Basic Information

Type Private
Geographical Reach National
Religious Affiliation Catholic
Location Notre Dame, IN
Population 320,000
Map of the United States

Weather

Comfortable Days 105 (50%)
Sunshine Hours 2,280 (12%)
Days Without Precipitation 228 (17%)

Demographics

Total Undergraduates 8,855
Men / Women 51% / 49%
From State 7%
From Region 20%
Athletes 10.3%

Racial/Ethnic

White 59%
Hispanic 15%
International 7%
Asian 6%
Mixed 6%
Black 5%
Native American 0%

Schools & Majors

Trends Degrees Male/Female Intl Earnings ROI Employment
College of Arts and Letters 821 45% / 55% 5% $98,134 89 95%
Computer Science 139 +3 68% / 32% 8% $155,091 100 96%
Computer and Information Sciences and Support Services 5 40% / 60% 0% $128,254 99
Pre-Medicine/Pre-Medical Studies 54 +30 35% / 65% 0% $70,311 48 93%
Economics 130 +103 63% / 37% 8% $125,858 99 96%
African American Studies 2 +3 50% / 50% 0% $66,061 36
American Studies 21 +6 43% / 57% 0% $60,241 19 100%
Ancient Greek 1 +4 0% / 100% 0% $82,396 74
Anthropology 16 +6 6% / 94% 0% $68,166 42 93%
Arabic Language and Literature 3 +6 67% / 33% 0% $81,795 73
Celtic Languages $82,260 74
Chinese 2 +6 0% / 100% 0% $85,084 78 88%
Classical Languages 7 +3 71% / 29% 0% $82,332 74
English 21 +20 19% / 81% 0% $68,781 44 93%
French 1 +10 100% / 0% 0% $82,077 74 93%
German +4 $82,579 75
History 24 +20 58% / 42% 0% $87,561 81 96%
International Studies 21 +45 14% / 86% 0%
Italian 1 +16 100% / 0% 0% $82,077 74 93%
Japanese 2 +3 0% / 100% 0% $85,084 78 88%
Philosophy 8 +13 75% / 25% 12% $69,491 46 100%
Philosophy and Religious Studies 2 100% / 0% 0% $69,105 45
Political Science 127 +28 46% / 54% 3% $85,395 78 92%
Psychology 96 +28 18% / 82% 10% $71,473 52 98%
Romance Languages $82,077 74 93%
Russian 1 +1 100% / 0% 0% $81,788 73
Sociology 28 +8 25% / 75% 11% $92,927 85 100%
Spanish 3 +33 0% / 100% 0% $82,077 74 93%
Theology/Theological Studies 20 +42 30% / 70% 5% $50,375 5 94%
Women's Studies 1 +7 0% / 100% 0% $64,985 32 94%
General Education 18 +4 39% / 61% 0% $92,984 86 81%
Art History, Criticism and Conservation 3 +2 0% / 100% 33% $60,974 21
Design and Visual Communications 20 +7 25% / 75% 5% $84,813 77 95%
Fine/Studio Arts 5 +3 20% / 80% 0% $56,000 11
Music 8 +4 50% / 50% 0% $57,027 13
Theater 31 +23 45% / 55% 0% $65,012 32 90%
Trends Degrees Male/Female Intl Earnings ROI Employment
College of Engineering 335 61% / 39% 5% $105,488 94 96%
Aerospace Engineering 51 73% / 27% 0% $101,580 91 91%
Chemical Engineering 67 46% / 54% 7% $116,145 97 95%
Civil Engineering 31 58% / 42% 0% $96,827 88 100%
Computer Engineering 21 76% / 24% 10% $124,465 99
Electrical Engineering 42 62% / 38% 7% $117,938 98 97%
Environmental Engineering 14 29% / 71% 0% $76,459 63 100%
Mechanical Engineering 109 65% / 35% 6% $98,505 89 98%
Trends Degrees Male/Female Intl Earnings ROI Employment
College of Science 351 40% / 60% 2% $78,233 67 95%
Chemistry 9 67% / 33% 0% $71,930 53
Chemistry 4 50% / 50% 0% $73,763 57
Mathematics 16 +12 69% / 31% 0% $102,968 92 94%
Mathematics and Statistics 26 +74 31% / 69% 8% $135,142 99 95%
Mathematics and Statistics 2 +3 100% / 0% 0% $123,694 98
Physics $90,716 84 100%
Physics 17 +3 88% / 12% 0% $90,716 84 100%
Biochemistry 23 61% / 39% 4% $94,876 87 87%
Biology 97 37% / 63% 0% $70,737 50 90%
Neuroscience 143 +1 27% / 73% 3% $67,038 39 100%
Environmental Science 14 +6 57% / 43% 0% $66,903 38
Trends Degrees Male/Female Intl Earnings ROI Employment
Keough School of Global Affairs 64 55% / 45% 0% $87,976 81 90%
Biological and Physical Sciences 64 55% / 45% 0% $87,976 81 90%
Medieval Studies +1 $70,956 50
Trends Degrees Male/Female Intl Earnings ROI Employment
Mendoza College of Business 589 57% / 43% 10% $130,325 99 96%
Accounting 72 53% / 47% 0% $114,993 97 98%
Business Analytics 118 44% / 56% 19% $128,078 99 100%
Finance 307 70% / 30% 8% $144,945 100 94%
General Business 42 48% / 52% 7% $98,600 90 95%
Management Information Systems and Statistics $136,272 99 92%
Marketing 50 28% / 72% 14% $94,595 87 96%
Trends Degrees Male/Female Intl Earnings ROI Employment
School of Architecture 38 21% / 79% 8% $80,631 71 100%
Architecture 38 21% / 79% 8% $80,631 71 100%

