About Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College is the nation's ninth oldest college and the northernmost of the eight Ivy League institutions. Dartmouth was founded in 1769 by Rev. Eleazar Wheelock for the education of "youth of the Indian Tribes...English Youth and others." The College has been coeducational since 1972.

Located in Hanover, N.H., about two hours by auto north of Boston, Mass., Dartmouth's 200-acre main campus borders the Connecticut River in the "Upper Valley" between New Hampshire's White Mountains and the Green Mountains of Vermont.

The Undergraduate College

Dartmouth is a private, four-year, liberal arts, coeducational college with schools of business, engineering and medicine as well as 16 graduate programs in the arts and sciences. The College has about 4,300 undergraduates from all 50 states and 40 other countries.

Annually, Dartmouth receives more than 10,000 undergraduate applications and enrolls a new class of about 1,100 students. Admission to Dartmouth is need-moot and the College annually awards about $43 million in financial aid to more than half of its undergraduates.

The College is committed to providing an excellent teaching and research environment for students and faculty. The scale of the College ensures the intimacy of a liberal arts college while providing research opportunities typically found at much larger institutions.

More than 98 percent of the 400 members of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences hold either doctorate or equivalent degrees. The Arts and Sciences is comprised of 39 academic departments and programs, including interdisciplinary programs. The College community comprises a breadth of cultures, traditions and ideas in a campus environment that fosters debate and exploration. Undergraduate life is a blend of academic, cultural, social and extracurricular pursuits, all contributing to the Dartmouth experience.

The College's academic calendar, the Dartmouth Plan, is a year-round calendar of four 10-week terms that allows flexibility in scheduling. Undergraduates must be on campus freshman year, the summer before junior year, and senior year. In addition to study on campus, about 65 percent of Dartmouth undergraduates study in 35 programs in 16 countries.

Graduate Studies

Dartmouth has professional schools in business, engineering and medicine as well as graduate programs in the arts and sciences. The first Dartmouth Ph.D. was awarded in the classics in 1885 and the modern doctoral programs in the arts and sciences began in 1960. Today, more than 500 students are enrolled in 17 doctoral and seven master's programs.

Dartmouth Medical School, the nation's fourth-oldest medical school (founded in 1797), is dedicated to advancing health through the discovery and dissemination of knowledge. DMS encompasses 14 clinical and basic science departments, the Center for the Evaluative Clinical Sciences, and the Norris Cotton Cancer Center. DMS is part of the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center which also includes Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital, the Hitchcock Clinic, and the Veterans Administration Hospital in White River Junction, Vt. DMS has about 550 full-time faculty members and an enrollment of about 300 medical and 150 graduate students.

Thayer School of Engineering, founded in 1867, offered the nation's first professional engineering program designed to follow four years of undergraduate education. The school comprises both the undergraduate Department of Engineering Sciences at Dartmouth and a graduate professional school in engineering. Its interdisciplinary, non-departmental programs, conducted by nearly 40 full-time faculty members, serve about 590 undergraduates and 130 graduate students.

Founded in 1900, the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth was the first graduate school of management in the world. Approximately 240 students, all with several years of work experience and representing more than 20 nationalities and 100 undergraduate colleges, enter the MBA program each year. In addition, Tuck offers integrative non-degree programs to undergraduates, alumni and executives.

Academic Resources

Dartmouth's state-of-the-art academic buildings include 11 libraries on the College and Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center campuses. The Baker/Berry Library is central to undergraduate academic life. Holdings in Dartmouth's libraries include 2.3 million volumes, 20,000 periodicals, and six million pages of manuscripts as well as a rich collection of electronic resources.

Since 1991, personal computer ownership has been required of all undergraduates. Students, faculty and staff are all served by a campus-wide wireless network, one of the nation's first among colleges and universities.

Other academic and cultural resources at Dartmouth include the Hood Museum of Art, the Hopkins Center for the Creative and Performing Arts, and the Rauner Special Collections Library.

To learn more about Dartmouth, visit the College web site-- www.dartmouth.edu

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