Santa Clara University

Santa Clara University

Santa Clara University is a comprehensive Jesuit, Catholic university located in the heart of Silicon Valley with approximately 8,800 students. The University offers a rigorous undergraduate curriculum in arts and sciences, business, and engineering, plus nationally recognized graduate and professional programs in business, education, engineering, counseling psychology, law, and pastoral ministries.

In 2009, for the 20th consecutive year, U.S. News & World Report ranked Santa Clara University second for overall academic quality among 115 master’s universities in the West. The University sustains its high national reputation by offering a strong core curriculum, integrated learning environment, and research opportunities for all undergraduate students.

SCU has the highest freshmen retention rate of master’s universities in the West, and the second highest graduation rate among all U.S. master’s degree universities. The Master of Business Administration (MBA) program in the Leavey School of Business is annually ranked among the nation’s top part-time programs. The School of Law is ranked in the top 100 of the nation’s law schools with its intellectual property program recognized among the top 10 of such programs in the country.

Santa Clara University’s diverse community of scholars, characterized by small classes and a values-oriented curriculum, is dedicated to educating students for competence, conscience, and compassion. California’s oldest operating higher education institution demonstrates faith-inspired values of ethics and social justice. The traditions of Jesuit education—educating the whole person for a life of service—run deep in all of its curricular and co-curricular programs.

In March 2008, the University opened the $81 million Harrington Learning Commons, Sobrato Technology Center, and Orradre Library, a new resource center that anchors the palm-studded 106-acre campus and serves as the intellectual heart of the University. In fall 2008, the University opened an 86,000-square-foot building called Lucas Hall that houses the business school.