unitid 152080 · Notre Dame, IN · private nonprofit 4-year · suburb (large)
University of Notre Dame
Catholic university in Notre Dame, Indiana, U.S.
- founded
- 1842
- enrollment 2023
- 13,618
- predominant degree
- Bachelor's
- website
- nd.edu/
- motto
- “Vita, Dulcedo, Spes”
The University of Notre Dame du Lac is a private Catholic research university in Notre Dame, Indiana, United States. The university was founded in 1842 by members of the Congregation of Holy Cross, a Catholic religious order of priests and brothers. Its main campus covers 1,261 acres in a suburban setting and has landmarks such as the Golden Dome main building, Sacred Heart Basilica, the Grotto of Our Lady of Lourdes, the Word of Life mosaic mural, and Notre Dame Stadium. wikipedia rev 1359905232 ↗
scorecard 2026-06 · percentiles within private nonprofit 4-years
The record
admission rate
11%
3rd pctl among private nonprofit 4-years
undergraduates
8,818
97th pctl among private nonprofit 4-years
Pell share
14%
undergrads on Pell grants
9th pctl among private nonprofit 4-years
completion
95%
finish within 150% time
97th pctl among private nonprofit 4-years
sticker cost / yr
$83,271
93rd pctl among private nonprofit 4-years
avg net price / yr
$26,780
after aid, aided students
70th pctl among private nonprofit 4-years
median earnings, 10 yr
$99,980
after entry, Title IV students
97th pctl among private nonprofit 4-years
median grad debt
$19,000
18th pctl among private nonprofit 4-years
what families actually pay
Cost
Sticker price is a fiction for most families — net price is what aided students pay after grants, by family income.
Average net price by family income, 2023–24 aid cohort
Families earning under $30k paid $7,244 per year after aid.
Dashed hollow marks are privacy-suppressed brackets — not zero. Band: middle half of private nonprofit 4-years (all incomes).
Who enrolls, by family income
family income mix not reported
- Median family income
- $112,232
- First-generation students
- 10%
- In-state tuition & fees
- $65,025
earnings · debt · programs
Outcomes
Median earnings after entry, working grads with federal aid
Ten years out, the median graduate earns 5.3× the median graduate debt.
Earnings cover federally aided (Title IV) students only.
What programs pay — top fields of study
| program | grads | earn 5 yr | debt |
|---|---|---|---|
| Management Sciences and Quantitative Methods. | 306 | — | — |
| Finance and Financial Management Services. | 271 | $138,141 | $19,000 |
| Economics. | 256 | $120,257 | $19,965 |
| Business Administration, Management and Operations. | 186 | — | — |
| Political Science and Government. | 175 | $81,595 | $19,000 |
| Law. | 165 | $153,320 | — |
| Computer and Information Sciences, General. | 162 | $149,206 | $19,000 |
| Neurobiology and Neurosciences. | 136 | — | $19,500 |
| Mathematics and Statistics, Other. | 120 | $130,029 | $19,000 |
| Management Sciences and Quantitative Methods. | 115 | — | $19,000 |
| Applied Mathematics. | 114 | — | — |
| Psychology, General. | 112 | $67,822 | $19,015 |
— is privacy suppression at small programs, never zero. Earnings are median, 5 years after completing.
annual scorecard files, 1996–2026
Trajectory
Line breaks are years where the measure wasn't collected — a gap is not a zero.
Admission rate
Price per year
- sticker
- net
Median earnings, 10 yrs after entry
Undergraduates
wikidata · 3,827 people recorded
Memory
Wikidata is not an alumni census: a person appears only when volunteer editors record them. Counts measure the archive's memory - access x achievement x documentation - never placement rates or institutional quality.
Field fingerprint — share of recorded alumni by field
Women among recorded alumni, by birth decade
People without a recorded gender are excluded; decades with fewer than 5 recorded alumni are dropped.
Wikipedia attention
monthly article views since 2015
most recorded occupationsresearcher (746) · basketball player (506) · American football player (435) · university teacher (309) · politician (244) · lawyer (201) · writer (103) · mathematician (93)
Nobel laureates who studied here
- Eric F. Wieschaus Medicine 1995
The portrait wall
Sized by nothing, ordered by Wikipedia footprint (language editions).
Condoleezza Rice
113 wikis · Public domain
Nicholas Sparks
63 wikis · Public domain
George Wendt
59 wikis · CC BY 2.0
Orson Scott Card
57 wikis · CC BY 3.0
Jacques Maritain
51 wikis · Public domain
Eric F. Wieschaus
49 wikis · CC BY-SA 3.0
Alexander Haig
45 wikis · Public domain
Francis Arinze
39 wikis · CC BY-SA 3.0
Saskia Sassen
38 wikis · CC BY 2.0
Regis Philbin
38 wikis · CC BY 3.0
Kevin Farrell
36 wikis · CC BY-SA 2.0
William Mapother
35 wikis · CC BY-SA 2.0
Joe Montana
34 wikis · CC BY-SA 2.0
Mariel Zagunis
31 wikis · CC BY 3.0
Matt Besler
30 wikis · CC BY-SA 4.0
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Provenance
- U.S. Dept. of Education College Scorecard, 2026-06 release. Earnings cover federally aided (Title IV) students only. Suppressed values are null, never imputed.
- Annual Scorecard files 1996-2026. A null in early years usually means the measure was not yet collected, not zero.
- Coordinates and locale describe the campus address, not where students live.
- Wikidata is not an alumni census: a person appears only when volunteer editors record them. Counts measure the archive's memory - access x achievement x documentation - never placement rates or institutional quality.
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- Lead text from Wikipedia (revision 1359905232), CC BY-SA 4.0.