Founded in 1922 as a Catholic college for women by the Sisters of Notre Dame, Notre Dame College is located on a 53-acres campus in South Euclid, Ohio, a suburb of Cleveland. Notre Dame educates a diverse population of students in the liberal arts. Notre Dame College began admitting men in 2001, and enrollment has reached almost 2,000 students. The College offers associate’s, bachelor’s and master’s degrees in over 30 programs of study and 22 scholarship athletic sports.
| Overall Score (about) | 65.9 |
| Total Cost On-Campus Attendance | $45,150 |
| Admission Success rate | N/A |
| ACT / SAT 75%ile scores | 21 / 1060 |
| Student Ratio Students-to-Faculty | 22 : 1 |
| Retention (full-time / part-time) | 60% / 50% |
| Enrollment Total (all students) | 1,700 |
The Princeton Review has named Notre Dame College one of the best colleges and universities in the Midwest, and it offers more than 30 academic disciplines with programs that include an education program, a business program, and a new bachelor of science program in nursing. Notre Dame
The typical incoming freshman at Notre Dame College in 2011 had an average ACT score of 20, or an SAT critical reading score of 471 and math score of 491. The average grade point average of incoming freshmen was a 3.08. Notre Dame does grant some students provisional admission if grades or standardized exam performances fall below standards necessary for full admission.
About 81 percent of all freshmen applicants are accepted for admission, and about 79 percent of all freshmen return for sophomore year.
Services provided by Notre Dame include its Dwyer Learning Center, which offers free tutoring and remedial help; counseling services; a Career Services Center that assists students with co-ops, internships, resume writing, and career/job search.
Notre Dame College offers a number of scholarships to its students. The Val/Sal Scholarship is awarded to incoming freshmen who were the valedictorian or salutatorian of their high school class at the end of the first semester of their senior year. The Presidential Honors Scholarship is awarded to incoming freshmen who are high achieving academic students. Band, choir, leadership, and cheerleading scholarships are awarded to incoming freshmen who possess special talents or show the potential for enriching the campus atmosphere and/or demonstrate financial need.
Notre Dame also offers a Family/Alumni Plan, reduced tuition rates for incoming students who have a sibling/parent attending the college or whose parent or grandparent is an alumni. Athletic grants are also awarded through the athletic department.
Federal and state funds are also available, including the Pell Grant, the Academic Competitiveness Grant, the SMART Grant, the Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grant, the Perkins Loan, subsidized and unsubsidized Stafford Loans, the College Work Study Program, and the Ohio College Opportunity Grant.
The student population at Notre Dame College has changed since it was first founded, with men making up the majority at 55 percent. A little more than half of the students attending Notre Dame are Catholic, and 28 percent of the college’s students are minorities. Approximately 53 percent of Notre Dame’s students live on the campus.
Notre Dame College has three traditional style residence halls and two apartment style residence halls. The good news is that there are no community hall bathrooms because all the traditional residence halls are suite-style with bathrooms shared by suites. Apartment-style residence halls feature one or two bathrooms in each apartment. Notre Dame College residence halls are also equipped with beds, desks, dressers, and a closet space. A kitchenette area is located on each floor of traditional residence halls and apartment residence halls all have a kitchenette unit in each apartment.
All three of Notre Dame’s traditional residence halls — Harks Hall, Petersen Hall and Providence Hall — are single gender and occupied primarily by freshmen students.
Opened in 2009, North Hall is an apartment-style coed residence hall occupied by the upperclassmen of Notre Dame College. It features four floors, 35 rooms, 24-hour visitation, central air conditioning, an elevator and a laundry room. South Hall, the newest Notre Dame apartment-style residence hall, has open visitation, a fitness center, community lounge, central air conditioning, an elevator, laundry rooms on each floor, and a game room. South Hall’s 104 rooms are set up as two-bedroom apartments shared by four students. Each suite has two furnished bedrooms, a kitchenette with a microwave and refrigerator, a furnished living room, and a bathroom.
The Connelly student center is the location of the campus dining hall, an all-you-can-eat facility. The Falcon Caf
With rapid enrollment growth in recent years, the Notre Dame athletic program has also expanded and now fields 23 men
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