Class Acts

Notre Dame’s Class of 2009 can be defined collectively, through a variety of numerical and statistical observations. Some of the numbers are:

• About 95 percent of the students who enrolled at Notre Dame as freshmen in the fall of 2005 received a diploma May 17, 2009 — a graduation rate exceeded only by Harvard and Princeton Universities.

• Some 80 percent of the graduates participated in volunteer and service-learning programs in the greater South Bend area, nationwide and around the world.

• About 10 percent of this year’s seniors will continue in volunteer service to society, engaging in a year or more of work in programs such as the Peace Corps, Teach for America, the Jesuit Volunteer Corps, and Notre Dame’s own Alliance for Catholic Education and Holy Cross Associates.

View the video highlighting 2009 graduating seniors.