The University of Notre Dame Australia empowers you to make a difference through our unique, holistic approach to education. Our lecturers are industry professionals and leaders in their field, guiding you to realise your academic potential. Be immersed in an intellectual tradition that has inspired the world’s best thinkers for centuries.

Embrace knowledge

Our degrees offer practical, career-focused learning which combines theoretical knowledge and workplace experience, as well as a strong foundation in ethics, to help ensure you graduate job-ready.

Pastoral care is at the heart of our ethos - including small class sizes, one-on-one contact with academic staff, mentoring programs and counselling support. We provide tailored support programs for international, interstate and regional students. We also focus on providing students with access to career guidance, practical workplace experience and direct links to employers.

Notre Dame's Core Curriculum, which incorporates the study of Philosophy, Ethics and Theology, allows you to collaborate with students of all disciplines, solve problems, ask questions and consider how you can achieve your career ambitions while building a better world.

Admission and selection

Notre Dame's admission process is multifaceted and considers every applicant on an individual basis. While each program has academic entry requirements, the University also considers the whole person, as we recognise it requires more than academic excellence to succeed in your chosen profession.

Study options

A broad range of degrees are offered in the following schools: Arts & Sciences; Education; Law & Business; Medicine; Nursing & Midwifery; Health Sciences & Physiotherapy; and Philosophy & Theology.

New programs include Occupational Therapy and Computer Science. We're also pleased to bring our Bachelor of Biomedical Science (Assured Pathway) to Fremantle for those students aspiring to go on to do a Doctor of Medicine.

Facilities and services

A national Catholic university with more than 11,000 students, Notre Dame has campuses in Fremantle and Broome in WA, Sydney in NSW and eight clinical schools in NSW and Victoria. We welcome people of all faiths or none at all. As an academic community, we encourage open and rigorous enquiry, debate and discussion.

Our Fremantle Campus is located in historic buildings in the beachside city 20 minutes south of Perth, with leafy courtyards and cafés all forming part of the quintessential university town experience.

Our Broadway Campus, located in Sydney's bustling inner-city university precinct, provides a welcoming social hub within easy walking distance from the city's CBD and Central Station.

At our Darlinghurst Campus, also in Sydney, medicine and nursing students learn in excellent facilities including simulated wards and consultation suites just a stone's throw from one of the country's top medical facilities, St Vincent's Hospital.

We are also excited to be offering nursing and midwifery programs at our Werribee Clinical School for the first time. Students primarily study online and then fulfil the practical components at our state-of-the-art facilities in Werribee.