
	Santa Clara University, a comprehensive Jesuit, Catholic university located 40 miles south of San Francisco in California&rsquo;s Silicon Valley, offers its more than 8,800 students rigorous undergraduate curricula in arts and sciences, business, theology, and engineering, plus master&rsquo;s and law degrees and engineering Ph.D.s. Distinguished nationally by one of the highest graduation rates among all U.S. master&rsquo;s universities, California&rsquo;s oldest operating higher-education institution demonstrates faith-inspired values of ethics and social justice.
	
	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 scholarship and creative work, and serving the communities of which we are a part in Silicon Valley and around the world.
	
	Santa Clara University will educate citizens and leaders of competence, conscience, and compassion and cultivate knowledge and faith to build a more humane, just, and sustainable world.