Financial

Tuition & Fees $71,663
ROI Percentile 93th

Retention & Graduation

Full-Time Retention 99%
4-Year Graduation Rate 89%
6-Year Graduation Rate 95%
Transfer-Out Rate 0%

Earnings by Major Category

Each major category's degree-weighted estimated median 5-year earnings at this college, expressed as a z-score against the national degree-weighted distribution for that category. 0 is the national average. The shaded band between +1.28 and −1.28 marks the central 80% of the national distribution (10th–90th percentile).

Academics

% Degrees Male/Female Intl Earnings ROI Employment
Business & Economics 32.7% 719 58% / 42% 9% $129,518 99 96%
Humanities & Social Sciences 18.6% 408 34% / 66% 5% $77,120 65 95%
Engineering 15.2% 335 61% / 39% 5% $105,488 94 96%
Life & Natural Sciences 14.9% 327 38% / 62% 2% $74,191 58 94%
Computer Science 6.6% 144 67% / 33% 8% $154,159 100 96%
Arts 4.8% 105 30% / 70% 5% $73,283 56 96%
Physical Sciences & Math 3.4% 74 59% / 41% 3% $106,664 94 96%
Health Sciences 2.5% 54 35% / 65% 0% $70,311 48 93%
Education 0.8% 18 39% / 61% 0% $92,984 86 81%
Agriculture & Food Science 0.6% 14 57% / 43% 0% $66,903 38

Research R1

Research $ Rank Federal Industry $ PhDs Rank PhD students Postdocs
Engineering $107M #49 46% $11.0M 90 #38 629 44
Physical Sciences & Math $71.8M #48 62% $0.3M 65 #40 379 56
Life & Natural Sciences $37.8M #93 38% $0.8M 32 #75 234 28
Humanities & Social Sciences $31.5M #74 27% $0.0M 84 #57 175 22
Computer Science $29.6M #31 38% $0.4M
Business & Economics $15.2M #39 3% $0.1M 6 #168 43 13
Agriculture & Food Science $0.4M #190 0% $0
Health Sciences $0.3M #327 33% $0 1
Education $0.1M #400 0% $0
Total $294M #93 44% $12.6M 277 #86 1,460 164

Expenditure and funding source: NSF HERD, FY2024. Degrees: IPEDS completions, 2023–24. Students and postdocs: NSF Survey of Graduate Students and Postdoctorates, fall 2024, which covers science, engineering and selected health fields only. An em dash means the source does not report the figure, which is not the same as zero.

