Central to undergraduate education at the University of Notre Dame is the core curriculum, a set of requirements that apply to all students, regardless of major. While the approach to the core will necessarily evolve over time, the goal is always the same: to provide students with a common foundation in learning that will make a unique contribution to their intellectual and personal development as well as their lives after Notre Dame.

"The University prides itself on being an environment of teaching and learning that fosters the development in its students of those disciplined habits of mind, body and spirit that characterize educated, skilled and free human beings."– University of Notre Dame mission statement