Santa Clara University

What Makes Our Santa Clara Graduates Unique?

• Academic Excellence

  The Princeton Review named Santa Clara University one of the nation’s best institutions for undergraduate education in the 2011 annual guidebook, “The Best 373 Colleges.”

  US News and World Report 2011 ranked Santa Clara University as #2 among 134 master's universities in the West.

• Professional Readiness

  70% of SCU students have at least one internship before they graduate.

• Rigorous, Values Based Jesuit Education

  As a Jesuit university and California's oldest-operating institution of higher education, SCU is committed to educating leaders of competence, conscience, and compassion who will help fashion a more just, humane, and sustainable world.

• Global Understanding and Engagement

  Only fifteen percent of American college students study abroad, yet 40-60% of the Junior class study abroad each year in one of the 106 program locations around the world in over 50 countries. In addition to studying abroad, our students participate in international immersion trips and international fellowships.