Gonzaga Law's placement numbers point toward the Washington state courts, regional government, and mid-size firms — not Big Law. Of the school's 2025-reporting graduating class, only 2.5% (5 graduates) landed at firms of 501+ attorneys, the category that anchors the widely cited six-figure "Big Law" salary peak. The much larger share of the class went to smaller firms: approximately 21.2% to firms of 1–10 attorneys, 11.6% to 11–25-attorney shops, and another 10.6% spread across 26–250-attorney firms. Government work (17.2%, 34 graduates) and public interest (12.1%, 24 graduates) together outweigh large-firm placement several times over, and the school's own reporting flags Washington state itself as its largest single employment destination for graduates.
That orientation isn't incidental — it's built into the school's history and its building. Gonzaga's law school opened in 1912 under the motto "A First Class Law School, or None at All," and its Barbieri Courtroom is used by the Washington Supreme Court and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit to hear real oral arguments on campus, putting students in the same room as sitting appellate judges. From 2008 to 2020, three Gonzaga-trained justices — Barbara Madsen ('77), Mary Fairhurst ('84), and Debra L. Stephens ('93) — held a majority on the Washington Supreme Court, each serving a turn as chief justice, and current Washington Supreme Court chief justice Steven González teaches on the faculty today. Add federal district judges (Franklin D. Burgess, Thomas O. Rice, and others), a run of U.S. attorneys for the Eastern District of Washington, and alumni like former Washington governor Christine Gregoire ('77) and U.S. Senator Catherine Cortez Masto ('90, Nevada), and the throughline is a bench-and-government pipeline rooted in the Pacific Northwest and Mountain West, not a Wall Street firm feeder pattern.
Licensure outcomes back up that regional focus rather than undercutting it. Gonzaga graduates posted an 85.85% first-time Washington bar pass rate against a state average of 81.96%, and an ultimate pass rate of 92.74% within two years. Historical ABA data cited by the school also shows 96.58% of its 2015 graduating class passing a bar exam within two years — a figure the school says placed it in the top 30 of roughly 213 ABA-accredited schools that year, though that cohort is now a decade old and shouldn't be read as a current-year guarantee.
For an applicant, the practical translation is this: if the goal is a Big Law associate seat in a national market, Gonzaga's numbers say that outcome is rare (5 graduates in the most recent reporting year). If the goal is a Washington or wider Pacific Northwest legal career — state or federal clerkship, prosecutor or public defender's office, agency work, or a regional firm — the school's placement pattern, judicial alumni network, and above-average bar passage are the more honest measure of fit.
A 155 LSAT sits exactly at Gonzaga Law's median, a 158 is at its 75th percentile, and a 153 marks its 25th percentile — those three numbers are the real planning anchors, not a probability of admission. On the GPA side, the middle half of the entering class ranges from 3.24 to 3.76, with 3.55 as the median. Gonzaga received 1,273 applications and extended 651 offers for its most recently reported cycle, an overall acceptance rate of 51.14%, and enrolled a class of 203 full-time students (the school does not report a part-time division).
What those numbers mean in practice: an applicant testing at or above 158 and with a GPA at or above 3.76 is above both 75th-percentile benchmarks, though the pack does not let us state anything about admission chances themselves. An applicant near the 153/3.24 floor is within the school's reported range but at its lower edge. Because LSAT movement of even a few points can shift where an applicant lands relative to Gonzaga's 153-155-158 band, test preparation strategy (see the LSAT prep guide) is one of the highest-leverage things an applicant fully controls before applying.
Ninety-eight percent of students receive some grant aid, and the reported median grant is $32,000 a year for full-time students. Among students receiving aid, the school reports 32% get scholarships covering less than half of tuition, 64% get between half and full tuition, and only 2% receive a full-tuition award — meaning the large majority of funded students land in that middle half-to-full band rather than at either extreme. Sticker tuition is $57,962 a year plus $825 in mandatory fees, and the school's own estimated full annual cost of attendance, including an off-campus living estimate of $17,105, is $75,892.
Set against that sticker price, a $32,000 median grant covers a little over half of tuition alone, leaving a meaningful gap to close with federal loans, savings, or private borrowing — and that gap is exactly the kind of number worth pressure-testing against multiple offers before enrolling (see the scholarship negotiation guide). As of the 2026-27 cycle, federal Direct Unsubsidized loans are capped at $50,000 a year for law students, a ceiling that will not fully cover Gonzaga's estimated cost of attendance on its own once loan fees and living costs are included, so understanding how the loan caps, repayment plans, and PSLF eligibility interact (see the loans and PSLF guide) matters as much as the admissions numbers themselves before deciding whether the offer in hand is workable.
