Santa Clara University Leavey School of Business

Santa Clara University Leavey School of Business
Name	Leavey School of Business
Established	1923
Type	Private
Parent	Santa Clara University
City	Santa Clara
State	California
Country	United States
Dean	Nora L. Silver
Students	2,500 (approx.)

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Santa Clara University Leavey School of Business The Leavey School of Business is the business college at Santa Clara University, located in Silicon Valley near San Jose, California, Stanford University, and San Francisco. Founded in the early 20th century, the school emphasizes Jesuit values alongside links to technology, entrepreneurship, and finance through partnerships with organizations such as Intel Corporation, Google, Apple Inc., Cisco Systems, and Facebook. Its programs draw students interested in careers at firms including Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Deloitte, PricewaterhouseCoopers, and Ernst & Young.

History

The Leavey School of Business originated during the 1920s alongside institutions like University of California, Berkeley, University of Pennsylvania (Wharton School), and Harvard Business School as business education expanded in the United States. Over decades it forged Bay Area ties to corporations such as Hewlett-Packard, Agilent Technologies, Oracle Corporation, Adobe Inc., and eBay. During the late 20th century the school adapted curricula influenced by trends at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Sloan), Columbia Business School, and Kellogg School of Management, while collaborating with nonprofit partners including Silicon Valley Community Foundation and United Way Bay Area. Endowments and gifts from families and foundations comparable to those supporting Wharton and Booth School of Business enabled construction projects and scholarship programs, with notable donors from firms like Levi Strauss & Co. and executives connected to Chevron Corporation. The school’s leadership engaged with accreditation bodies such as Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business amid expansion of MBA offerings and undergraduate majors, responding to workforce shifts exemplified by companies like Tesla, Inc. and Netflix.

Leavey offers undergraduate and graduate degrees including Bachelor of Science, MBA, MS, and executive programs paralleling curricula from Stanford Graduate School of Business, UC Berkeley Haas School of Business, and Northwestern University. Majors and concentrations connect students to fields relevant to firms like Salesforce, PayPal, Square, Inc., Snap Inc., and LinkedIn. Faculty research cites journals such as The Journal of Finance, Management Science, and Harvard Business Review and includes collaborations with scholars from University of Chicago Booth School of Business, Yale School of Management, and INSEAD. Programs emphasize experiential learning through partnerships with entities like NASA Ames Research Center, City of San Jose, California State Legislature, and Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco. Dual-degree arrangements mirror agreements found between Columbia University and London Business School for cross-disciplinary study in analytics, marketing, finance, and entrepreneurship. Curriculum features case studies involving corporations such as Toyota Motor Corporation, Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase, Boeing, and Procter & Gamble.

The school houses research centers and institutes modeled after think tanks like Hoover Institution, Brookings Institution, and National Bureau of Economic Research. Notable units collaborate with Silicon Valley actors such as Plug and Play Tech Center, Y Combinator, 500 Startups, Bay Area Council, and Santa Clara County Office of Education. Centers focus on entrepreneurship, sustainable business, and technology management, engaging stakeholders similar to World Bank, International Monetary Fund, and United Nations Development Programme. They host speaker series with executives from Intel Capital, Sequoia Capital, Kleiner Perkins, Accel Partners, and Benchmark and organize competitions akin to those run by Hult Prize and MIT $100K Entrepreneurship Competition.

Student organizations at Leavey mirror clubs at peer schools such as Harvard Business School and Kellogg and include chapters of national groups like Beta Gamma Sigma, Society for Human Resource Management, and Association of Latino Professionals For America. Career networking events attract recruiters from McKinsey & Company, Boston Consulting Group, Bain & Company, Accenture, and Capgemini. Student-run investment funds simulate operations at BlackRock, Vanguard Group, and Fidelity Investments. Cultural and affinity groups maintain connections to organizations such as National Society of Hispanic MBAs, Consortium for Graduate Study in Management, and National Black MBA Association. Extracurricular competitions bring students into contact with case competitions hosted by Deloitte Consulting, PwC Strategy&, KPMG, and EY-Parthenon.

The Leavey complex sits on Santa Clara University’s campus near landmarks like Mission Santa Clara de Asís, Levi's Stadium, and Great America (Amusement Park). Facilities include classrooms, collaborative labs, and conference centers comparable to those at Stanford Graduate School of Business and UC Berkeley Haas. Tech-enabled spaces support partnerships with Google Cloud, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and NVIDIA for data analytics and machine learning initiatives. The campus connects to regional transit hubs such as Mineta San Jose International Airport, San Francisco International Airport, Caltrain, and Bay Area Rapid Transit. Student housing and dining coexist with campus resources including Santa Clara University Library, Bellarmine College Preparatory collaborations, and athletic facilities used by teams competing in the West Coast Conference.

The school maintains accreditation from the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business and aligns outcomes with standards referenced by rankings from publications and organizations like U.S. News & World Report, Princeton Review, Forbes, The Economist (newspaper), and Bloomberg Businessweek. Employment statistics often cite placements at firms such as Adobe Systems, Visa Inc., Mastercard, Intel Corporation, and Apple Inc.. Graduate outcomes and program quality are benchmarked against peer institutions including USC Marshall School of Business, UCLA Anderson School of Management, University of Washington Foster School of Business, and University of Notre Dame Mendoza College of Business.