University of Notre Dame
Notre Dame, IN
University of Notre Dame is a private, Catholic research university in Notre Dame, Indiana, a suburb of a large city, with 8,818 undergraduates. Social sciences and mathematics are its signature fields: together they make up 22% of its bachelor's degrees, two and a half times their share across the colleges we cover. 95% of students finish within six years, and former students who are working earn a median of $99,980 ten years after starting.
University of Notre Dame admitted 3,510 of 28,353 applicants for the fall 2023 entering class (12.4%).
- Acceptance rate
- 12.4%
- Fall 2023 class
- Tuition and fees
- $65,025
- 2024–25 school year
- Paid after aid
- $26,780
- Average, students with aid
- ACT, middle 50%
- 33–35
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 University of Notre Dame is known for
Measured by the 2,922 bachelor's degrees it awarded in 2022–23, and what its graduates went on to earn.
Social sciences
16.8%
of its bachelor's degrees: about twice the 8.0% share across the colleges we cover.
Mathematics
5.6%
of its bachelor's degrees: three and a half times the 1.7% share across the colleges we cover.
- Finance and Financial Management Services2719.3% of degrees$160,313+92% vs $83,343 nationally
- Economics2568.8% of degrees$122,637+48% vs $82,686 nationally
- Political Science and Government1756.0% of degrees$94,297+49% vs $63,293 nationally
- Computer and Information Sciences1625.5% of degrees$142,970+55% vs $92,374 nationally
- Neurobiology and Neurosciences1364.7% of degrees$65,458+5% vs $62,451 nationally
- Mathematics and Statistics (other)1204.1% of degrees$123,663+39% vs $88,839 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
8,818
Fall 2024
Type
Private, nonprofit
Doctoral university, very high research activity
Living on campus
Half or more
of undergraduates live on campus
Students per faculty member
8 to 1
Fall 2024
International students
7%
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 University of Notre Dame
Two things University of Notre Dame 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.
29% of the enrolled class sent an SAT.
The SAT band on this page describes that share of the class, not all of it. Another 29% sent an ACT. University of Notre Dame files test scores under “considered”.
Source: the federal IPEDS survey, fall 2023
Families paid $26,780 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
12.4%
3,510 admitted of 28,353 applicants
Source: the federal IPEDS survey, fall 2023
SAT, middle 50%
Reading 710–760Math 730–780
Source: the federal IPEDS survey, fall 2023
ACT, middle 50%
33–35
Source: the federal IPEDS survey, fall 2023
Enrolled students who sent an SAT
29%
Counted per test: a student may send both.
Source: the federal IPEDS survey, fall 2023
Enrolled students who sent an ACT
29%
Counted per test: a student may send both.
Source: the federal IPEDS survey, fall 2023
Where do you actually stand at University of Notre Dame?
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 University of Notre Dame costs
The published price first, then what students who received aid actually paid, by family income.
Tuition and fees for 2024–25 were $65,025, and the full cost of attendance, with housing, food and books, was $83,271. After grants and scholarships, students who received financial aid paid $26,780 a year on average.
Tuition and fees
$65,025
2024–25 school year
Full cost of attendance
$83,271
Tuition, fees, housing, food and books
Paid after aid
$26,780
Average, students who received aid
What students paid, by family income
Each bar is that figure as a share of the $83,271 full cost.
- Under $30k$7,244Typical public university: $10,013
- $30k–$48k$7,254Typical public university: $10,847
- $48k–$75k$11,432Typical public university: $13,703
- $75k–$110k$18,670Typical public university: $17,979
- Over $110k$45,321Typical 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
95%
Our colleges' median: 63%
Return for a second year
99%
Our colleges' median: 79%
Earnings after 10 years
$99,980
Our colleges' median: $57,440
Median debt at graduation
$19,000
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 University of Notre Dame says it weighs
The school's own words, from the form it fills in every year. Ranked as it ranks them.
- Essayrequired
Source: the federal IPEDS survey, fall 2023
- Course rigorrequired
Source: the federal IPEDS survey, fall 2023
- Recommendationsrequired
Source: the federal IPEDS survey, fall 2023
- GPAconsidered
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
Essays on this application
9 essay prompts on the application: you would write 4, 2 are optional, and 1 is not yet confirmed.
A prompt we have not yet confirmed is counted on its own rather than called optional, treating an unconfirmed prompt as optional is how a student skips an essay their college expects.
Published deadlines
Each date is read from the college's own materials and re-checked on a schedule.
Guides for University of Notre Dame applicants
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