Gonzaga's most recent first-time bar passage rate was 85.85%, compared with a Washington state average of 81.96% for the same sitting — a roughly four-point gap in the school's favor. Its two-year ultimate passage rate, which captures graduates who needed a repeat attempt, reached 92.74%, meaning the overwhelming majority of a given Gonzaga class is licensed within two years of graduation even if not everyone clears the bar on the first try.
This is not a one-time blip. The school's own published bar history shows passage rates fluctuating between 75% and 100% over recent years, but consistently landing above the Washington average in each of those cycles. In one standout sitting, February 2016, 100% of Gonzaga's first-time takers passed the Washington bar. Looking further back, the ABA found that 96.58% of Gonzaga's 2015 graduating class passed a bar exam within two years — a result the school notes placed it in the top 30 of the roughly 213 ABA-accredited law schools nationally that year — and 91% of the 2017 class ultimately passed.
What's driving the consistency? Part of the answer is curricular: Gonzaga runs a heavily practice-oriented program, with 142 of 169 available clinic seats filled, 191 filled field-placement slots, and 417 filled simulation-course seats across the student body, on top of 14 co-curricular offerings. That volume of hands-on, supervised legal work — well beyond a typical doctrinal course load — gives students repeated exposure to the kind of applied legal reasoning the bar exam (and, soon, the NextGen bar) is designed to test, rather than leaving bar preparation entirely to a final-semester cram course.
The school's judicial pedigree in Washington also reinforces the pipeline: from 2008 to 2020, three Gonzaga alumnae — Barbara Madsen, Mary Fairhurst, and Debra L. Stephens — held a majority of seats on the Washington Supreme Court, each serving successively as chief justice, and several other alumni sit or have sat as U.S. district judges in the state's federal courts. That density of Gonzaga-trained judges and practitioners in the Washington bench and bar suggests a curriculum and local reputation calibrated closely to how Washington actually licenses and evaluates its lawyers.
A practical note for applicants: Washington administers the Uniform Bar Exam, which is portable to other UBE jurisdictions within their score-transfer windows, but the exam format is shifting toward the NCBE's NextGen bar in many states by 2028. Because that transition is still unfolding, applicants should verify Washington's current bar exam structure and Gonzaga's most recent passage statistics directly with the school or the Washington State Bar Association before treating any single year's numbers as durable predictors.
Most Gonzaga graduates end up in small and mid-sized private practice within Washington, not at a national Big Law firm. Of the 198 graduates in the reporting class, 79.8% landed in full-time, long-term jobs that either require bar passage or are JD-advantage positions, and the single largest employment category the school reports is simply "Washington" — a strong signal that the school functions primarily as a regional feeder into the state's legal market rather than a national placement pipeline.
Only 5 graduates (2.5%) went to firms of 501 or more attorneys — the Big Law tier where salaries cluster near the high end of the national bimodal distribution. The much larger story is in small and mid-sized firms: 42 graduates went to firms of 1-10 attorneys, 23 to firms of 11-25, 10 to firms of 26-50, 7 to firms of 51-100, and 4 to firms of 101-250. Added together, that's 86 graduates — well over 40% of the class — in firms under 250 attorneys, the setting where most working lawyers in Spokane and the broader Pacific Northwest actually practice.
Government and public interest work make up a substantial share of outcomes too. Thirty-four graduates (17.2%) took government jobs and another 24 (12.1%) went into public interest positions, together accounting for close to 30% of the class — a meaningfully large public-sector footprint that tracks with the law school's own centers, including its Center for Law in Public Service and Center for Civil and Human Rights, and clinics like the Federal Indian Law Clinic and the Catholic Charities Immigration Clinic that route students toward exactly this kind of work.
Clerkships are a smaller but real outcome: 2 graduates secured federal clerkships and 13 landed state or local clerkships, for 15 total — a path that tends to draw academically strong graduates into short-term public-sector credentialing before they move to firm or government practice. Only 2 graduates reported business/industry placements, suggesting in-house or corporate-track outcomes are not where this school's graduates concentrate.
