About Notre Dame
Rankings
- 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.
- The Wall Street Journal has cited Notre Dame one of the "New Ivies" in American higher education, along with, among others, Duke, Northwestern and Johns Hopkins.
- Notre Dame ranks first among U.S. Catholic colleges and universities in the number of undergraduates who have gone on to earn a doctorate since 1920, according to independent studies conducted by Georgetown University and the Delta Epsilon Sigma scholastic honor society.
- An influential book from Johns Hopkins University Press ranks Notre Dame sixth among 11 rising private research universities.
- Notre Dame is one of the few universities to rank in the top 25 in the U.S. News & World Report survey of America's best colleges and the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics (NACDA) Directors' Cup standings of the best overall athletic programs.
- Notre Dame ranks fourth in a listing of "dream schools" in a survey of parents by the Princeton Review. The top four are Harvard, Stanford, Princeton, and Notre Dame.
- Hispanic Magazine ranks Notre Dame 16th on its list of the top 25 colleges for Latinos.
- The Mendoza College of Business at Notre Dame ranks second nationally for its undergraduate program and 20th nationally for its MBA program by BusinessWeek magazine in its surveys of top business programs.
- Notre Dame Law School is rated 23rd by U.S. News & World Report.
- Notre Dame is ranked 13th nationally among medium-sized schools for producing Peace Corps volunteers.
