Which Notre Dame major has the lowest debt?

Liberal Arts and General Studies graduates leave with a median of $18,800 in federal loans, the lowest among 29 Notre Dame bachelor's programs that report debt.

How much does Notre Dame cost?

Tuition and fees are $65,025 a year for all students. After grants and scholarships, the average net price is $26,780 a year.

How many Notre Dame programs report graduate pay?

32 bachelor's programs at Notre Dame report first-year pay, and 29 of them also report federal debt.

Notre Dame Programs, Ranked by Graduate Pay and Debt

University of Notre Dame
Private nonprofit university
Notre Dame, IN
8,818 undergraduates

College Scorecard June 2026 release

The short answer

32 Notre Dame bachelor's programs report what graduates earn. Finance pays the most in the first year ($99,222), and Neuroscience the least ($24,615). The median program pays $67,332.

Tuition and fees$65,025Per year, for all students

Average net price after aid$26,780Per year

Graduation rate95%Within 6 years

Admission rate11%Of applicants

All 32 bachelor's programs, ranked

Each figure is the median for the program's graduates. "Rank in Indiana" compares first-year pay with the same field's bachelor's programs across Indiana. Programs that don't report a figure are listed last when you sort by it.

#	Program	Year 1 pay	Year 5 pay	Debt	Rank in Indiana
1	FinanceAbout 271 graduates a year	$99,222	$138,141	$19,000	1st of 16
2	Computer and Information ScienceAbout 162 graduates a year	$96,517	$149,206	$19,000	1st of 9
3	Other MathematicsAbout 120 graduates a year	$89,689	$130,029	$19,000	1st of 1
4	Electrical EngineeringAbout 60 graduates a year	$85,861	$114,810	$19,000	1st of 9
5	Mechanical EngineeringAbout 101 graduates a year	$84,999	$95,893	$19,000	1st of 9
6	Management ScienceAbout 115 graduates a year	$83,810	Not reported	$19,000	1st of 5
7	Chemical EngineeringAbout 70 graduates a year	$83,377	$113,065	$19,000	1st of 4
8	Aerospace EngineeringAbout 25 graduates a year	$81,057	$98,886	$24,000	1st of 2
9	Management Information SystemsAbout 3 graduates a year	$78,507	$129,875	Not reported	1st of 3
10	AccountingAbout 70 graduates a year	$76,878	$109,595	$19,000	1st of 18
11	EconomicsAbout 256 graduates a year	$76,299	$120,257	$19,965	1st of 8
12	Biological and Physical SciencesAbout 61 graduates a year	$75,418	$84,885	$19,000	1st of 2
13	Civil EngineeringAbout 28 graduates a year	$74,499	$94,259	$20,100	1st of 6
14	BusinessAbout 41 graduates a year	$73,170	$93,971	Not reported	1st of 12
15	East Asian LanguagesAbout 10 graduates a year	$71,769	$81,750	$21,040	1st of 2
16	International StudiesAbout 48 graduates a year	$69,362	Not reported	Not reported	1st of 2
17	MathematicsAbout 38 graduates a year	$65,302	$99,072	$19,000	2nd of 7
18	Environmental EngineeringAbout 13 graduates a year	$64,675	Not reported	$25,000	2nd of 2
19	MarketingAbout 71 graduates a year	$63,906	$90,154	$19,000	1st of 16
20	ArchitectureAbout 54 graduates a year	$62,957	$78,022	$28,419	1st of 2
21	Political ScienceAbout 175 graduates a year	$55,316	$81,595	$19,000	1st of 10
22	Design and Applied ArtsAbout 28 graduates a year	$46,825	$81,608	$20,250	1st of 7
23	Romance LanguagesAbout 74 graduates a year	$46,030	$78,861	$19,250	1st of 7
24	Theology and MinistryAbout 51 graduates a year	$45,874	$48,541	$19,000	1st of 1
25	Liberal Arts and General StudiesAbout 35 graduates a year	$45,579	$87,620	$18,800	1st of 18
26	EnglishAbout 43 graduates a year	$40,345	$65,653	$19,500	1st of 12
27	HistoryAbout 49 graduates a year	$39,522	$83,573	$19,000	2nd of 6
28	TheatreAbout 61 graduates a year	$37,531	$62,555	$19,000	1st of 5
29	SociologyAbout 40 graduates a year	$35,915	$88,792	$19,800	4th of 10
30	Area StudiesAbout 29 graduates a year	$35,304	$58,279	$19,250	1st of 1
31	BiologyAbout 80 graduates a year	$32,876	$67,689	$20,750	14th of 17
32	NeuroscienceAbout 136 graduates a year	$24,615	Not reported	$19,500	4th of 4

Program names link to the program's own page, and Indiana ranks link to the full ranking for the field. A program gets its own page when it reports both pay and debt and at least five Indiana programs in the field do too.

6 more bachelor's programs report debt but not pay, so they aren't listed.

Quick picks

Highest first-year pay

Finance$99,222
Computer and Information Science$96,517
Other Mathematics$89,689
Electrical Engineering$85,861
Mechanical Engineering$84,999

Lowest median debt

Largest programs

FinanceAbout 271 graduates a year
EconomicsAbout 256 graduates a year
Political ScienceAbout 175 graduates a year
Computer and Information ScienceAbout 162 graduates a year
NeuroscienceAbout 136 graduates a year

Common questions

Finance graduates earn a median of $99,222 in their first year, the most of 32 Notre Dame bachelor's programs that report pay.

About this data

Earnings and debt only include students who received federal financial aid, and earnings only count graduates who were working and not enrolled in more school.
Debt only includes federal loans. Private loans and credit cards are not counted.
Tuition, net price, graduation rate, and admission rate are for the whole school, not one program.
Some schools with several campuses report one combined figure for all of them. We count each of those schools once, and leave them out of Indiana rankings when their main campus is in another state.
Scorecard figures describe graduating classes from several years ago.

Sources

U.S. Department of Education, College Scorecard, field of study and institution files, June 2026 release
NCES, IPEDS tuition and fees, 2023-24, for in-district tuition labels