University
of Notre Dame Mission
The mission of the Mendoza College of Business is to build
a premier Catholic business school that fosters academic excellence,
professional effectiveness and personal accountability in
a context that strives to be faithful to the Catholic ideals
for community, human development and personal integrity. We're
home to more than 2200 students engaged in undergraduate,
graduate and executive studies. Dean Carolyn Woo leads a renowned
faculty of teachers and scholars.

University
of Notre Dame - Mendoza College of Business History
The Mendoza College of Business was founded in 1921 by a Holy
Cross priest named John F. O'Hara. Rev. O'Hara later became
the president of the University and a Cardinal of the Catholic
Church. "The primary function of commerce is service
to mankind," said Rev. O'Hara when discussing the College
mission. "Business has a code of ethics based very largely
on divine principles. When this code is followed, commerce
can and does advance civilization. When it is overlooked by
selfish interests, individual or national, every sort of injustice,
from petty thievery to world war, may result." Four years
earlier, in 1917, Notre Dame had become the first university
in the United States to launch a four-year program of study
in "foreign commerce."
Carolyn Woo, Martin J. Gillen Dean and Ray and Milann Siegfried
Chair in Entrepreneurial Studies, joined the College in June
of 1997. In March of 2000, the College of Business received
a naming gift from Network Appliance executives, Tom and Kathy
Mendoza. The Mendoza College of Business includes over 2200
students in the following degree programs: Bachelor of Business
Administration, Master of Business Administration, Executive
Master of Business Administration, Master of Science in Accountancy,
Master of Nonprofit Administration (MNA).
The University of Notre Dame was founded in 1842 by a French
priest of the Congregation of Holy Cross, Rev. Edward Sorin.
Today, Notre Dame is rated among the nation's top 25 institutions
of higher learning in surveys conducted by U.S. News &
World Report, Princeton Review, Time, Kiplinger's and Kaplan/Newsweek
and one of a handful of truly international universities,
with a student body of more than 8,000 undergraduate and 3,000
graduate students drawn from all 50 states and over 100 foreign
countries.
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