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== History ==
The Roman Catholic academic/educational religious congregation of the School Sisters of Notre Dame founded the school in 1873. It originally established and named the "Notre Dame of Maryland Preparatory School and Collegiate Institute".
Originally founded as a preparatory school (today's equivalent of elementary, middle, and high schools), the "College of Notre Dame of Maryland" was raised to the level of a four-year college for undergraduates in 1895. The lower preparatory school (high school in modern terminology) moved from CND's North Charles Street location to its current campus further north in suburban Baltimore County at the county seat of Towson in 1960, and is now known as Notre Dame Preparatory School.
In 1896, the Collegiate Institute became the first four-year Roman Catholic college for women in the United States.
In 2011, the College of Notre Dame of Maryland attained university status with the addition of several graduate-level programs and changed its name to Notre Dame …
