Total applicants for admission this past year: 9,745
Total offered admission: 3,336
Percentage who chose to enroll: 59
Number of universities with a better enrollment percentage: 4 (in order, Harvard, Stanford, Princeton, Yale)
Percentage of undergraduate admission applicants from Indiana: 6
Percentage of enrolled undergrads from Indiana: 8
Top three states of origin for undergrad applicants: Illinois, California, Ohio
Top three states of origin for enrolled undergrads: Illinois, Ohio, Indiana
Percentage of legacies (undergrads with one or more parents with a Notre Dame degree) in the current study body: 22
Percentage of undergrads who lettered in at least one high school sport: 70
Percentage who captained a team: 38
Current number of African-American undergrads: 265
Total in 1971-72: 139
Percentage of current graduate students who are U.S. citizens: 76
Percentage of the football team roster made up of walk-ons (non-scholarship athletes): 26
Percentage of undergrads who engage in some form of service work: 85
Most popular form: Center for Social Concerns “Social Concerns Seminars” (e.g., Urban Plunge, Appalachia Seminar)
Percentage of dining hall food “wasted” (prepared but not eaten on site, some of which is donated to charitable groups): 2
Percentage of all campus waste that is recycled: 60
Most popular cold beverage in the dining halls: Coca-Cola
Most popular entree: chicken strips
Toilet paper used campuswide per year: 89.1 million feet (16,888 miles — enough to wrap around the moon 2.6 times)
Official library holdings: approaching 3 million volumes
Number of items currently classified as lost or missing: 4,162 (0.1 percent)
Number of instrumentalists in the Band of the Fighting Irish: 350
Approximate number of notes they play, combined, during a halftime show: 11.8 million
Water consumed by the band during a game: 325 gallons
Capacity of the campus water tower: 500,000 gallons
Cost to repaint one football helmet: $5
Cost to buy a new one: $150
Typical number of hot dogs sold during a home football game: 17,000
Number of living ex-head ND football coaches: 5 (Brennan, Parseghian, Faust, Holtz, Davie); 6 if you count George O’Leary
Number of living ex-presidents: 1 (Hesburgh)
Days of vacation Father Malloy took last year: 5
Average salary for a full professor: $109,900
Average starting salary for a member of the Class of 2001: $40,859
Average for Arts and Letters grads: $32,533; Science: $32,895; Architecture: $33,109; Business: $45,608; Engineering: $49,083
Average salary at graduation for a 2002 Notre Dame MBA: $71,147; Average sign-on bonus: $10,143
Percentage of undergraduate students who identify themselves as Catholic: 84
Percentage of faculty who do so: 52
Total Holy Cross priests at Notre Dame (including Moreau Seminary and Holy Cross House): 110
Percentage who live in Corby Hall: 50
Number of Masses said on campus each week during the school year: approximately 125
Moreau Seminary’s enrollment: 27; its current capacity: 35
Campus acreage: 1,250
Total sidewalks: 16 miles
Total sprinkler heads: approximately 70,000
Total University employees, 2002: 4,758
Total 30 years ago: 2,498
Total athletic department employees who work exclusively for the football program: 18
Total exclusive to the baseball program: 4
Tuition + room and board, 1972-73: $3,444-$3,604 depending on housing and amenities
Tuition + room and board, 2002: $32,020