Gonzaga's long list of judicial alumni in the region — sitting or former U.S. district judges in the Eastern and Western Districts of Washington, multiple Washington Supreme Court justices, and appellate judges in Oregon and Montana — reflects the same regional pattern seen in current placement data: graduates who stay in the Pacific Northwest and build careers through the state courts, U.S. Attorney's offices, and government service, rather than a pipeline built around national law firm recruiting. For an applicant whose goal is Big Law from day one, the 2.5% placement rate at 501+ firms is the honest baseline to plan around; for an applicant aiming at Washington state government, public interest, or firm practice below the AmLaw 200, Gonzaga's outcomes data lines up closely with that goal.
Gonzaga backs up its practical-training reputation with real numbers: the school reports 169 clinic seats available in a recent cycle, with 142 filled, plus 191 filled field-placement slots and 417 filled seats in simulation courses — a volume that suggests most students are cycling through more than one hands-on offering before graduation. The Chastek Law Library and the Barbieri Courtroom give that training a real-world stage: the courtroom is used by the Washington Supreme Court and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit for actual oral arguments, so students can watch (and in clinic contexts, prepare briefing for) sitting judges hearing live cases in the building where they attend class.
The clinic roster itself is unusually broad for a school this size, spanning a Business Law Clinic, Catholic Charities Immigration Clinic, Elder Law Clinic, Environmental Law & Land Use Clinic, Federal Indian Law Clinic, Federal Tax Clinic, General Practice Clinic, Mortgage Foreclosure Clinic, and the Lincoln LGBTQ+ Rights Clinic — nine distinct clinics covering commercial, immigration, tax, environmental, tribal, housing, and civil-rights practice areas. That range lets a student build a clinical transcript around a specific interest (say, federal Indian law or immigration) rather than take whatever single generalist clinic a smaller program can offer.
The school also lists 14 co-curricular offerings, the kind of moot court, trial team, and skills-competition activity that supplements formal clinical hours. The National Jurist recognized this infrastructure with a 'B+' ranking among the top 37 law schools for practical training (2018 and 2016), and separately rated Gonzaga's law building an 'A' for facilities in 2018 — both third-party signals that point in the same direction as the internal enrollment numbers.
What the pack does not break out is a clinic-by-clinic capacity rate or a guarantee that every student gets a clinic seat; with 142 of 169 available seats filled, most but not all clinic capacity was used, so students who want a specific clinic should ask admissions directly about current enrollment odds and any prerequisites.
Gonzaga's Jesuit identity is visible less in a single mission statement and more in the specific centers, clinics, and placement patterns the law school has built. As a private, Jesuit-affiliated institution founded as part of Gonzaga University, the law school runs a cluster of centers oriented toward service and social-justice practice areas: the Beatriz and Ed Schweitzer Border Justice Initiative, the Task Force on Race and the Criminal Justice System, the Center for Law in Public Service, and the Center for Civil and Human Rights sit alongside more conventional academic infrastructure like the Commercial Law Center and the Institute for Law Teaching and Learning. The Gonzaga Center for Law and Justice, which houses the University Legal Assistance clinical program, functions as an umbrella for the school's client-facing clinical work.
That mission orientation also shows up in the clinic list itself — the Catholic Charities Immigration Clinic, Federal Indian Law Clinic, and Elder Law Clinic all serve populations that align with Jesuit commitments to marginalized and underserved communities — and in outcomes data: 17.2% of the most recent graduating class went into government work and another 12.1% into public interest, together accounting for close to three in ten graduates, a meaningfully public-sector-facing distribution for a class of under 200.
External recognition has followed a similar thread: The National Jurist ranked Gonzaga the #3 law school for Latter-day Saint students and #6 most devout Catholic law school in 2017, and LSAC named it a Top 10 school for its LSAC Diversity Matters initiative, giving it a Diversity Matters Award in 2013. Those are reputational markers rather than outcome guarantees, but they corroborate a mission-driven identity that the centers and clinic lineup make concrete rather than aspirational.
The pack does not specify course loads, staffing, or annual caseloads for each center, so students weighing how deeply they could actually engage with, say, the Border Justice Initiative or the Race and Criminal Justice Task Force should ask the school directly about current student involvement and course credit tied to each center.
