Our academic programs and performance garner impressive national rankings and recognitions every year from U.S. News & World Report, Businessweek, The Princeton Review, NSSE, and others, and we receive many academic awards and accolades for our community involvement and sustainability efforts, as well as our graduate outcomes.
Read on to find out more about the honors and recognitions the SCU has received in the last year.
Rankings
U.S. News and World Report
"America's Best Colleges 2011"
Undergraduate
- Overall ranking: No. 2 in the West.
- Undergraduate graduation rate (85%) third highest in the country among master's universities.
- Highest average freshman retention rate (93%) of master's universities in the West.
- School of Engineering ranked No. 17 among the engineering schools in the nation
- where the highest degree awarded is a bachelors or masters.
US News and World Report
"America's Best Graduate Schools 2011"
Business
- Part-Time MBA program ranked No. 35 in nation.
Law
- School of Law ranked in the top 100 law schools in the country.
- Recognized as one of the most diverse student populations of any US law school.
Kiplinger’s Personal Finance Magazine
- Santa Clara University ranks 44th in best value among private universities nationwide (December 2011).
Princeton Review
- SCU named one of the nation’s best institutions for undergraduate education in the 2012 annual guidebook, “The Best 376 Colleges.”
Businessweek
- The undergraduate business program at Santa Clara University ranks No. 35 in the nation, according to 'The Best Undergraduate B-schools' 2011 list.
Forbes magazine
- Santa Clara University jumped to No. 67 in Forbes' America's Best (undergraduate) College list for 2011. In the previous year, SCU was ranked 115, and in 2009, the University's ranking was No. 150. In the 2008 inaugural edition, SCU was 318.
National Survey of Student Engagement
- The National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE) is the most comprehensive assessment of effective practice in higher education and includes data from nearly 370,000 randomly selected first-year and senior students at 640 four-year college and universities in the U.S. and Canada.
- In the five main benchmarks, SCU surpasses the national averages.
- View our scores from the 2010 NSSE survey.
Recognitions
U.S. Department of Energy’s Solar Decathlon
- In 2009 students from Santa Clara University and California College of the Arts worked together as Team California at the Solar Decathlon and won third place overall.
- Every two years the Department of Energy’s Solar Decathlon features 20 college/university teams from around the world that compete by building an energy-efficient home that’s 100 percent powered by the sun. Read more about our students and their success.
SCU Ranked No. 33 in the U.S. for Return on Investment
- The value of a Santa Clara University education is among the best in the country, according to Payscale, an online site that collects salary data. SCU was ranked No. 33 on list of 554 schools in the 2010 College Return on Investment Report.
National Undergraduate Salary Ranking 2009
- SCU’s undergraduate degree recipients earning among the highest salaries of any U.S. college or university alumni—coming in 20th out of nearly 600 colleges or universities nationwide—according PayScale, a compensation-data company based in Seattle.
President's Honor Roll for Community Service
- Santa Clara named to President Obama’s 2010 Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll for community service programs and student involvement.
Best Places to Work
- SCU is ranked No. 5 in the “big companies” category, for businesses with 501 to 1,500 employees, in the 2011 survey, Best Places to Work in the Bay Area, conducted by the San Francisco Business Times, the Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal.
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
- Santa Clara is recognized as one of the top universities to reduce its carbon footprint, coming in at No. 16 on the EPA’s Top 20 College & University List of green power purchasers in October 2009.
Awards
Fulbright Awards
Three Santa Clara University seniors were awarded Fulbright scholarships to study or teach abroad in the 2010–2011 academic year:
- Megan Williams '10, a political science major, will study at the Centre for East European Studies in Warsaw, Poland. In addition to learning Polish, she will also conduct a research project on student or youth political groups—probably studying the plethora of far-right Polish student groups and why they have proliferated.
- John “Jack” Mahoney '10 will teach English in Indonesia, at one of the country’s hundreds of pesantren, or boarding schools, after having written a thoughtful thesis paper about Islam’s role in democratization of that republic. Mahoney is a political science and religious studies double-degree major, with a minor in Arabic, Islamic, and Middle Eastern studies.
- Jennifer Mock '10, a double major in German and political science with minors in international studies and history, will teach English to middle- or high-school students in Burghausen, Germany. Mock studied abroad her junior year, in Freiberg, Germany, for a month-long intensive language program, in which she was the only American in a group that spoke German as their common language.
Two Santa Clara University seniors and one faculty member were awarded Fulbright scholarships to study or teach abroad in the 2009–2010 academic year:
- Beth Tellman ’09 was recipient of the Fulbright U.S. Student Award. Tellman, who double majored in sustainable globalization and environmental studies, is researching food security for coffee farmers in El Salvador.
- Benjamin Snyder ’09, who majored in political science, German, and history, was awarded a Fulbright Teacher Assistant Award that took him to Saxony, in the former East Germany, where he is teaching English to secondary school students.
- Simone J. Billings, a senior lecturer in English, was named a Fulbright Scholar. She is working with Open Campus of the University of the West Indies, designing curriculum for writing classes taught in the classroom and online, and running faculty workshops for community colleges in the Caribbean to help them redesign writing programs.
Goldwater Award
- Michael Hayes ’10, a biochemistry major, received a Goldwater Scholarship for demonstrating excellence in the sciences and for his plan to continue his education. The scholarship will go toward tuition and fees during the 2009–10 academic year.
CASE Awards
- Santa Clara University was the most lauded university for the third consecutive year at the Council for Advancement and Support of Education’s (CASE) District VII regional awards ceremony in November 2009.
- SCU received five gold, two silver, and five bronze awards; the Santa Clara Magazine picked up 10 of those, and awards also went to the President’s Report and the Santa Clara Law Magazine.
- CASE District VII includes more than 100 colleges and universities from Arizona, California, Hawaii, Nevada, and Utah.
- For more information, read Santa Clara Wins 12 Awards.
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