What is it like to major in something that isn’t stem or business at SCU?
While visiting campus, I noticed that the school seemed very oriented towards engineering and business students (ie construction of a new engineering campus, all three of my tour guides were stem majors, bragging about engineering internships). This is understandable given SCU’s location in Silicon Valley, but I worry that SCU undervalues their liberal arts students and does not provide them with as many opportunities. I’ll be going for a liberal arts major, likely political science, in college, so that would be a concern.
Are there any current SCU liberal arts majors here that could tell me about their experience? Are you able to find internships? Does the career center help you? Are liberal arts related clubs strong?
https://www.payscale.com/college-salary-report/best-schools-by-majors/humanities
According PayScale Humanity Major Salary Ranking, SCU ranks 23th in the country. It’s better than many famous colleges. When you consider SCU admits more B-students than elite schools, you will feel SCU is truly a good school.
History, Econ, and Political Science are pretty strong at Santa Clara. We’re not talking about Georgetown but there should not be any issues.
Besides the career center, the departments within the school also help with internships. Professors help with them as well. Each department takes pride in their piece of the world at SCU. My CSE student is double majoring with an LA major and that department has been like a second family. Through that department, mine got this crazy cool offer for a special program (some education/some work) back east this summer. Liberal arts is in no way viewed negatively. It’s a different SCU than your parent’s SCU, heck even from ten years ago. Never thought I would send one there (offer to good to turn down and engineering tour sold us) but it has been so enlightening to do so. I totally under-rated it for years. It’s not perfect, but it has come a long way in more than just engineering and really established itself as force in more areas of study. You can get a whole lot out of it because it’s easy to form relationships with professors and staff there, and they are happy to do things for you. I think the posts by @oldbay+boh were super helpful in the thread they started and relate to your situation.