The University pursues its vision by creating an academic community that educates the whole person within the Jesuit, Catholic tradition, making student learning our focus, continuously improving our curriculum, and serving the communities of Silicon Valley and around the world. Santa Clara University, a comprehensive Jesuit, Catholic university located in Californias Silicon Valley, offers its approximately 8,400 students rigorous undergraduate curricula in arts and sciences, business, and engineering, plus masters, Ph.D., and law degrees. Distinguished nationally by the fourth-highest graduation rate among all U.S. masters universities, Californias oldest operating higher-education institution demonstrates faith-inspired values of ethics and social justice.