The University of Notre Dame Australia is a national Catholic university with campuses in Fremantle, Broome and Sydney, serving more than 12,000 students. The University’s School of Medicine has eight clinical schools in Sydney, Melbourne, and rural New South Wales and Victoria.

Notre Dame offers a wide range of undergraduate, postgraduate and research degrees across three faculties — Arts, Sciences, Law and Business; Education, Philosophy and Theology; and Medicine, Nursing, Midwifery and Health Sciences.

The University provides excellent standards of teaching, scholarship, professional training and research with established networks in healthcare, education and social services. It has developed a solid platform of research engagement across four principal research institutes: the Institute for Ethics & Society in Sydney, the Centre for the History of Philosophy in Sydney, the Institute for Health Research in Fremantle and the Nulungu Research Institute based in Broome.

Notre Dame offers a distinctive, holistic approach, with an emphasis on career-focused education, combining academic knowledge with practical workplace experience and a foundation in ethics. This approach ensures graduates are job-ready, equipped with critical thinking skills, courage and confidence to contribute to the common good.

Notre Dame empowers students to be adaptive to the challenges of ever-changing work environments by encouraging them to view the world from a new perspective. This approach ensures Notre Dame graduate employment outcomes are among the best in Australia.

In 2021, Notre Dame gained Table A status, increasing student access to vital government funding, including CSPs and HEPPP. The University was also recently awarded five stars for learner engagement, skills development, graduate salary, and full-time employment in the Good Universities Guide 2024 for both undergraduate and postgraduate categories