Admissions

Uses Common App Yes
Acceptance Rate 9%
Yield (Unbound) 64%
Restrictive Early Action Nov 1
Regular Decision Jan 1

Acceptance Rates

In-State Out-of-State International
Regular Decision 11% 11% 4%

Early Action and Restrictive Early Action applicants are reported at the regular-decision rate.

Standardized Tests

Test Policy optional
Submitted Test Scores 67%
SAT Range 1460 – 1540
SAT Math Range 730 – 780
SAT RW Range 720 – 760

Rankings

Academics

Future Patagonia Vest Owners Top Investment Banking Feeders
Settling for Evercore
Future Ambulance Chasers Top Law School Feeders
Have You Been in an Accident?
Can't Hide Behind Your GPA SAT-required, Highest Medians
Above Average in High School is Not Enough

College Costs

Bring Me Your Tired, Your Poor Need-Blind for Internationals
Come, Baby, Come

Prestige

Grandma Eyebrow Raisers Easy Brags for the Prestigious-Conscious
Is Everyone an Ivy+ Now?

Someone Like Me

Richy Rich Wealthiest Students
Comfortable in First Class

Engineering

It's Not About Molecules, It's About Pipes Chemical Engineering
Math Masochists Scared of Actual Chemicals
Playing House Civil Engineering
The Deep Bench
Resistance Is Not Futile Electrical Engineering
Ohm My God
Hugging Trees with Calculus Environmental Engineering
Carbon Crushers
Is It a Solid? Is It a Liquid? Yes. Materials Engineering
Composite Crew
WD-40 & Duct Tape Mechanical Engineering & Robotics
Whiteboard-preferred

Computer Science

Explaining That HTML is Not a Programming Language Computer Science (A&S)
Wait, We Have a CS Major?

Physical Sciences & Math

Breaking Bad Chemistry
Policy, Pharma & Forensics Faction
The "I Understand Interstellar" Elite Physics & Astronomy
Our Labs Have Labs (The Experimentalists)
No Words Allowed Pure Mathematics
Sigma Grindset

Life & Natural Sciences

Pre-Med Reject Waiting Room Biology
Evolving

Agriculture & Food Science

Doomsday Prepping with Data Environmental Science
Data-Driven Tree Huggers

Business & Economics

LIFO the Party Accounting
Big Four Pipeline
PowerPoint Presentation Power Rankings Business Administration
Suit & Tie on a Tuesday Pre-Professionals
It's Basic Supply and Demand, Bro Economics
I Actually Wanted to do Finance
Wolf of Wall Street Prep Finance
Midtown Manhattan Waiting Room
Tik-Tok Generation Marketing
The Creatives

Humanities & Social Sciences

Much Ado About Nothing English, Literature & Writing
Well-Versed
Model UN Generation Government & Politics
Diplomat Track
Hindsight is 20/20 (And So is My Salary) History & Archaeology
Footnote Masters
Passport Stamp Collectors International Relations
Globe Trotters
The "Why Are We Here?" Support Group Philosophy & Ethics
The Thinkers
I Want To Understand Myself Psychology
Stealth Overachievers
Arguing with God for a Grade Religion
The Faithful Scholars
Everything is a Construct Sociology & Anthropology
Field Observers

Arts

Sleep Deprivation by Design Architecture
Design Visionaries

Professional

Future Lawyers (and Their Future Anxiety) Law
Pre-Law Prowess