Founded in 1851, Santa Clara University sits in the heart of Silicon Valley—the world’s most innovative and entrepreneurial region. The campus houses the historic Mission Santa Clara de Asís. Ranked the No. 1 regional university in the West by U.S. News & World Report in 2018, SCU has among the best four-year graduation rates in the nation and is rated by PayScale in the top 1 percent of universities with the highest-paid graduates. With undergraduate programs in arts and sciences, business, and engineering, and six graduate programs, the curriculum blends high-tech innovation with social consciousness grounded in the Jesuit tradition.