or are GGU grads laughed at???


GGU seemed willing to take any full-paying student.

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Well said daughter did go on to graduate Phi Beta Kappa at San Francisco State, so in her case they did the right thing.

I think most major cities have at least one good, well-regarded (locally), workmanlike (dare I say 'blue collar') school, that win few awards and rarely appear on 'best' lists, but continue to do a decent job of providing a sound education. City University Seattle and Wayne State and City University of New York and Golden Gate, etc.

A former GGU registrar reads this forum and posts from time to time. Perhaps he will chime in here.

 

http://www.ggu.edu

My attorney graduated from their law school. He's quite competent. I took a legal research class one time in their law library, and I walked past their building every day for years (making me an expert on them for sure).

The school is very urban, occupying one large building on Mission Street downtown, with some satellite stuff (like their bookstore) scattered around nearby. Not a conventional campus, but decent facilities.

They specialize in business and law on the graduate level. They have undergraduate programs, but those seem like kind of an afterthought. That fact might be part of why they get a relatively low rating by USNews. (The Goreman Report likes their graduate programs better.)

They had plans to branch out from business into a full array of university subjects, but they have trimmed those plans back in the last few weeks for economic reasons. Instead they plan to reemphasize their core, I guess. A number of existing programs (including their very cool arts management masters) are slated for termination.

GGU isn't really prestigious, but it does have very close ties to the SF business community and local government. Many of their students work in the office towers downtown, a short walk away, and take evening classes. So GGU's on-campus students are perhaps an older already-employed crowd, as opposed to the more traditional kind of student across the bay in Berkeley. That makes things interesting since some of your classmates probably work over at city hall in the belly of the beast.

But before you make any decisions about GGU, go to their website and click on the "message from the president" thing at the bottom and read that. It has details about their upcoming reorganization.

 

Thanks for the info.

Depending on whether you are an optimist or a pessimist, the President's message is either a glass half-full or a glass half-empty.

Normally, I wouldn't consider a school like GGU but they do have some things going for them from a DL perspective.
1) Prices. At the high end but still reasonable
2) Programs. They offer a MS in finance and a MAcct. It will be interesting to see if they expand their cyber offerings to include their doctorate and law degrees at some point.
3) RA