Residential Life

Residential Tradition

From our earliest days, residential life has been a defining characteristic of a Notre Dame education. The first campus buildings combined classrooms with living quarters for students, faculty, and staff. Today, the University includes 28 undergraduate single-sex residence halls and two graduate housing facilities. A new women’s hall is slated to open in August 2009, and we hope to build two additional halls within the next five years.

Commitment to Service

One hundred sixty-six years after its founding, our residential tradition remains an abiding feature of the Notre Dame experience. Community, faith, friendship, service, intellectual engagement—these hallmarks of life at Notre Dame are still nurtured within the residence halls, just as they were in Father Sorin’s time. What has changed significantly is the wealth of services available to assist and to support students with an array of interests, activities, needs, and concerns. Twelve student-service departments comprise the Division of Student Affairs; from Campus Ministry to the University Counseling Center, Student Affairs offers an array of services that help to make a Notre Dame education among the very best in the nation.

Photos on this page courtesy of Dome yearbook staff.