Rankings & Accolades

But rankings tell only part of the story; we want you to apply to SCU because it's the right fit for you, not because of what a magazine says about us.

Santa Clara University

U.S. News & World Report

• Ranked No. 54 in the 2020 "Best National Universities" list
• Ranked No. 23 best undergraduate teaching

Forbes

• Ranked No. 51 out of "650 Top Colleges" in 2020 

The Wall Street Journal/Times Higher Education 

• No. 87 out of more than 800 U.S. colleges and universities in 2020

Payscale

• Ranked No. 22 among U.S. colleges on the 2019-20 "Best Universities for a Bachelor's Degree" list

Leavey School of Business

U.S. News & World Report

• Undergraduate Business Programs is ranked No. 67
• Undergraduate accounting program is ranked No. 44
• Undergraduate entrepreneurship program is ranked No. 12
• Executive MBA Program is ranked No. 13
• Part-time MBA Program is ranked No. 20
• MBA Specialty in Finance is ranked No. 26
• MBA Specialty in Business Analytics is ranked No. 15
• MBA Specialty in Entrepreneurship is ranked No. 30
• Online MBA Program is ranked No. 40
• Online MBA Program in Finance is ranked No. 10
• Online MBA Program in Marketing is ranked No. 12

Poets & Quants

• Undergraduate business program is ranked No. 25
• Online MBA Program is ranked No. 3 (No. 1 in Career Outcomes and No. 1 in Academic Experience)
• Executive MBA is ranked No. 28

Princeton Review

• Online MBA Program is ranked No. 9

Fortune

• Part-time MBA Program is ranked No. 16
• Executive MBA is ranked No. 25
• Online MBA Program is ranked No. 15

School of Law

U.S. News & World Report

• The Intellectual Property Law Program is ranked No. 4
• The Part-Time Law Program is ranked No. 40
• The International Law Program is ranked No. 28

Career Center

Princeton Review 

• The University's Career Center is ranked No. 16 among all U.S. private colleges and universities, based on student ratings and PayScale.com's salary information for recent graduates.