Notre Dame of Maryland University's education approach has prepared thousands of high performers and instigators of social change for more than a century. We are consistently responsive to the needs of a student body hungry to learn and a world hungry for knowledgeable, compassionate leaders.
NDMU embodies the pioneering educational tradition and social justice mission that spurred the College of Notre Dame to welcome the first class of women pursuing a four-year baccalaureate degree in 1895.
We offer Maryland's only women's college, as well as certificate, undergraduate, graduate, and Ph.D. programs for women and men. Our transformative educational model will help prepare you for leadership and success.
We transform women and men into leaders who change the world. With more than 100 years' experience providing an innovative Catholic education grounded in mindfulness of the world around us, we promote intellectual and professional excellence in tandem with others' service.
Notre Dame of Maryland University educates leaders to transform the world. Embracing the founders' vision, the School Sisters of Notre Dame, the University promotes the advancement of women and provides a liberal arts education in the Catholic tradition.
We were the first Catholic college for women in America to offer the rigorous four-year education men already received. Our founders, the School Sisters of Notre Dame, brought their internationally renowned teaching skills to Baltimore in 1847. Since then, over 22,000 graduates have carried the Sisters' values of truth, integrity, and intellectual inquiry into the world.
Though grounded in tradition, Notre Dame continues to respond to changes in education and society. While the Women's College still offers the benefits of focused, single-sex education, we meet the needs of adult women and men with career-focused undergraduate and graduate programs designed around their real-life schedules.
Whether your passion is NASA or nursing, you will find a Notre Dame graduate at the top of the field. Our Women's College graduates excel in male-dominated sectors such as science and engineering. In our adult studies, men and women also serve in the military, improve educational policy, write books, start nonprofits, improve their communities, and, everywhere, lead.
Institutional Effectiveness at NDMU is a process that results from University-wide efforts to collect, analyze, and use data for the planning, implementation, and assessment of strategic goals to reflect on its past and commit to its future.
Our low faculty-to-student ratio means that our students work closely, often side-by-side, with their professors. The result is that they carry out significant research projects and publish their work, even as undergraduates. Notre Dame Maryland University provides a balanced, career-focused education in a thriving intellectual community. With nearly 80 programs and caring, expert faculty, we help women and men gain the knowledge they need to create real and meaningful change.
Today's students celebrate many of the same traditions introduced generations ago. Every autumn, the campus community comes together as incoming students recite the Honor Pledge in the presence of family, friends, faculty members, and the administration. On Notre Dame Day, students are recognized for their commitment to service and academic achievement. One hundred nights before their graduation, Women's College seniors come together to reflect on their undergraduate experiences and anticipate commencement excitement. The School Sisters of Notre Dame remain at the heart of campus life as educators, administrators, colleagues, and mentors.
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The story of Notre Dame begins with a journey from Germany. In the summer of 1847, Mother Mary Theresa of Jesus Gerhardinger, foundress of the SSNDs, traveled to America with five sisters on a mission to educate those neglected by society — poor girls and women. Soon the SSNDs were teaching in four schools, including three in downtown Baltimore.
By 1871 the sisters selected a beautiful 33-acre site in North Baltimore that would accommodate its burgeoning student populations and future expansion. In 1873, Notre Dame of Maryland Collegiate Institute, educating elementary and high school-aged girls, opened on Charles Street, where the present University is located today. As the turn of the century neared, the SSNDs had developed an international reputation for their teaching quality and rigor.
For more than a century, Notre Dame's 22,000 alumnae and alumni have gone on to lead extraordinary lives of service and achievement. They have built buildings and families, made scientific discoveries, run for office and in marathons, become military leaders and SSNDs, served as CEOs and in soup kitchens. Their lives prove time and again the powerful legacy of the founding SSNDs, whose mission remains: Transforming the world through education.
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