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The applications for Winter intake at Santa Clara University open on Oct 1, 2023, and close on Oct 15, 2023. 

Situated in Santa Clara, California, the SCU campus is spread across 106 acres. The campus houses over 50 buildings including modern classrooms, well-equipped research laboratories, the Mission Santa Clara de Asis, a huge library, a spacious television studio, the Centre of Performing Arts, and the de Saisset Museum. With ten comfortable and spacious residence halls, students are provided with excellent accommodation options. Apart from these amenities, it also offers extensive facilities for various sports like basketball, baseball, soccer, golf, tennis, volleyball, and softball.

SCU's six colleges and schools offer numerous undergraduate and graduate programs in various fields of education like anthropology, sciences, communication, computer science, economics, engineering, mathematics, languages, arts, psychology, business, law, and theology. Currently, it enrolls over 9,000 students including a huge population of foreign students from across the world. About 62 percent of undergraduates are from California, with the others coming from throughout the United States and 44 countries. The University has an average class size of 23 students and the student to faculty ratio measures 10:1.

The university houses an excellent team of more than 500 experienced and qualified faculty members. It also offers opportunities for various student-exchange and study abroad programs through its collaborations with a number of well-established educational institutions across the globe such as Australian Catholic University in Australia, the University of Vienna in Austria, KU Leuven in Belgium, Universidad Alberto Hurtado in Chile, Lanzhou University in China, Bucerius Law School in Germany and Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Delhi in India.

SCU has more than 103,700 living alumni worldwide including several distinguished people. Andy Ackerman is a successful TV producer and director known for his work like 'Seinfeld', 'Frasier' and 'Whitney,' as well as holding three primetime Emmy Awards, two Directors Guild Awards, and one Golden Globe Award. Michelle Ashford is the screenwriter for 'The Pacific' of HBO and 'Masters of Sex' of Showtime. Jeff Brazil is a celebrated journalist who has served as Los Angeles Times editor and writer and holds a Pulitzer Prize, Worth Bingham Prize, and Scripps Howard Award. Alex Austin is the CEO and co-founder of Branch Metrics. Robin is a lead engineer at NASA AMES Research Centre. Brendan Eich is the creator of JavaScript.