Gonzaga's law school opened October 1, 1912, under founding dean Edward J. Cannon and the motto 'A First Class Law School, or None at All' — a founding line the school still invokes to frame its ambitions. The first class graduated just 13 students in June 1915. The school has held ABA accreditation since 1951 and is a member of the Association of American Law Schools.
The law school spent 38 years, from 1962 to 2000, housed in the former Webster School before moving into its current purpose-built home on the banks of the Spokane River — a 104,000-square-foot building that opened in May 2000 at a cost of $18.5 million under Dean John Clute's fundraising drive. That building now contains the Barbieri Courtroom, notable for hosting actual oral arguments from the Washington Supreme Court and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, and the Chastek Law Library, a Federal Depository Library with more than 380,000 volumes.
One early distinction predates the current building: in 1974, Gonzaga opened one of the country's first legal clinics, decades ahead of clinical education becoming a standard law school feature. The school marked its centennial in 2012. Its Douglas Lecture Series has, over the years, brought U.S. Supreme Court justices and other prominent jurists — including William O. Douglas, William H. Rehnquist, Byron White, Arthur Goldberg, and Antonin Scalia — to Spokane to speak.
Gonzaga Law's alumni roster extends well past the state and federal bench into elected office, tribal and international leadership, and some genuinely unusual careers. U.S. Senator Catherine Cortez Masto (class of 1990), who also served as Nevada attorney general, and former Washington Governor Christine Gregoire (class of 1977) are the most prominent names in elected politics. Christopher Loeak (class of 1982) went on to serve as the sixth president of the Marshall Islands, and multiple graduates have held seats in the U.S. House, including Lloyd Meeds and George Nethercutt.
Outside of law and politics, the list gets more unexpected: Bing Crosby attended Gonzaga (1922–1924) without graduating; Jim Wickwire (class of 1967) became a world-class mountaineer and the first American to summit K2; and Chad Little (class of 1988) won the NASCAR Winston West Series championship in 1987. Devon Pritchard (class of 2001) rose to become the fifth president of Nintendo of America, a rare law-degree-to-gaming-industry path. Michael Farris (class of 1976) founded Patrick Henry College and later led Alliance Defending Freedom.
These names illustrate a range the bar-passage and firm-placement statistics alone don't capture — a Gonzaga JD has, at various points, led a video-game company, summited one of the world's most dangerous peaks, and run for national office. That said, this is a curated list of standout outcomes across more than a century of graduates, not a representative sample of the typical post-JD career.
Illustrative: 3-year borrowing at the 2026-27 federal rate (8.07%) over 10 years; your figures depend on your offer and salary.
Yes — 98% of Gonzaga's entering class carries some form of grant, but that statistic hides a wide spread in what "getting money" actually means. The size of the award is what determines whether Gonzaga is affordable.
Among grant recipients, the awards break into three tiers: about 32% receive less than half-tuition, 64% land somewhere between half-tuition and full-tuition, and only about 2% receive a full ride. The reported median grant among full-time recipients is $32,000 a year. Set that against sticker tuition and fees of roughly $58,787 a year, and the typical grant recipient is covering a bit over half of tuition — which is consistent with the half-to-full band being where most of the class actually lands.
That still leaves a real gap. Gonzaga's estimated full cost of attendance, including an off-campus living allowance of $17,105, runs about $75,892 a year. A $32,000 grant against that number still leaves roughly $44,000 a year to fund through savings, work, or borrowing — and as of the 2026-27 cycle, federal Direct Unsubsidized loans for law students are capped at $50,000 a year and $200,000 in aggregate, with Grad PLUS no longer available to new borrowers. That structural change (verify current figures before you rely on it) means a shortfall at any private law school, Gonzaga included, is increasingly bridged by scholarship dollars rather than federal debt — which is exactly why the size of your offer matters more than the fact that you received one.
A separate question worth asking of any private law school is whether its scholarships are conditional — tied to maintaining a GPA floor after 1L, with reduction or loss if you fall below a set class rank or curve cutoff. This is a common structure nationally, and it can turn an attractive first-year number into a much smaller one by 2L. Gonzaga's own ABA-required disclosures for the three most recently reported cycles show no students entering under a conditional scholarship-reduction structure and no recorded reductions in those years. That reading is consistent with a program that does not rely heavily on conditional stacking, but the underlying data fields are sparse enough that you should confirm the exact terms of any individual offer letter rather than assume no strings are attached.
