Santa Clara University is a private not-for-profit Jesuit university located in Silicon Valley in Santa Clara, California. Founded in 1851, Santa Clara University is the oldest operating institution of higher learning in California. The university is situated in Santa Clara, California, adjacent to the city of San Jose in Santa Clara County in the southern part of the San Francisco Bay Area. It is known by the abbreviation SCU; its students and 71,000 alumni are called "Santa Clarans" and its athletics teams are called the Broncos. The school is promoted as "the Jesuit university in Silicon... Valley." Built around historic Mission Santa Clara, the present university is home to a population of nearly 5,000 undergraduate and 3,500 Master's, Juris Doctor, and PhD students. The institution employs over 450 full-time faculty members, who are divided between four professional schools and the College of Arts and Sciences, all of which are located on the 106-acre mission campus. In July 2009 the Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley , formerly an independent institution, legally merged with the university, taking the name "Jesuit School of Theology of Santa Clara University.
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