Impact

University of Notre Dame TRIO Programs By the Numbers

The University of Notre Dame hosts two Department of Education TRIO Programs: Upward Bound and Talent Search. 

• Launched by Rev. Theodore Hesburh, C.S.C. in 1966, Notre Dame's Upward Bound program is one of the oldest and most successful college preparatory programs of its kind in the nation. 
• Notre Dame was awarded its first Talent Search grant for the South Bend community in 1980.
• Notre Dame's TRIO Programs serve four target high schools in the South Bend community. 
• Notre Dame is one of seven schools in the U.S. News and World Report's top 25 universities in the nation to host one or more of TRIO's college access and preparatory programs. 
• Notre Dame's TRIO Talent Search Program serves seventh- and eighth-graders at eight target intermediate centers. 
• Ninety-seven percent of the TRIO Talent Search participants have graduated from high school since 2002.
• Ninety-eight percent of TRIO Upward Bound students have enrolled in college since 2002. 
• Notre Dame Talent Search annually serves 899 students (a combination of both intermediate and high school students).
• Two-thousand TRIO Upward Bound students have successfully graduated from high school and gone on to higher education since the program's inception. 
• Twenty-four-thousand+ TRIO Talent Search students between the ages of 12 and 27 have received academic, career, and financial counseling since the inception of the program.