The practical takeaway: because 98% of the class gets something, receiving an offer is not the differentiator — the tier you land in is. Once you have an offer in hand, it's worth comparing it against other schools' offers using the general negotiation mechanics covered in our scholarship negotiation guide — leverage from a peer offer is often the only thing that moves a financial aid letter after the fact.
The single most useful number to know before you apply is Gonzaga's LSAT median: 155, with a 25th percentile of 153 and a 75th percentile of 158. Those three numbers are planning anchors, not predictions — but they tell you exactly how a file reviewer will read your score. A 158 or higher places you at or above Gonzaga's 75th percentile, a 155 sits right at the middle of the admitted class, and a 153 is where the 25th percentile falls, meaning a meaningful share of admitted students score at or below that mark. The GPA band runs alongside it at 3.24/3.55/3.76, so a strong GPA can offset a softer LSAT and vice versa — file readers at most schools this size weigh the two together rather than in isolation.
Since August 2024, the LSAT itself has a simplified structure: two scored Logical Reasoning sections, one scored Reading Comprehension section, and one unscored variable section, with Logic Games removed entirely. Argumentative Writing is now a separate, unscored, online-proctored writing sample submitted apart from the multiple-choice test. Because Gonzaga (like nearly every ABA school) considers your highest LSAT score, a retake strategy is usually rational if your first score sits meaningfully below the 155 median — moving from a 153 to a 158 doesn't just change your position in the applicant pool, it can change which scholarship band you land in, given how directly Gonzaga's grant tiers track LSAT and GPA.
A practical way to think about where to aim: if your numbers already sit above the 75th percentile (158 LSAT / 3.76 GPA), your file is likely to be read as strong on the numeric side, freeing your personal statement and letters to do the work of showing fit and direction rather than compensating for a gap. If you're below the 25th percentile on either metric, addenda explaining a specific dip (a difficult semester, a change in major, a retake with a clear upward trend) are worth including — reviewers generally want context, not excuses. If you're in the middle band, around the 155/3.55 medians, the rest of the file — work experience, writing sample, letters that speak to specific strengths rather than generic praise — carries more relative weight because your numbers alone won't separate you from a large share of the applicant pool.
For the mechanics of building an LSAT study plan — how many months to budget, how to use official practice tests, when a retake is worth the time — see our LSAT prep guide rather than treating test strategy as school-specific; the test itself is identical everywhere, only the target scores differ. What is Gonzaga-specific is the target: aim for 155+ to sit at or above median, and treat 158+ as the number that meaningfully changes your position in the scholarship conversation described above, since only about 2% of aided students reach the full-tuition tier.
Gonzaga's application runs through LSAC like every other ABA-accredited law school, and the data pack for this guide does not include a published deadline or application fee — check Gonzaga Law's admissions page directly for the current cycle's dates and fee before you apply, since these details change year to year. Gonzaga accepts the LSAT as its admissions test; the pack does not indicate GRE acceptance, so confirm on the school's site if you're weighing that option.
Most ABA-accredited law schools, Gonzaga included, admit on a rolling basis: files are reviewed as they become complete rather than all at once after a single deadline, which means applying earlier in the cycle generally means a larger share of seats and scholarship dollars are still available, even though it does not change whether any individual applicant is admitted. For the general shape of the law school calendar — when LSAT scores post, when letters of recommendation are typically due, how CAS reports work — see our application timeline guide, since that mechanism is the same across schools.
A complete Gonzaga file follows the standard components: LSAT score(s) and CAS-reported transcripts, a personal statement, letters of recommendation, and a resume; some applicants also submit optional addenda to explain a specific academic or testing anomaly. Beyond the numeric anchors on the previous LSAT/GPA discussion, reviewers use the personal statement and letters to assess writing ability, judgment, and fit — qualities the numbers alone don't capture. Gonzaga also offers an accelerated two-year J.D. track and several joint-degree options (J.D./MBA, J.D./M.Acc., J.D./M.S.Tax, J.D./M.S.W.) and a 3+3 fast-track program with partner undergraduate programs; applicants interested in any of these should flag that intent early, since joint-degree and accelerated tracks typically involve separate applications or advising conversations alongside the standard J.D. file.
For an applicant who genuinely intends to practice in Washington, Idaho, or the broader Inland Northwest, Gonzaga's economics work out very differently than they would for someone chasing a national Big Law career — and the honest answer depends almost entirely on which of those two paths you're on.
