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Our Core curriculum informs all of our undergraduate programs, whether you major in biology, business or theology.

Engaged Faculty. The Core. The Rome Experience. Capstone. Our Catholic Faith. Examine UD more closely and you’ll find answers to the question: Why UD?

Four colleges offer creative, rigorous undergraduate and graduate programs that shape thoughtful, skilled and virtuous leaders in life and work.

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WHEN ROME BECOMES REAL

At UD, dreams of Rome become reality: classes held in the Colosseum and other ancient sites of legend and history; the Vatican a short bus ride away; a rural villa to call home; and your life forever transformed.

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caroline fangman, ba '18, business, who traveled to beaumont with alternative spring break to help with hurricane recovery

“The smiles on people’s faces when we helped them were irreplaceable.”

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megan smith, d.o., ba '02 mba '18

“Both science and the Core curriculum have been integral to my success as a doctor; I probably use the Core on a daily basis.”

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News

Finding Friendship, Fraternity in Love of Music

Growing up in a half-Irish Catholic family in Cincinnati, the seven Teller children knew a household full of music. Lucy, Brother Jonah and Brother Simon Teller have used the love of music instilled during childhood by their family to become musicians and produce music of their own. READ MORE

Our Kids at Heart: The Evangelizing Power of Catholic Education

"You bring me a letter of acceptance to a Catholic school for your child, and I promise your child will attend Catholic school." This is the promise Father Mark Hamlet, BA '68 MBA '70, makes to his congregation at every Mass. The pastor of Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Austin, Hamlet has spent much of his ministry advocating for Catholic school education through his nonprofit foundation, Our Kids at Heart.

Junior Computer Science Major Interns at Google

This past summer, Yeabkal Wubshit, BA '20, earned the internship that every computer science major dreams of: a position at Google -- and spent the summer working on infrastructures for Google Service Accounts at Google's office in Sunnyvale, California.

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Events

11.09-01.27.19 | 'Sacred Transmitted: A Century of Design'

From the archives of Emil Frei & Associates, an award-winning liturgical stained glass design and fabrication studio based in St. Louis, Missouri. Run by five generations of the Frei family, the studio has made over 1,000 church windows across the United States and holds a special place within UD history. The exhibit is curated by William Frank, BA '06, who began working at the Emil Frei Studio in 2014 as an artist in residence, and UD Haggerty Gallery Manager Christina Hayes Haley. LEARN MORE