The Notre Dame MBA
An Immersive Full-time MBA Experience
Your journey begins in the heart of the Notre Dame campus, where personalized leadership development and experiential learning opportunities are at your fingertips. As you move through the program, you’ll benefit from a community of extraordinary students, exceptional faculty, and a world-renowned alumni network dedicated to your academic, personal and professional advancement.
Ranked #4 Global Alumni Network
Recognized by the Financial Times (2024) for the effectiveness of our alumni network in providing career opportunities, starting companies, gaining new ideas, and recruiting staff.
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What You’ll Learn
Tailored MBA Majors
Whatever impact you want to make, the Notre Dame Master of Business Administration can provide you with a robust toolkit necessary to tackle the challenges of today’s complex business world. Pair one of five majors (three of which are STEM-designated) with one or more targeted minors to create a unique academic experience and help you achieve your career goals.
Real-World Application
Experiential learning is a vital component of your business education at Mendoza. See the real-world effects of business decisions firsthand through hands-on experiences such as Business on the Frontlines, immersive Mods Away in San Francisco or Chile, and intensive Grow Irish Week projects.
We Do Leadership Differently
At Mendoza, we recognize that you are more than a student; you are a unique individual with values and gifts that can benefit both business and society. We structure your academic experience to not only reveal the best person you can be, but to shape you into a business leader who powerfully contributes to a better future for all humanity.
120
Average Cohort Size
710
Median GMAT Score
315
Median GRE Score
5 Years
Average Work Experience
3.3
Average Undergraduate GPA
20%
U.S. Military Veterans
Hear From Our Students
Learn more about the student experience from current MBA candidates:
Career Development
The MBA Career Development team will help leverage your skills, values, and experiences to obtain a meaningful career. We provide a full range of opportunities that allow you to customize your individual career development for success. A well designed and executed career plan empowers you to make a positive impact on the world.
Investment Banking
$225K median salary plus bonus
Strategy Consulting
$215K median salary plus bonus
Technology
$165.5K median salary plus bonus
A central component of your career development experience is our Career Leadership Course, which meets twice per week during Module 1 – your first seven weeks on campus. The course provides a strong foundation for your career development, consisting of the following phases:
You will benefit from tailored, individual career coaching that works best for you – you schedule the meetings, drive the agenda and lead the conversations. You’ll connect with a career coach before you even set foot on campus. Our coaches have industry experience, coaching training and a deep commitment to understanding your personal ambitions. Our coaches help you align with your intrinsic values, leverage your strengths, and ignite your passion.
At Mendoza, you’ll have the opportunity to interact with corporate representatives through hundreds of on-campus touchpoints each year and plug into Notre Dame’s world-class alumni network.
Travel with fellow students to the San Francisco Bay Area to talk business with companies like Salesforce, Cisco, Intel or Google; head to Wall Street in New York City to discuss investment banking or finance with Citi, Deutsche Bank, JP Morgan, and more; or join your classmates in Chicago to explore a variety of consulting firms or mingle with top companies in the tech, marketing and financial sector including United, Amazon, Google, JP Morgan Chase & Kellogg’s.
Learn more about Employer Touchpoints.
Discover the influence of the MBA Global Network, ranked #4 by the Financial Times in 2024, one of the most valuable assets of the MBA program. Our career development team guides you in harnessing this wealth of resources, offering support in areas such as industry insights, skill development, and networking opportunities.
- Amazon
- American Airlines
- AT&T
- Baird
- Bank of America
- Barclays
- Citi
- Cognizant
- Deloitte
- Ecolab
- EY
- EY-Parthenon
- Ford Motor Company
- Goldman Sachs
- Guggenheim Partners
- IBM
- JPMorgan Chase & Co.
- LEK Consulting
- McKinsey & Company
- Microsoft
- Procter & Gamble
- PwC
- The Walt Disney Company
- Truist
- UBS
- Whirlpool Corporation
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Our Community
We are wholeheartedly invested in your personal, academic and professional growth. Be challenged by world-class faculty. Collaborate with a tight-knit cohort of students from a wide range of personal and professional backgrounds. Be inspired by an accomplished and supportive alumni network. The Notre Dame family provides a lifetime of mutual support that is unmatched.
"If you want that experience of a smaller program, where you get to make more meaningful relations, and you're also looking for a very powerful and involved network, then this is the place for you."FERNANDO QUIJANO, MBA '20
