San Francisco Law School

What San Francisco Law School does

San Francisco Law School operates as an acquired subsidiary of Alliant University (legal name: Alliant University, also doing business as Alliant International University), an independent private, non-profit educational institution headquartered at 10455 Pomerado Road, San Diego, California. Alliant describes itself as the first standalone university to receive Certified B Corporation status and was founded in 1924; it first earned WASC Senior College and University Commission (WSCUC) accreditation in 1977 and added San Francisco Law School as a legal-education subsidiary in July 2010. The university is governed by a Leadership & Governance structure with Andy Vaughn as CEO and President and is supported by the Alliant Educational Foundation, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit.

The Alliant system runs five separate colleges and seven campuses across California and Arizona and offers a portfolio of online and on-ground graduate and undergraduate programs concentrated in mental health, education, healthcare, business, forensics, and law. Degree offerings include business administration (MBA, DBA), data analytics, information systems technology, clinical and organizational psychology (MA, PhD, PsyD), marital and family therapy, social work, teaching credentials, nursing (BSN, MSN), occupational therapy, forensic behavioral science, and hospitality management via the Vatel Institute. San Francisco Law School is one piece of this portfolio, focused specifically on legal education and retaining its legacy brand.

Alliant generates revenue primarily through tuition, fees, and auxiliary education services across its campuses and online programs, supplemented by fundraising through its educational foundation; specific revenue figures are not publicly disclosed. The institution markets itself to graduate and credential-seeking professionals domestically and internationally, claiming more than 50,000 alumni across 50 states and 150 countries, with active admissions channels for international and veteran/military students.

Name

San Francisco Law School

Legal name

Alliant University

Website

https://alliant.edu

Company type

Private

Founded year

1924

Operating status

Operating

Short description

San Francisco Law School is the legal-education subsidiary of Alliant University, a private nonprofit university system headquartered in San Diego, California, that delivers graduate and undergraduate programs in law, psychology, education, healthcare, and business across seven campuses in California and Arizona and online.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Legal Education

NAICS

Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools (6113)

SIC

Services-Educational Services (8200)

akta.pro primary industry

Non-ABA / State-Accredited JD-Granting Law Schools (EDAHAIAB)

Keywords

• Legal education
• Law school
• Higher education
• Professional degrees
• Accredited university

Headquarters

HQ city

San Francisco

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure

Core offering

San Francisco Law School provides legal education as a subsidiary of Alliant International University, which was acquired in July 2010 to add legal studies to the university's portfolio. As a law school within a multi-school university system, it offers legal degree programs and is part of an institution accredited by WASC Senior College and University Commission since 1977.

Product overview

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Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

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Has API

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Recent moves4 records

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Regional players

• University of San Francisco School of Law: Jesuit private ABA-accredited law school in San Francisco; competes locally for Bay Area applicants and underscores the limited geographic moat of SF Law School within the same city.
• Santa Clara University School of Law: Bay Area Jesuit-affiliated ABA law school offering JD and JD/MBA dual degrees, representing a credentialed alternative for the same Northern California applicant pool.

Direct peers

• Concord Law School at Purdue Global: Online-first, non-traditional JD program now backed by Purdue Global's ABA-equivalent pathway; competes directly with SF Law School for working adults seeking a California/online JD outside the traditional ABA model.
• Southwestern Law School: Los Angeles-based private ABA-accredited law school targeting non-traditional and evening students; competes with SF Law School in the Southern California professional JD market.
• Golden Gate University School of Law: Private, San Francisco-based ABA-accredited law school that competes with SF Law School for the same Bay Area working-professional JD market but with full ABA recognition.
• Monterey College of Law: Non-ABA accredited law school in California sharing SF Law School's profile of state-bar-focused JD programs for non-traditional and working-professional students.
• Mitchell Hamline School of Law: ABA-accredited hybrid JD program (formerly William Mitchell / Hamline) widely seen as a benchmark for online/hybrid legal education and a direct competitive benchmark for SF Law School's online ambitions.
• Pacific West College of Law (formerly Trinity Law School): Santa Ana-based, non-ABA JD-granting school that, like SF Law School, primarily prepares students for the California bar and operates on a non-traditional, often faith-aligned mission.

Broad incumbents

• Alliant International University (parent): Private multi-school university that owns SF Law School as a subsidiary; comparable only in the sense that it shares accreditation infrastructure and back-office, but operates a much broader portfolio than legal education.
• Purdue Global (overall parent of Concord): Large-scale online university system whose Concord unit competes with SF Law School; broader portfolio illustrates the scale advantage integrated online operators bring against standalone niche law schools.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks4 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• YouTubeyoutube.com/user/AlliantIntlUniv1
• Facebookfacebook.com/sflawschool
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/alliant-international-university
• Instagraminstagram.com/alliantu
• TikToktiktok.com/@alliantuniversity

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Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Subsidiaries1 record

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Investments

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