The exact page text, read by your browser's voice.
As of November 2026
The leadership: The banked file's line stands current. Robert A. Dowd remains the university's 18th president, in office since June 1, 2024. Below him, the provost's chair — the university's second office — is held by John T. McGreevy, the Charles and Jill Fischer Provost, in office since July 1, 2022; in May 2026 the university elected him to a second five-year term beginning July 1, 2027. The succession the modern entry records has not moved since it was banked.
The enrollment: The banked line — 13,016 students in the fall of 2024, 8,854 of them undergraduates — is extended by the university's own Common Data Set for 2025–26: the fall 2025 census counts 13,204 students in all, 8,950 of them undergraduates. That is the latest census the university has published; no fall 2026 figure had been published as of November 2026, and the fall 2025 count is printed as the present line, dated.
The endowment: The banked figure stands as the latest published: 20.09 billion dollars for fiscal 2025, confirmed as the university's most recent official value in the NACUBO–Commonfund study of fiscal 2025 endowments. The university had published no fiscal 2026 figure in the record reached as of November 2026; the line is re-dated, not replaced — fiscal 2025's 20.09 billion is the present published figure, and the fiscal 2023 figure of 16.62 billion behind it in the banked entry stays as the series.
The research line, settled: The banked entry's hedge — fiscal 2017 awards of 138.1 million dollars, "then a record, since surpassed" — is now a series on the university's own research record. Notre Dame Research's published figures give fiscal 2017 at 138,087,014 dollars across 688 awards, confirming the banked number to the dollar; fiscal 2025 at 217,753,474 dollars across 823 awards; and fiscal 2026 at 246,105,468 dollars across 777 awards — announced by the university on October 20, 2026 as the highest value of external research awards in its history, on 1,327 proposals requesting 1,087,439,408 dollars. The note's named gap closes on the university's own table.
The employment rank, re-logged: The town-and-gown entry's employment account rests on the university's commissioned studies — the fiscal 2006 study's 5,039 employees, then the county's largest employer, and the fiscal 2016 study's 5,825 in the fall of 2015, "one of the largest employers, public or private, in St. Joseph County." This pass reached no independent, present-day county ranking that settles the university's rank in 2026: the county's other claimant, Beacon Health System, publishes its size as a multi-county regional figure of more than 7,000 employees, which is not a county headcount and settles nothing. The file therefore asserts no present rank. The settling source, when it publishes, is a current county-level employer ranking or Beacon's own county figure; until then the commissioned studies stand at their dates.
Sources:
- Office of the Provost, biography of John T. McGreevy (provost.nd.edu), read November 2026 — provost since July 1, 2022; elected May 2026 to a second five-year term beginning July 1, 2027.
- University of Notre Dame, Common Data Set 2025–26 (posted at iris.nd.edu; consulted in a full rendering of the set) — fall 2025 enrollment of 13,204 in all, 8,950 undergraduates.
- NACUBO–Commonfund Study of Endowments, fiscal 2025 table — Notre Dame's fiscal 2025 endowment of 20.09 billion dollars as the latest published value; no fiscal 2026 university figure published as of November 2026.
- Notre Dame Research, "Facts & Figures" (research.nd.edu) — research awards: fiscal 2017, 138,087,014 dollars, 688 awards; fiscal 2025, 217,753,474 dollars, 823 awards; fiscal 2026, 246,105,468 dollars, 777 awards.
- Notre Dame News, October 20, 2026 — fiscal 2026 "the highest value of external research awards in the institution's history"; 1,327 proposals, 1,087,439,408 dollars requested.
- Appleseed economic impact studies for the university, fiscal 2006 and fiscal 2016 (July 2017 report) — the commissioned employment figures carried in the banked town-and-gown entry; no independent 2026 county ranking reached.