Drawing from the riches of the Catholic intellectual and social tradition, the Saint John Henry Newman Undergraduate Program gathers bright and eager students together in order to foster vibrant Catholic culture and community on The Catholic University of America campus.

The Program also exists to integrate various facets of an undergraduate student’s life — social, intellectual, and spiritual — as well as to bring the disciplines of the University into conversation with each other in order to arrive at the whole of Truth. As such, the program is open to undergraduate students of all majors and levels of study.

Students in our Program enjoy reading groups, liturgical and cultural enrichment,
and opportunities for paid internships with the IHE and partner institutions. In
connection with Passages Israel, we also offer an international pilgrimage to the Holy Land.

The goal of the program, to “give to the Republic her best citizens” (Pope Leo XIII), is accomplished by inculcating students with a deep and thriving sense of human ecology. We prepare them to complete their university studies with cultured minds, deepened faith, and civic virtue.