How diverse is Notre Dame?
Immersion in diversity – in diverse ideas, in diverse experiences, and in diverse ways of approaching life’s great questions – is central to the idea of a liberal arts education. Notre Dame is home to students from every state of the union and from some one hundred foreign countries. Enrollments of minority students have been steadily on the rise: minorities composed 13.3% of the student body in 1996 and rose to 17.2% in 2005, comparing favorably with our peer institutions. Women were first admitted to undergraduate studies at Notre Dame in 1972 and now compose 47% of the student body. We interact with and support several national organizations such as GEM, SACNAS, Institute for the Recruitment of Teachers, Project 1000, National Physical Science Consortium, SHPE, MAES, and NSBE among others whose goal is to increase diversity at the graduate level, Notre Dame also hosts a McNair Scholars Program that is open to our students as well as those from four partner universities. Creating an
