Graduation Rate

Of the students entering a full-time, first-year bachelor degree-seeking program in the fall of 2018, 95 percent graduate within six years. The complete IPEDS Graduation Rate Survey may be found in the Office of Institutional Research, Innovation, & Strategy (http://iris.nd.edu).

Honors at Graduation

In the undergraduate colleges, a degree will be granted with highest honors (summa cum laude) if the student’s grade point average ranks among the top 5.000 percent of those students graduating from the student’s college or school; for a student whose grade point average ranks among the top 15.000 percent of the student’s college or school, a degree will be granted with high honors (magna cum laude); for a student whose grade-point average ranks among the top 30.000 percent of the student’s college or school, a degree will be granted with honors (cum laude). A student who meets the requirements of more than one category of honors will be awarded only the highest honor for which that student qualifies.

Accreditation and Academic Association

The University of Notre Dame is a member of the North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools, the National Catholic Education Association, the Association of American Colleges, the American Council on Education, the National Commission on Accrediting (not an accrediting agency), the Council of Graduate Schools in the United States, and the Midwest Conference on Graduate Study and Research, and it is fully accredited by the Indiana State Board of Education. The University is also a member of the Indiana Conference of Higher Education, the International Association of Universities, the Catholicarum Universitatum Foederatio (Federation of Catholic Universities) and the Institute of International Education.