What's up guys, I'm Ferrari
with YOUniversityTV.
I'm here at St. Mary's
College of California,
a Lasallian institute
based on the teachings
of St. Jean-Baptiste
de la Salle.
This is the man right here,
and I figured this was a good
place to start our tour,
so let's go!
St. Mary's College of California
is located in the beautiful town
of Moraga, California.
It's very picturesque, I've--
when I came here
for my interview,
my first thought
was it looked like
an Italian villa.
It just has this beautiful
architecture,
just the rolling green hills.
It's 30 minutes by BART
to the city.
So you can get kind of
this nice, small school charm,
and then go immediately
off to the city
and do what you
want to do.
San Francisco's really close
and it's really good networking,
um, with us in the Bay Area,
and a lot of graduates
and alum go there.
Just a good place for
opportunity and lots of jobs.
St. Mary's sits on 420 acres
of residential campus
in the rolling hills with
Mission style architecture
and a picturesque setting.
St. Mary's California enrolls
2,500 undergrads,
40% men and 60% women.
The average class
size is 20,
with a student-to-faculty
ratio of 11:1.
So here we're creating
a sense of community.
We're very much a campus
community where students
get to know other students,
they know administrators,
they know faculty.
So it's more of
a family atmosphere
than you would have
at a big U.C.
St. Mary's requires no
minimum GPA or SAT.
The average student has
a GPA of a 3.34
and SAT critical reading
and math score of 1100.
All students can expect
to pay an annual tuition
of $33,000 and $12,000
towards room and board.
St. Mary's College of California
offers nearly 40 majors.
Just a few student favorites
are Business, Communications,
and Psychology.
Plus the school has placed 100%
of its pre-med students
into medical schools.
Our desire in our Integral
laboratories is to provide
the direct hands-on experience
so they get a notion
of what scientific
process is all about
and it's developed from
a historical perspective,
so it's basically observation,
data collection, analysis.
Some students take
January term.
It's a month long
intensive session
that allows them to study
on or off campus.
They've done everything
from traveling to Ireland
to exploring the cultures
of South America.
Over 350 students are
off-campus all over the world,
traveling with a professor and
maybe 15 to 20 other students,
focusing on a particular
subject often tied to that area,
whether it's in
South Africa, Russia, Italy,
wherever they are,
in the Caribbean.
Um, so, that's going
on right now.
So that's an exciting part
of the curriculum.
Hi, sorry!
I heard you from
down the hall
and I had to come
and get a closer look
at what was going on.
Oh, no worries.
You just rockin' out
by yourself out here?
Yeah, just chillin',
hangin' out.
Sweet, I'm Ferrari.
Nice to meet you, I'm Alex.
Nice to meet you--
I'm sorry for interrupting.
Can I, like, talk to you
for a minute?
- Yeah, have a seat!
- I'm taking a tour.
I'm taking a tour today
of St. Mary's.
So we're just kinda, like,
checkin' out stuff
and wandering around
on my own a little bit.
What's your actual,
what's actually your major?
It's not music.
Um, my major is interesting.
It's called Integral.
Um, it's unique to St. Mary's.
There are only--really only
four schools in the country
that have it.
But it's, it's kind of like
a Philosophy major
without the tests.
Um, Integral is really a major
intended to sort of focus
the mind on how it thinks,
um, not so much as on
what it thinks.
So it's not, um, it's not
reiteration and regurgitation.
It's more about being able to
analyze, understand, dissect.
St. Mary's California employs
200 full-time faculty members.
92% hold their terminal degree.
I enjoy all the professors.
They're great, they're really
available to you, um,
whenever you need anything.
I know I have a couple of my
professors' cell phone numbers
if I ever need help with my
homework, you know,
text them, call them.
The St. Mary Gaels
host 14 NCAA Division I teams
that compete in
the West Coast Conference.
Sometimes for a school
of our size,
people don't realize
we're Division--
NCAA Division I
athletic school.
So, you know, our men's
basketball team this year
is ranked in the top 20.
Last year it was in
the NCAA Tournament.
What that means is, like,
every student can go
and pack the gym and be part
of the excitement of playing
national powers in that sport.
Our men's rugby team is in
the top five of the country.
Um, so we're an intercollegiate
school where students
really have an opportunity
to get immersed
in that experience
as a spectator.
On the other hand,
over 1,500 of our 2,500 students
are involved in intercollegiate
and club athletics,
so that's a huge part
of campus life.
St. Mary's offers four different
housing areas.
First years students
like Myra usually live
in the central campus
residence halls.
Pretty cool, huh?
Additional halls,
including Becket
and the townhouse
and canyon area,
are reserved
for upperclassmen.
Don't miss your chance--
get involved with one
of the 45 student groups
and organizations.
You can even start
your own dialogue
by writing hot topics
for the school newspaper,
The Collegian.
Well, this concludes
our tour
of St. Mary's College
of California.
I'm Ferrari with YOUniversityTV,
and I'll see you next time!
