The Place to Be

Beauty and Brains: Santa Clara received some well-earned pub for professional outcomes and campus aesthetics.

Santa Clara grads get their money’s worth, according to PayScale, Inc. Mid-career salaries for undergrad SCU alumni now rank in the country’s top 2 percent, according to the 2016–17 report. Narrow in, and alumni with business degrees rank in the top 1 percent, earning a median $124,000—a figure topped by alumni of only two schools in the country.

Quad Goals

The Mission Gardens offer a peace hard to come by: the pendent wisteria, the well-tended roses can transform even emails into poetry. These grounds—still shouldering adobe from the late-18th century—were recently named the No. 1 most beautiful campus quad in the country by College Rank. We concur.

From Scratch

The new leader of SCU’s adolescent mental health concentration wants to design better mental healthcare delivery systems to help more kids, now.

Green Is the New Black

Leaders in sustainable fashion shared career advice with student designers at SCU’s popular EcoFashion Show.

Hop 2 It

How do you get from hops to beer? Sustainability interns found out by turning hops grown at SCU’s Forge Garden into “Forge Ahead,” an English-style pale ale.

Racking Up

Tess Heal ’26 is nabbing awards left and right thanks to a stellar freshman year with Santa Clara women’s basketball.