Gonzaga's published estimate for full-time cost of attendance is $75,892 a year — tuition of $57,962, mandatory fees of $825, and an off-campus living estimate of $17,105. Multiplied across three years with no tuition increase, that's roughly $227,700 in sticker cost, though tuition tends to rise year over year, so treat that three-year figure as a floor, not a forecast. Under the federal loan rules taking effect for new borrowers in 2026-27, the Direct Unsubsidized loan a law student can draw is capped at $50,000 per year and $200,000 in aggregate — Grad PLUS, which used to fill any gap between the federal cap and your actual cost, is gone for new borrowers. That $50,000 annual cap roughly matches Gonzaga's $75,892 sticker COA only after aid closes the difference; anyone paying full freight would need private loans, savings, or family support to cover the rest, and should verify current federal loan figures before committing (see our federal loan and PSLF primer).
Substantially, for most admitted students. Gonzaga reports that 98% of its students receive some grant aid, with a median award of $32,000 — which, against a roughly $58,000 tuition line, cuts a large share of the sticker price for a typical student. The distribution matters more than the median: 64% of students land in a "half-to-full-tuition" scholarship band, 32% get less than half tuition covered, and only 2% get a full ride. In practical terms, the bulk of the entering class pays somewhere between roughly a third and all of tuition out of pocket after aid, not the full $58,000 sticker rate — but the 32% in the lower band are the group most exposed to the federal loan-cap math above, since a smaller discount plus a fixed $50,000 annual federal cap can leave a real financing gap that has to be filled with private debt.
Overwhelmingly in Washington and in small-to-midsize practice, not in national Big Law. Gonzaga's own reporting lists Washington as its largest employment destination for graduates, and the firm-size breakdown backs that up: approximately 21.2% of employed graduates land at firms of 1-10 attorneys, another 11.6% at firms of 11-25, and only 2.5% (5 graduates) go to the 501+-attorney "Big Law" tier that anchors the six-figure-plus end of the national salary curve described in general labor-market data. Government work (17.2%) and public interest (12.1%) together account for close to 30% of the class, and the school also places graduates into 2 federal and 13 state/local clerkships. Overall, 79.8% of graduates land in jobs that are full-time, long-term, and either require bar passage or make good use of a J.D. That profile — heavy in small firm, government, and public-interest work, light in Big Law — is exactly what you'd expect from a school whose primary market is the Inland Northwest rather than a national legal-hiring hub like New York or D.C.
Yes, and by a meaningful margin over the state as a whole. Gonzaga's first-time bar passage rate is 85.85%, against a Washington state average of 81.96% for the same testing period, and its two-year ultimate passage rate is 92.74%. Washington administers the Uniform Bar Exam, so a Gonzaga graduate's score is portable to other UBE jurisdictions within each state's transfer rules — useful if your Northwest plans stretch into Idaho, Oregon, or another UBE state. A first-time pass rate running several points above the state average is a genuine signal that the school's bar preparation is doing real work for its graduates, which matters more than usual here given how loan-cap math punishes a delayed bar admission and a second attempt.
The case for "yes" rests on three pieces of the pack lining up consistently: Gonzaga is the dominant regional feeder into Washington practice, its bar outcomes beat the state average, and its aid system pushes most students well below sticker price. If your target is a small or midsize Spokane, Tri-Cities, or Eastern Washington firm, a government office, or a clerkship — the actual destinations for roughly three-quarters of the class — the discounted net price (median grant of $32,000 against roughly $58,000 tuition) is a defensible bet, especially paying close attention to which scholarship band an offer falls into before enrolling.
The case for "no," or at least "be careful," applies if your goal is a national Big Law salary. Only 2.5% of the class — 5 graduates — reaches a 501+-attorney firm, the segment that anchors the roughly $215,000 first-year salary peak referenced in national placement data; the rest of the salary distribution for a school this size clusters well below that peak, and the pack does not report firm-specific or median salary figures for Gonzaga graduates, so exact numbers should not be assumed. For that outcome, the sticker-versus-aid math above needs to be weighed against a smaller and less certain slice of the class, not the majority destination. And whichever path you're on, remember that the federal Standard repayment plan earns no PSLF credit — only the income-driven RAP plan does — so a graduate heading into one of Gonzaga's government or public-interest placements (about 29% of the class combined) who wants forgiveness eligibility needs to actively choose RAP rather than defaulting into Standard.