Location
Most of “God, Country, Notre Dame” was filmed on location at the University, near South Bend, Indiana. The institution’s famed Golden Dome rises like a beacon from the Midwestern plains, beckoning students and visitors to this cathedral of learning.
Founded in 1842 by a priest of the Congregation of Holy Cross, the University of Notre Dame is an independent, national Catholic university, located approximately 90 miles southeast of Chicago. Admission is highly competitive, with five applicants for each freshman position.
The University is organized into four undergraduate colleges – Arts and Letters, Science, Engineering, and the Mendoza College of Business – as well as the School of Architecture, Law School, Graduate School, and 10 major research institutes.
Enrollment in 2003 was 11,415 students. The acceptance rate of medical school graduates is 75 percent, almost twice the national average. Notre Dame ranks first among Catholic universities in the number of doctorates earned by its undergraduate alumni – a record compiled over some 80 years.
The source of the university’s academic strength is its faculty, which has won 17 fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities in the past five years, more than for any other university in the nation.
Most of “God, Country, Notre Dame” was filmed on location at the university, near South Bend, Indiana.
With 1,250 acres containing two lakes and 137 buildings, Notre Dame is well known for the beauty of its campus.