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Notre Dame of Maryland University has decided to break a century old tradition to allow men to enroll in the higher education institution beginning in fall of 2023, announced university officials.
The NDMU Board of Trustees voted unanimously to allow the institution's undergraduate program to become co-educational after analyzing factors related to enrollment trends of women's colleges.
“The Board recognized that in order for NDMU to flourish for years to come, we needed to expand our mission to admit women and men who want a co-ed college experience,” said Patricia McLaughlin, SSND ’66, chair of the Board of Trustees. “NDMU will continue to educate women and men together to make a difference in the world.”
NDMU was the first Catholic college to award a four-year degree option to women, as well as the first college or university in the state of Maryland to offer both undergraduate and graduate degree programs in art therapy after launching the programs in 2018.
The decision to allow men to enroll in undergraduate degree programs also comes as an effort to provide more higher education opportunities for men, who "graduate from college at lower rates than female students", according to NDMU officials.
Notre Dame of Maryland was founded in 1895 and has been named one of the best "Regional Universities North" by U.S. News & World Report.
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