Saint Mary's College
Notre Dame, IN
Saint Mary's College is a private, Catholic women's liberal arts college in Notre Dame, Indiana, a suburb of a large city, with 1,458 undergraduates. Education is its signature field: 10% of its bachelor's degrees, two and a half times its share across the colleges we cover. 69% of students finish within six years, and former students who are working earn a median of $59,354 ten years after starting.
Saint Mary's College admitted 1,966 of 2,573 applicants for the fall 2024 entering class (76.4%).
- Acceptance rate
- 76.4%
- Fall 2024 class
- Tuition and fees
- $53,230
- 2024–25 school year
- Paid after aid
- $25,292
- Average, students with aid
- SAT, middle 50%
- 1078–1240
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 2024 entering class, a read on the school, not a prediction about any one applicant.
What Saint Mary's College is known for
Measured by the 367 bachelor's degrees it awarded in 2022–23, and what its graduates went on to earn.
Education
9.8%
of its bachelor's degrees: two and a half times the 3.9% share across the colleges we cover.
- Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing4712.8% of degrees$80,396−10% vs $88,910 nationally
- Psychology359.5% of degrees$58,218+15% vs $50,706 nationally
- Teacher Education and Professional Development, Specific Levels and Methods318.4% of degrees$51,665+9% vs $47,382 nationally
- Business Administration, Management and Operations277.4% of degrees$73,449+8% vs $68,257 nationally
- Biology256.8% of degrees$68,409+20% vs $57,214 nationally
- Communication and Media Studies226.0% of degrees$66,335+18% vs $56,359 nationally
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
Suburb of a large city
Notre Dame, IN
Undergraduates
1,458
Fall 2024
Type
Private, nonprofit
Baccalaureate college, arts and sciences focus
Living on campus
Half or more
of undergraduates live on campus
Students per faculty member
9 to 1
Fall 2024
International students
1%
of undergraduates, fall 2024
Source: the College Scorecard (U.S. Department of Education), including the Carnegie Classification and the federal locale code it publishes.
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
76.4%
1,966 admitted of 2,573 applicants
Source: their Common Data Set, fall 2024
SAT, middle 50%
1078–1240
Source: their Common Data Set, fall 2024
ACT, middle 50%
26–30
Source: their Common Data Set, fall 2024
Average GPA of admitted students
3.91
Source: their Common Data Set, fall 2024
Enrolled students who sent an SAT
52%
Counted per test: a student may send both.
Source: their Common Data Set, fall 2024
Enrolled students who sent an ACT
15%
Counted per test: a student may send both.
Source: their Common Data Set, fall 2024
Where do you actually stand at Saint Mary's College?
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 Saint Mary's College costs
The published price first, then what students who received aid actually paid, by family income.
Tuition and fees for 2024–25 were $53,230, and the full cost of attendance, with housing, food and books, was $66,478. After grants and scholarships, students who received financial aid paid $25,292 a year on average.
Tuition and fees
$53,230
2024–25 school year
Full cost of attendance
$66,478
Tuition, fees, housing, food and books
Paid after aid
$25,292
Average, students who received aid
What students paid, by family income
Each bar is that figure as a share of the $66,478 full cost.
- Under $30k$16,760Typical public university: $10,013
- $30k–$48k$18,152Typical public university: $10,847
- $48k–$75k$21,014Typical public university: $13,703
- $75k–$110k$23,680Typical public university: $17,979
- Over $110k$30,443Typical 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
69%
Our colleges' median: 63%
Return for a second year
88%
Our colleges' median: 79%
Earnings after 10 years
$59,354
Our colleges' median: $57,440
Median debt at graduation
$27,000
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 Saint Mary's College says it weighs
The school's own words, from the form it fills in every year. Ranked as it ranks them.
- Course rigorrequired
Source: the federal IPEDS survey, fall 2023
- GPArequired
Source: the federal IPEDS survey, fall 2023
- Recommendationsrequired
Source: the federal IPEDS survey, fall 2023
- Essayconsidered
Source: the federal IPEDS survey, fall 2023
- Test scoresconsidered
Source: the federal IPEDS survey, fall 2023
- Class rankconsidered
Source: the federal IPEDS survey, fall 2023
Not considered
- Legacy
Source: the federal IPEDS survey, fall 2023
The early round, in counts
Two published rates side by side. Early applicants are a different group of students, so the gap is a fact about those pools, not a lever anyone can pull.
Early Decision
0.9× the rateEarly Decision admitted 69.5% (137 of 197), against 77% in the regular round.
1,829 of 2,376 in the comparison pool.
Source: their Common Data Set, fall 2024
Essays on this application
1 essay prompt on the application: you would write it.
Published deadlines
Each date is read from the college's own materials and re-checked on a schedule.
More colleges on the record
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Other colleges in Indiana
Closest acceptance rates in the same state.
- Indiana University-Northwest76.7%
- Taylor University76.1%
- University of Evansville77.6%
- Indiana University-Indianapolis78%
Colleges with a similar acceptance rate
Closest acceptance rates anywhere in the country.
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