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 educational environment that integrates rigorous inquiry and scholarship, creative imagination, 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 orientation 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 contributions 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
Admission Considerations:
Secondary school GPA (Required), Secondary school record (Required), Completion of college-prepatory program (Recommended), Recommendations (Required), Admission test scores (Required), TOEFL (Test of English as a Foreign Language) (Required)
Test Scores (2006) :
25th Percentile
75th Percentile
SAT Critical Reading
550
650
SAT Math
570
670
SAT Writing
ACT Composite
24
28
ACT English
ACT Math
Notes:
25th Percentile = 25% of students scored at or below
75th Percentile = 25% of students scored above
Tuition and Fees :
Undergraduate Academic Year Cost:
2005-2006
2006-2007
2007-2008
Tuition and fees
$28,899
$30,900
$33,000
Books and supplies
$1,242
$1,314
$1,386
Room and board (on campus)
$10,032
$10,380
$10,644
Room and board (off campus)
$8,478
$8,909
$9,288
Financial Aid Information:
Financial Aid Office Phone: (408) 554-4505
Percentage of students receiving any financial aid: 81%
Average amount of types of financial aid received from:
Federal Grants: $5,220
State/Local Grants: $9,065
Institutional Grants: $11,448
Student Loans: $5,460
