Santa Clara University
UNIVERSITY MISSION
Santa Clara University is a Catholic and Jesuit institution that makes student learning its central focus, promotes faculty and staff learning in its various forms, and exhibits organizational learning as it deals with the challenges facing it.
Student learning takes place at the undergraduate and graduate level in an educa�tional environment that integrates rigorous inquiry and scholarship, creative imagi�nation, reflective engagement with society, and a commitment to fashioning a more humane and just world.
As an academic community, we expand the boundaries of knowledge and insight through teaching, research, artistic expression, and other forms of scholarship. It is primarily through discovering, communicating, and applying knowledge that we exercise our institutional responsibility as a voice of reason and conscience in society.
We offer challenging academic programs and demonstrate a commitment to the development of:
Undergraduate students who seek an education with a strong humanistic orien�tation in a primarily residential setting.
Graduate students, many of them working professionals in Silicon Valley, who seek advanced degree programs that prepare them to make significant contribu�tions to their fields.
In addition to these core programs, we also provide a variety of continuing education and professional development opportunities for nonmatriculated students.
Santa Clara University
Approved by the Board of Trustees
February 20, 1998
Santa Clara University is a private, co-educational Jesuit-affiliated university located in Santa Clara, California. Chartered by the state of California and accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges, it operates in collaboration with the Society of Jesus (Jesuits), whose members founded the school in 1851. Santa Clara is the oldest operating institution of higher learning in California and the oldest Catholic university in the American West. It is one of 28 member institutions of the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities.
The university is situated in Santa Clara, California (pop. 104,000), adjacent to the city of San Jose, California in Santa Clara County (pop. 1.8 million), which anchors the southern part of the San Francisco Bay Area. Also known by the abbreviation SCU, its students and 71,000 alumni are called “Santa Clarans” and its athletics teams are called the Broncos. In many of its informational and promotional publications the school is billed as "The Jesuit University in Silicon Valley."
Built around historic Mission Santa Clara, the present university is home to a population of nearly 5,000 undergraduate and 3,500 masters, J.D., and Ph.D. students. The institution employs over 450 full time faculty members, who are divided between four professional schools and the College of Arts and Sciences, all of which are located on the 104 acre (0.4 km²) mission campus. For the 2007–2008 academic year, the university's operating budget was $293 million, and the university's endowment was over $697 million. For the same period, undergraduate tuition and fees was $34,950 and the average cost of room and board was $11,067.
Santa Clara is civilly chartered and governed by a board of trustees, which appoints the president. By internal statute, the president must be a member of the Jesuit order, although the membership of the board is primarily lay. About forty Jesuit priests and brothers are active teachers and administrators in various departments and centers. Jesuits comprise around seven percent of the permanent faculty and hold teaching positions in biology, computer engineering, counseling psychology, economics, English, history, law, philosophy, physics, political science, psychology, religious studies, and theater arts. They also serve in campus ministry and residence-hall ministry, and some act as faculty directors in residential learning communities.
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| Percent of Students International: | 7% |
| On-Campus Housing Available: | Yes |
| Percent of Students Living On-Campus: | 32% |
| Freshman Students Required to Live on Campus: | No |
| Member of: | NAA, NCAA |
| Sports Include: |
Basketball (West Coast Conference) Baseball (West Coast Conference) Track (West Coast Conference) |
| Tuition & Fees (undergraduate) | Expenses | ||
Average Tuition for Full-Time Undergrads: |
$ 28,899 | ||
| Financial Aid | Avg. Amount Received | % of Students Receiving Aid | |
Federal Grants: |
$ 3,703 | 12% | |
State and Local Grants: |
$ 6,403 | 30% | |
Institutional Grants: |
$ 13,198 | 56% | |
Student Loans: |
$ 4,505 | 38% | |
Any Aid: |
66% |
| Acceptance Rate: | 57% (Highly Selective) |
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| % of Students Submitting SAT Scores: | 95% |
| Bottom 25th Percentile: | Verbal: 550, Math: 560 |
| Top 75th Percentile: | Verbal: 640, Math: 660 |
| Application Fee: | $ 55.00 |
| Formal Demonstration of Competencies: | Not Required |
| High School Diploma or Equivalent: | Recommended |
| High School GPA: | Required |
| High School Rank: | Not Required |
| High School Record: | Required |
| Recommendations: | Required |
| TOEFL: | Required |
| Test Scores: | Required |
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This is what I have heard, I do not know how they stand in terms of academics, but they are better than the CSUs? and not quite UC level or IVy- league right?
What are your thoughts on it?
21 months ago
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All i know is a very good friend of mine went there for undergrad engineering and completed her degree without any problems and got a job at motorola right away. I have heard thought that its a bit strict on discipline than others but that's just rumors.
It's best to know what you want from a university. One uni rarely offers everything for every type of person.
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i'm not american...i'm going to study english before the university
I'm italian
26 months ago
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It is a beautiful campus! Very small, easy to get around. Safe and nice environment. Weather is warm from April to October, cool and rainy in the winter. There are a lot of parties on Wednesday, Friday and Saturday nights... It can be noisy at times. Most of the students are nice, some are stuck up. Lots of rich kids (I'm not one of them)!
Some of the classes are difficult. Some are easier. It depends on who you have for a professor and also what the class is about. I am an average student and I am doing just fine.
They have a good foreign exchange program too. I have two French students living in an apartment with me and they like it a lot here so far.
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I do not know my major. Any info will help. I award 10 points to best one.
32 months ago
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I have answered this earlier and I am repeating it:
Santa Clara is a private institution as such expensive.It also implies that whether you are a California resident or not the fee charged will be same and no 'In State' fee option is available.It costs $30,900 per year to study here.It's most popular undergraduate major is Business Management.It's location is suburban.It is associated with Roman Catholic Church Society of Jesus and has about 5000 UG students.
UC Irvine is a public university. Meaning thereby that it offers 'Instate Fee' option:
In-state tuition & fees $6,770
Out-of-state tuition & fees $24,590
UCI has about 19000 UG student enrollment.
The most popular UG major is Social Sciences.
UCI has a better ranking. It's graduate programs computer science has good reputation.
Good Luck
NBS
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I do not know my major. Any info will help. I award 10 points to best one.
32 months ago
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My daughter went to SCU and loved it. Quality education, good social groups and a ton of fun. UCI's having a bunch of trouble and controversy these days.
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