It takes more than academic achievement to create a fulfilling future. It takes intellectual curiosity and drive, plus an encouraging environment where you can become your own person as well as part of a community.
With the support of a campus community dedicated to your growth and development, you’ll have the opportunity to explore every interest at Notre Dame. You’ll find your niche, embark on new adventures, and make friends for life.
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Ways to Explore and Strengthen Your Talents and Passions
With more than 500 student clubs and organizations, life outside the classroom offers endless opportunities to explore your interests and try something new. Write for The Observer, compete in interhall athletics, bring an idea to life through the Entrepreneurship Society, mentor local children, perform with an a cappella group, or tackle the climbing wall at Duncan Student Center. Along the way, you’ll build friendships, develop new skills, contribute to your community, and have plenty of fun.
The opportunities that Notre Dame affords each student are the reasons the this university stands above the rest. Daily Mass, hundreds of clubs, intramural sports, musicals, [advising]—are all directed at cultivating a holistic person in Christ and a leader of character. I would not be the person I am today without the education I have received here at Notre Dame.
There was never a doubt in my mind that I would like being at Notre Dame. What I've learned after two years of being a student is that I don't only love being at Notre Dame. I love Notre Dame, from the people that make it up, to living in community with friends, to being surrounded by the Church. I have grown so much because of ND and can only hope to grow more.
Notre Dame emphasizes an undergraduate experience dedicated not only to the intellectual development, but also the moral and spiritual development of the individual. It is truly an amazing experience seeing Notre Dame connecting students from all around the world, from all different disciplines, yet, uniting them all under the same home under the Dome.
Residential Life: the Heart of the ND Experience
100% of first-year students and 80%+ of sophomores, juniors, and seniors live in the 33 single-sex residential communities on campus. Housing is guaranteed for all four years, and each hall boasts its own chapel, interhall athletic teams, service initiatives, signature events, and personality. Within these walls, you will find a supportive community of friends and mentors who will help you thrive.
The Spirit of the Fighting Irish
Continue to play the sport you love at a high level—and explore new ones. Notre Dame offers opportunities for students beyond our Division 1 varsity athletics.
Interhall sporting events: every residence hall fields its own teams in football, basketball, soccer, and more.
Extensive recreational facilities, including the Smith Center for Recreational Sports and Rockne Memorial
An intramural program that Sports Illustrated deemed one of the best in the country
Division 1 Athletics at Notre Dame
The Fighting Irish have earned 38 national championships since 1924. Most recently, the Irish men’s and women’s fencing teams captured their 16th championship in March 2026.
Notre Dame has been among the nation’s top three in student-athlete graduation rate among FBS institutions for 19 consecutive years and has led the nation in 17 of those 19 instances.
The men's lacrosse program won back-to-back national championships in 2023 and 2024, reaching the national championship game five times in total and finishing as the national runner-up in 2010, 2014, and 2026.
Whether you create, perform, or simply love experiencing the arts, you’ll find ways to make them part of your Notre Dame experience. The University’s growing Arts District brings creativity together in one vibrant area of campus, home to the Raclin Murphy Museum of Art, DeBartolo Performing Arts Center, the Charles B. Hayes Family Sculpture Park, and Walsh Family Hall of Architecture. Explore exhibitions, experience music, theatre, dance, and film, or share your own talents onstage and in the studio. With hundreds of arts events each year, Notre Dame offers abundant opportunities to create, connect, and experience the world from new perspectives.
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Explore South Bend
Located adjacent to South Bend, Indiana, a metropolitan area of 275,000—and just 90 minutes from Chicago, Notre Dame students bridge campus and city life effortlessly. Students frequently walk to Eddy Street Commons for dining, shopping, and student apartments, or venture into downtown South Bend to explore the local food scene, regional parks, and the St. Joseph River. This proximity allows undergraduates easy access to off-campus internships, local community service initiatives, and seasonal outdoor recreation.
