Santa Clara University (SCU) is a private Jesuit university at the heart of Silicon Valley in the San Francisco Bay Area that is home to of 3500 undergraduates. SCU has a long history of producing distinguished alumni including Leon Panetta (former Secretary of Defense, Director of the CIA, and White House Chief of Staff), Steve Nash (eight-time NBA All-Star, two time NBA MVP), Khaled Hosseini (Best selling novelist and physician), and Janet Napolitano (former Governor of Arizona and United States Secretary of Homeland Security).
