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Santa Clara University

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Santa Clara University is a Jesuit Catholic university in Silicon Valley offering undergraduate and graduate degrees. For more info, visit www.scu.edu.

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Santa Clara University is a comprehensive Jesuit, Catholic university located in California’s Silicon Valley. Santa Clara offers its more than 8,800 students rigorous undergraduate programs in arts, sciences, business, and engineering, plus master’s degrees in a number of professional fields, and doctorates in law, engineering, and theology. Founded in 1851, Santa Clara is California’s oldest operating institution of higher education and is distinguished by one of the highest graduation rates among all master’s universities in the United States. For more information, visit www.scu.edu.

Mission

Santa Clara University educates citizens and leaders of competence, conscience, and compassion and cultivates knowledge and faith to build a more humane, just, and sustainable world. The University pursues its vision by creating an academic community that educates the whole person within the Jesuit, Catholic tradition, making student-learning our central focus, continuously improving our curriculum and co-curriculum, strengthening our scholarships and creative work, and serving our communities in the Silicon Valley and around the world.

Address: 500 El Camino Real, Santa Clara, CA 95053, USA
Phone: (408) 554-4000
State: California
Zip Code: 95053


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my friend goes here and i think she likes it. her nickname is eia, so if you find hear tell i say "hello eia".
9 years ago (20-10-2017)
Santa Clara university is amazing, beautiful architecture, huge campus, lots of on-campus opportunities, diverse crowd, and fitness freak people.
9 years ago (23-10-2017)
Spectacular education. Impressive teaching staff. Gorgeous campus and a class act for a century.
9 years ago (15-07-2017)
After 4 years here as an engineering student, I would NOT recommend Santa Clara at all as a college, and I feel this place is very overrated and overpriced. My advice would be to stay away from this place unless you have a sizable financial aid package, or otherwise stick with the state colleges or UC's. You are defiantly not getting your money's worth at this place! Even as an engineering student, on top of your engineering course work, you are required to take a ton of extra university core related classes that have no relation to your major, and its nothing but a complete waste of time, money, and course credits. You are required to take 3 religious studies classes, one ethics, one diversity, one social science, 3 cultures & ideas, 2 English writing classes, and an experimental learning for social justice class. I know this may be similar at other schools, but other schools like state colleges take AP credit to pass some of these core requirements. Santa Clara does not let you use AP credit to get out of such classes, except for math and science. Charging $45K+ a year, I think this is just ridiculous to forcing students to have to take all these extra classes leaving no room for any other engineering or science related class that students might be interested. The university core class requirements is just way too much in my opinion as a student. Overall, I deeply regret choosing Santa Clara University as the college to spend my 4 years. Don't believe all this hype about small class sizes, in reality all this is all irrelevant. Small class sizes translates to certain classes you need for you major aren't offered year round if you happen to need them, compared to larger schools, and only during certain quarters. Also the upper management of this place cares more about the 'image' rather than concerns from students. SAVE YOU MONEY AND STAY WITH THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS, THIS PLACE CHARGES IVY LEAGUE OR STANFORD LEVELS OF TUITION FOR NOT BEING EITHER OF THOSE SCHOOLS.
10 years ago (16-11-2016)
Nice library. I always come here to study.
9 years ago (23-08-2017)
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