Fellowship Record
The exceptional scholarship of the Arts and Letters faculty has a strong record of attracting research funding from private foundations, corporations, and the federal government.
Over the past two decades, the number of faculty who have received major national fellowships in the arts, humanities, and social sciences—including Guggenheim, ACLS, and Fulbright awards, among others—places Notre Dame among the Top 5 private research universities in the nation.
Our faculty has also had record success with the National Endowment for the Humanities—earning more than any other university in the country since 1999.
NEH Fellowships
1999–2021
1. University of Notre Dame – 68
2. Harvard University – 35
3. Princeton University – 32
4. University of Chicago – 33
5. Washington University (St. Louis) – 25
6. Columbia University – 22
Northwestern University – 22
Georgetown University – 22
9. University of Pennsylvania – 19
10. Dartmouth College – 18
Fellowships Awarded to Liberal Arts Faculty at
Leading Private Research Universities
1999–2021 (as of September)
1. Princeton University – 289
2. University of Chicago – 268
3. Harvard University – 267
4. Columbia University – 237
5. University of Notre Dame – 217
6. Northwestern University – 196
7. University of Pennsylvania – 183
8. Duke University – 162
9. Yale University – 159
10. Stanford University – 155
Note: All fellowship numbers are taken from the fellowship lists provided by the funding agencies. The statistics include only faculty (rather than dissertation or pre-doctoral) fellowships. They also include only fellowships given to faculty in departments equivalent to those in Notre Dame’s College of Arts and Letters (humanities, arts, and social sciences). Fellowships awarded to scientists and engineers were excluded for the purpose of comparing Notre Dame’s College of Arts and Letters to other universities.