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The University of Notre Dame is renowned worldwide for academic excellence, and gifted students from around the globe join us to be part of our vibrant intellectual community. As a graduate student at Notre Dame, you will benefit from generous financial support that allows you to focus on your degree objectives and from exposure to and participation in innovative, collaborative, and interdisciplinary pursuits. Our graduate students partake in a rich array of professional development opportunities that enable them to become the academic and professional leaders of tomorrow.
Some markers of our academic excellence are:
* Rapid growth in research expenditures - Academic year 2008-2009 expenditures were $105 million, $29 million higher than expenditures in the 2004-2005 academic year (source: National Science Foundation Total Research Expenditure Report);
* Our faculty have won more National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Fellowships (42) than any other faculty in the country over the last eleven years (immediately following Notre Dame are the University of Michigan with 32, Harvard with 25, Princeton with 21, and the University of California at Berkeley with 19);
* Extremely selective and attractive programs - some matriculate only 9% of applicants and attract 90% of the students to whom they make offers of admission.
* Placement by recent graduates at leading universities such as Harvard, Yale, and the University of Chicago; and with employers as varied as Boeing, IBM, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Argonne National Laboratory, Eli Lilly and Company, DuPont, General Electric, and the Mobil Oil Company.
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