{"id":446815,"date":"2026-08-29T03:22:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-29T03:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/446815\/"},"modified":"2026-08-29T03:22:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-29T03:22:08","slug":"news-news-events-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/446815\/","title":{"rendered":"News &#8211; News &#038; Events"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SANTA CLARA, Calif., Aug. 28, 2026\u2014In a sign of Santa Clara University\u2019s continued success in student outcomes, career readiness, and experiential and values-driven learning, the University has secured a top 10% spot in <a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/article\/2026\/08\/25\/americas-best-colleges-2027\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">TIME Magazine&#8217;s America&#8217;s Best Colleges of 2026-2027 list.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The ranking, which placed Santa Clara at No. 29 nationally, is the publication\u2019s inaugural list of the top 500 colleges in the U.S.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Building on this high ranking, Santa Clara University also placed as the No. 2 best Jesuit university in the nation, No. 6 best college in the West, the No. 23 best private university, and the No. 3 best Catholic university.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis latest ranking by TIME is a testament to what sets Santa Clara apart: our commitment to educating the whole person and an exceptional student experience,\u201d said James M. Glaser, Santa Clara University provost and executive vice president. \u201cSanta Clara combines rigorous academics and real-world experiential learning with a focus on student development, grounded in our Jesuit tradition of ethical leadership. In this way, we prepare our students not only to thrive in top-tier careers\u2014especially here in the heart of Silicon Valley\u2014but also to help shape a more humane, just, and sustainable world.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Among the criteria used by TIME, Santa Clara is distinguished by its<\/p>\n<p>TIME\u2019s ranking comes on the heels of strong showings in other recent national rankings including:<\/p>\n<p>Princeton Review\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>No. 13 \u2014 Best Career Placement<br \/>\nNo. 17 \u2014 Best Science Lab Facilities<br \/>\nNo. \u00a036 \u2014 Top Green Colleges\u00a0<br \/>392 colleges, issued Aug. 2026<\/p>\n<p>U.S. News Best Colleges<\/p>\n<p>No. 14 \u2014 Entrepreneurship<br \/>\nNo. 23 \u2014 Best Undergraduate Teaching<br \/>\nNo. 59 \u00a0\u2014Best National Universities<br \/>More than 1,700 U.S. colleges and universities, Sept. 2025<\/p>\n<p>Forbes America\u2019s Top Colleges\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>No. 12 \u2014 Top 25 Colleges with Highest Earning Graduates<br \/>\nNo. 16 \u2014 Top Colleges in the West<br \/>\nNo. 16 \u2014 Best Employers for New Grads 2026<br \/>\nNo. 43 \u2014 Top Private Colleges<br \/>\nNo. 51 \u2014 Research Universities<br \/>\nNo. 65 (Top 15%) \u2014 Top Colleges 2026<br \/>500 colleges, issued August 2025<\/p>\n<p>About Santa Clara University<br \/>Founded in 1851, Santa Clara University sits in the heart of Silicon Valley \u2014 the world\u2019s most innovative and entrepreneurial region. The University\u2019s stunningly landscaped 106-acre campus is home to the historic Mission Santa Clara de As\u00eds. Ranked among the top 15 percent of national universities by U.S. News &amp; World Report, Santa Clara 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. The University has produced elite levels of Fulbright Scholars as well as four Rhodes Scholars. With undergraduate programs in arts and sciences, business, and engineering, and graduate programs in six disciplines, the curriculum blends high-tech innovation with social consciousness grounded in the tradition of Jesuit, Catholic education.<\/p>\n<p>Media Contact<br \/>Deborah Lohse | Santa Clara University Media Communications | dlohse@scu.edu | 408-554-5121<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SANTA CLARA, Calif., Aug. 28, 2026\u2014In a sign of Santa Clara University\u2019s continued success in student outcomes, career&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":446816,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[88,90,89],"class_list":["post-446815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=446815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446815\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/446816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}