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.

Responsible AI

SCU School of Engineering’s new program in responsible artificial intelligence aims to lay the groundwork for a holistic understanding of AI.

Awards Season

Two rising seniors got major national nods for their work in STEM.

Farewell Director

Santa Clara University’s beloved Director of Athletics Renee Baumgartner is stepping down