INDICATORS OF EXCELLENCE RANKINGS
• The Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory and Notre Dame have collaborated to create a new Institute for Theoretical Sciences.
• 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 is part of a consortium of universities that operates the world’s largest telescope in Arizona.
• The Wall Street Journal has cited Notre Dame as one of the “New Ivies” in American higher education, along with Duke, Northwestern, Johns Hopkins and others.
• Two Notre Dame theologians are members of the official translation team of the Dead Sea Scrolls.
• Notre Dame ranks fifth in a listing of “dream schools” in a survey of parents by the Princeton Review. Others include Harvard, Stanford, Princeton and New York University. • Hispanic Magazine ranks Notre Dame 13th on its list of the top 25 colleges for Latinos. • The Mendoza College of Business at Notre Dame is rated second nationally by BusinessWeek magazine in its annual survey of undergraduate business programs.
FACULTY & PROGRAMS • Chemist Dennis Jacobs was selected the 2002-03 U.S. Professor of the Year for research and doctoral universities by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education. • The Department of Philosophy is ranked 14th in the United States in a survey of nearly 200 philosophers, and Notre Dame and Yale are cited as the nation’s top two programs for the study of the philosophy of religion. • Faculty in the College of Arts and Letters have earned 37 fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities during the past 10 years, more than any other university in the nation. • The School of Architecture is ranked ninth by the National Architectural Accrediting Board. • The National Science Foundation has joined with Notre Dame and two other universities to establish the Joint Institute for Nuclear Astrophysics. • Notre Dame established the first programs in law, engineering and architecture at an American Catholic institution of higher learning. • Notre Dame’s Institute for Medieval Studies was the first in the United States, and the University also founded the first publication series dedicated specifically to medieval topics. • According to the National Science Foundation, Notre Dame is one of the top three U.S. universities in low-energy nuclear physics research. • Notre Dame’s Department of Accountancy consistently ranks among the top 10 in the country in an annual nationwide survey of accountancy department chairs. • The Department of Mathematics ranks in the top quarter among all universities that grant a doctorate in the field. • U.S. News & World Report and Entrepreneur Magazine rank the University of Notre Dame’s Gigot Center for Entrepreneurial Studies among the top 25 in the nation.
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