Impact Consulting Minor

Meaningful Impact. Real-World Learning. 

Apply your education towards creating lasting solutions for the world’s most pressing challenges.

Open to all undergraduate students, the Impact Consulting Minor spans multiple semesters, offering a blend of traditional learning and hands-on consulting experiences.

Three female Notre Dame students, all with glasses and casual t-shirts, crouch alongside three young women from Saint Bakhita Vocational Training Center to plant a tree. They are all smiling and reaching towards the plant, helping pack dirt in around the sapling. A light brown straw-covered field fills the background.

Tackle Wicked Problems

Consult with partners to have a measurable impact on the world’s most pressing problems – gender equity, access to education, poverty, climate change, energy, and others.

Relentlessly Human-Centered

Get out of the classroom to work hand-in-hand with those most affected, building foundations as consultants grounded in empathy, collaboration, prototyping, and iteration.

Create Sustainable Solutions

Don’t just come up with ideas – build them! Engage with partners around the globe to create sustainable value. Build solutions that have a sustainable impact, and track and report metrics.

A group of about fifteen young adults crowded into the open bed of a white pickup truck parked on a dirt path. The truck door features blue text reading "ST. BAKHITA V.T.C KALONGO AGAGO DISTRICT." The passengers, dressed in casual clothing, sit along the edges of the bed and lean against the cab while smiling at the camera. A large tree with spreading branches and a clear blue sky form the background.

It was powerful to observe how education and opportunity are creating ripple effects of confidence and long-term change well beyond the classroom.

Erin BauerClass of 2026
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What You’ll Learn

The Impact Consulting Minor at Notre Dame makes the world your classroom. Students discern their passion projects with the gateway course, Designing Your Life: The Powerful Means of Creating Purpose & Impact, then move through a sequence of courses to design ideas, pitch for funding, and build those ideas, engaging with their project partners over multiple semesters and culminating in a domestic or international immersion.

How to Apply

The application form for all minors offered by the Mendoza College of Business opens once in the fall semester and once in the spring semester.

  • Application Opens: Monday, September 14, at 12:00 p.m.
  • Application Closes: Friday, October 16, at 5:00 p.m.

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