Notre Dame of Maryland University

Private · Moderately Selective · MD

School data & stats

TypePrivate

LocationMD · South

SettingUrban

Undergrads709

Student:faculty9:1

Outcomes

4-yr grad rate42.9%

6-yr grad rate50%

Drop-out rate27.2%

Study abroad—

Cost

In-state tuition$43k

Out-of-state tuition$43k

Application fee—

Community

Racial diversity71.5%

Gender diversity78.7%

International3.5%

IdentityRoman Catholic

Overview

Notre Dame of Maryland University, in north Baltimore, was founded by the School Sisters of Notre Dame as the first Catholic college in the United States to award four-year degrees to women. That undergraduate women's college tradition continues today within a broader university that also runs coeducational graduate and professional programs, giving it a somewhat unusual dual identity on one campus.

Academics

Nursing, pharmacy, and education are the university's clearest strengths, each benefiting from Baltimore's dense concentration of hospitals, schools, and health systems for clinical and field placements. The undergraduate women's college maintains small class sizes and a liberal-arts foundation beneath its professional programs.

Campus & student life

The north Baltimore campus is compact and residential, distinct from the busier downtown Baltimore college scene, with a tradition-conscious, close community feel tied to its Catholic and women's-college heritage. Students in the graduate and professional programs, many of whom are older and commute, bring a different rhythm to campus than the traditional undergraduate population.

Worth knowing

The combination of a women's-only undergraduate college with coeducational graduate programs is genuinely distinctive — prospective undergraduate applicants should understand they are joining specifically the women's college tradition, not a fully coeducational campus.

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Admissions

Acceptance rate82.2%

Enrolled mid-50%—

Test policynot used

Rec letters0

Deadlines (2026–27 cycle)

AdmissionRolling

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