Graduate Student Life
Gifted graduate students from around the globe come to the University of Notre Dame to become a part of our vibrant intellectual community.
That community has several ever-expanding circles. The first consists of faculty and students in your department or program. They will form both your intellectual and social base, and become trusted advisers and close friends.
Then there are the more than 1,900 graduate students in departments and programs at Notre Dame outside your own. With some of your fellow students, you will undertake challenging interdisciplinary pursuits. With even more, you will discover common interests in the many cultural, spiritual, and recreational activities available on our remarkably beautiful campus. Music, theatre, cinema, and art exhibits are plentiful at Notre Dame’s Marie P. DeBartolo Performing Arts Center and Snite Museum of Art; and spiritual and recreational opportunities are interwoven into campus life. An array of campus offices and organizations are here to support you as you explore any of these interests.
The third circle is the larger South Bend community. The South Bend area is large enough to offer students many of the amenities of cosmopolitan living, but not so large as to be unmanageable. With its own distinctive cultural and recreational activities—and extremely affordable housing market—most students quickly feel a part of the city that is home to our University.
The links below offer more information on traveling to and living in the South Bend area. Those to your left provide fuller coverage of some of the rich resources available for graduate students on campus and in the community.
