Notre Dame of Maryland University
Baltimore, MD
Notre Dame of Maryland University is a private, Catholic women's university in Baltimore, Maryland, a large city, with 709 undergraduates. Health professions and liberal arts are its signature fields: together they make up 82% of its bachelor's degrees, about eight times their share across the colleges we cover. 50% of students finish within six years, and former students who are working earn a median of $65,344 ten years after starting.
Notre Dame of Maryland University admitted 1,997 of 2,309 applicants for the fall 2023 entering class (86.5%).
- Acceptance rate
- 86.5%
- Fall 2023 class
- Tuition and fees
- $43,360
- 2024–25 school year
- Paid after aid
- $19,169
- Average, students with aid
Every figure on this page is published by the college or a federal survey, compiled by GoodGoblin, and carries the source it came from. They describe the fall 2023 entering class, a read on the school, not a prediction about any one applicant.
What Notre Dame of Maryland University is known for
Measured by the 234 bachelor's degrees it awarded in 2022–23, and what its graduates went on to earn.
Health professions
66.7%
of its bachelor's degrees: about seven times the 9.1% share across the colleges we cover.
Liberal arts
15.4%
of its bachelor's degrees: about ten times the 1.6% share across the colleges we cover.
- Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing15164.5% of degrees$98,587+11% vs $88,910 nationally
- Liberal Arts and Sciences, General Studies and Humanities3615.4% of degrees$55,294About the $53,072 national median
- Multi/Interdisciplinary Studies (other)125.1% of degreesToo few graduates to publish
- Biology93.8% of degreesToo few graduates to publish
- Communication and Media Studies31.3% of degreesToo few graduates to publish
- Psychology31.3% of degreesToo few graduates to publish
Source: the College Scorecard (U.S. Department of Education), field-of-study data. Degrees are bachelor's degrees awarded in 2022–23. Earnings are the median for 2017–18 and 2018–19 graduates, in 2024 dollars, working and not enrolled, four years after graduating. Shares across the colleges we cover count every bachelor's degree at the colleges with a page here.
The place
Where it is, how big it is, and how students live.
Setting
Large city
Baltimore, MD
Undergraduates
709
Fall 2024
Type
Private, nonprofit
Master's university, larger programs
Living on campus
A quarter to half
of undergraduates live on campus
Students per faculty member
9 to 1
Fall 2024
International students
4%
of undergraduates, fall 2024
Source: the College Scorecard (U.S. Department of Education), including the Carnegie Classification and the federal locale code it publishes.
What stands out at Notre Dame of Maryland University
Two things Notre Dame of Maryland University published, ranked by how much each could change what you actually do, not by how impressive it looks. Every one describes a class that has already enrolled.
Notre Dame of Maryland University reports that test scores are not considered at all.
That is the school’s own answer on the form it fills in every year. A score you send is not read as part of the decision here.
Source: the federal IPEDS survey, fall 2023
Families paid $19,169 on average after aid.
Averaged across students who received federal aid: the price after grants and scholarships, not the sticker price.
Source: the College Scorecard
Every figure, in full
The same measured fields on every one of these pages. Nothing is filled in where the school published nothing.
Acceptance rate
86.5%
1,997 admitted of 2,309 applicants
Source: the federal IPEDS survey, fall 2023
Where do you actually stand at Notre Dame of Maryland University?
The figures on this page describe a class that already enrolled. GoodGoblin reads them against your own transcript, scores, activities and budget, then builds the balanced list, the essay plan and the deadline calendar around what it finds.
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What Notre Dame of Maryland University costs
The published price first, then what students who received aid actually paid, by family income.
Tuition and fees for 2024–25 were $43,360, and the full cost of attendance, with housing, food and books, was $59,320. After grants and scholarships, students who received financial aid paid $19,169 a year on average.
Tuition and fees
$43,360
2024–25 school year
Full cost of attendance
$59,320
Tuition, fees, housing, food and books
Paid after aid
$19,169
Average, students who received aid
What students paid, by family income
Each bar is that figure as a share of the $59,320 full cost.
- Under $30k$11,843Typical public university: $10,013
- $30k–$48k$17,637Typical public university: $10,847
- $48k–$75k$17,882Typical public university: $13,703
- $75k–$110k$21,409Typical public university: $17,979
- Over $110k$24,990Typical public university: $22,475
Source: the federal College Scorecard. Tuition and cost of attendance are for the 2024–25 school year; colleges usually raise them each year. What students paid is the average net price for first-year students who received federal financial aid. Typical public university: the median across the 338 public universities on GoodGoblin, for in-state students, compiled by GoodGoblin from the same federal data.
Where it leads
Who finishes, who stays, and what they earn and owe afterwards.
Finish within six years
50%
Our colleges' median: 63%
Return for a second year
73%
Our colleges' median: 79%
Earnings after 10 years
$65,344
Our colleges' median: $57,440
Median debt at graduation
$22,666
Our colleges' median: $23,725
Source: the College Scorecard (U.S. Department of Education). Six-year completion describes students who started in fall 2018; second-year return describes students who started in fall 2023; earnings describe students who started in 2009–10 and 2010–11, measured in 2020 and 2021, in 2022 dollars; debt describes federal loans of students who graduated in fiscal years 2020 and 2021. Medians are across the 1,034 colleges with a page here.
What Notre Dame of Maryland University says it weighs
The school's own words, from the form it fills in every year. Ranked as it ranks them.
- GPArequired
Source: the federal IPEDS survey, fall 2023
- Essayconsidered
Source: the federal IPEDS survey, fall 2023
- Course rigorconsidered
Source: the federal IPEDS survey, fall 2023
- Recommendationsconsidered
Source: the federal IPEDS survey, fall 2023
- Class rankconsidered
Source: the federal IPEDS survey, fall 2023
Not considered
- Test scores
Source: the federal IPEDS survey, fall 2023
- Legacy
Source: the federal IPEDS survey, fall 2023
Published deadlines
Each date is read from the college's own materials and re-checked on a schedule.
- Rolling AdmissionOctober 15, 2026
- Early ActionNovember 1, 2026
Verified August 19, 2026
- Early Action 2December 1, 2026
Verified August 19, 2026
More colleges on the record
Each of these pages carries the same measured figures and sources.
Other colleges in Maryland
Closest acceptance rates in the same state.
- Salisbury University88.6%
- Frostburg State University89.4%
- McDaniel College83.6%
- Stevenson University83.2%
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Closest acceptance rates anywhere in the country.
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