Athletics by the numbers 25
National Championships (11 in football, seven in fencing, two in women’s soccer, two in men’s tennis and one in men’s golf, men’s cross country and women’s basketball)
10
Conference championships won by Irish teams in 2008-09 (BIG EAST, Central Collegiate Hockey Association and Great Western Lacrosse League)
101
BIG EAST Conference championships won by Notre Dame in 14 seasons of conference play
210
All-time Academic All-Americans, second most of any university
84
Academic All-Americans since 2000, more than any other school
48
NCAA postgraduate scholarship recipients since 1964, including four in 2008-09
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Irish programs which finished their 2008-09 season nationally ranked
19
Notre Dame teams (out of 22) with a graduation rate of 100%
9
Irish athletic teams that earned a perfect score of 1,000 in the NCAA’s Academic Progress Rate report in 2008-09
14
Programs honored by the NCAA for Academic Progress Rate scores in 2009
5,500
Hours of community service completed by Notre Dame student-athletes during the 200809 school year
UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME History •
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The University of Notre Dame du Lac was founded in 1842 by Father Edward Sorin. Adjacent to South Bend, Ind., and nestled next to Saint Mary’s and Saint Joseph’s Lakes, the University was started with $310 in cash and three log buildings in disrepair. Notre Dame would establish many firsts for Catholic institutions of higher learning, including the first Catholic law school, the first Catholic engineering school and the first student residence with private rooms, Sorin Hall.
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Graduate and undergraduate students at the University come from all 50 states and more than 100 countries worldwide.
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Notre Dame’s graduation rate of 95 percent is exceeded by only Harvard and Princeton.
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Notre Dame’s 98 percent retention rate between the freshman and sophomore years is among the highest in the country, thanks in large part to the University’s unique First Year of Studies Program.
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The University is organized into four colleges - Arts and Letters, Science, Engineering and the Mendoza College of Business - the School of Architecture, the Law School, the Graduate School, six major research institutes, more than 40 centers and special programs and the University library system.
Notre Dame is among a select group of schools that ranks in the top 25 on the U.S. News & World Report survey of the nation’s top colleges and in the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics Directors’ Cup for overall success in athletics.
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Community service is a hallmark of Notre Dame. About 80 percent of Notre Dame students engage in some form of voluntary community service during their years at the University, and at least 10 percent devote a year or more after graduation to service in the United States and around the world.
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The University’s Alliance for Catholic Education (ACE) annually sends 180 recent graduates to teach in some 100 understaffed Catholic schools in the southern, southeastern and southwestern United States and in South Bend. A national model, ACE has received the Higher Education Award from the Corporation for National Service for leadership in using national service resources through AmeriCorps.
Notre Dame has one of the highest undergraduate residential concentrations of any national university, with 80 percent of its students living in 27 residence halls.
Alumni
Notre Dame is rated among the nation’s top 25 institutions of higher learning in surveys conducted by U.S. News and World Report, Princeton Review, Time, Kiplinger’s, and Kaplan/Newsweek. Notre Dame ranks fifth in a listing of “dream schools” in a survey of parents by the Princeton Review. The top five are Princeton, Stanford, Harvard, New York University and Notre Dame.
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The medical school acceptance rate of the University’s preprofessional studies graduates is 80 percent, almost twice the national average.
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Notre Dame ranks first among Catholic universities in the number of doctorates earned by its undergraduate alumni - a record compiled over some 85 years.
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The University’s network of 270 alumni clubs -- including 60 international clubs -- is the most extensive in higher education.
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With graduates renowned for their loyalty and generosity, Notre Dame annually ranks among the top five in percentage of alumni who contribute to the University.
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In recent years, Notre Dame alumni have won a Nobel Prize in medicine, a Pulitzer Prize in journalism, and an Emmy Award for contributions to television technology.