Notre Dame University–Louaize

The name was changed to its present name on August 14, 1987, when the President of the Lebanese Republic issued a decree (number 4116),[1] granting the right to operate an independent university.

In 1978, the Order started a new project and Reverend Bechara Boutros Rahi (a former member of the Order and current Maronite Patriarch) founded, in cooperation with Beirut University College (BUC), now the Lebanese American University (LAU), the Louaize College for Higher Education (LCHE), the nucleus of today's NDU.

The legal finalization of this project was the promulgation of Decree 4116 by the President of The Lebanese Republic on August 14, 1987, granting the right to operate an independent university.

The first phase of the construction project, completed in the summer of 1997 and totaling 100,000 square meters of floor space, accommodates the administration, the library, the museum, the computer center, the classrooms, the laboratories, and the restaurant.

In the present phase, NDU has finished building the faculty residences, student dormitories, theater, and parking areas.

Consequently, the NDU Libraries provide access to a continuously expanding collection of core reference and circulating materials in print, manuscript, electronic, audio, visual, cartographic, and other appropriate formats.