Dartmouth College

General Information

Founded: 1769
Type: Four-year private, liberal arts
Students: Approximately 4,200 undergraduate, 1,800 graduate
Color: Dartmouth Green
Nickname: Big Green

Mission Statement

Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.

Our Core Values

Dartmouth expects academic excellence and encourages independence of thought within a culture of collaboration.
Dartmouth faculty are passionate about teaching our students and are at the forefront of their scholarly or creative work.
Dartmouth embraces diversity with the knowledge that it significantly enhances the quality of a Dartmouth education.
Dartmouth recruits and admits outstanding students from all backgrounds, regardless of their financial means.
Dartmouth fosters lasting bonds among faculty, staff, and students, which encourage a culture of integrity, self-reliance, and collegiality and instill a sense of responsibility for each other and for the broader world.
Dartmouth supports the vigorous and open debate of ideas within a community marked by mutual respect.

OUR LEGACY

Since its founding in 1769 to educate Native students, English youth, and others, Dartmouth has provided an intimate and inspirational setting where talented faculty, students, and staff - diverse in background but united in purpose - contribute to the strength of an exciting academic community that cuts easily across disciplines.

Dartmouth is committed to providing the best undergraduate liberal arts experience and to providing outstanding graduate programs in the Dartmouth Medical School (founded 1797), the Thayer School of Engineering (1867), the Tuck School of Business (1900), and the graduate programs in the Arts and Sciences. Together they constitute an exceptional and rich learning environment. Dartmouth faculty and student research contributes substantially to the expansion of human understanding.

Student Information

Established in 1769 and a member of the Ivy League, Dartmouth is a superb undergraduate residential college with the intellectual character of a university, featuring thriving research and first-rate graduate and professional programs. The quality of the undergraduate experience is enhanced by close student-faculty interaction, opportunities for independent research, a broad range of off-campus programs, and a diverse student body. Graduate programs include Dartmouth Medical School, graduate programs in the Arts and Sciences, Thayer School of Engineering, and the Tuck School of Business.

Tuition, room, board and fees for 2010-11

Undergraduate: tuition $39,978; room, board, and mandatory fees $12,297;
Total cost of attendance $55,386
Graduate Arts and Sciences: $39,978
Dartmouth Medical School: $45,075
Thayer School of Engineering: $39,978
Tuck School of Business: $50,700

Enrollment (Fall 2009)

Undergraduate: 4,196 (2,119 men, 2,077 women)
Graduate/professional: 1,791 (1,049 men, 742 women)
Total enrollment head count: 5,987

Undergraduate Admissions

For the Class of 2013:

18,132 applications
1,094 students enrolled
Admission to the College is need-blind

Financial Aid

Undergraduate financial aid expenditures 2009-10: $82.2 million from all sources
Average three-term scholarship: approximately $33,000
Nearly 60 percent of undergraduates receive scholarships from Dartmouth

Diversity

Undergraduate students of color: 33 percent
International students: 7 percent
Graduate students of color: 14 percent
International graduate students: 27 percent

Undergraduate and Graduate Arts and Sciences

The Arts and Sciences consist of more than 40 academic departments and programs; top majors among 2009 graduates were economics, government, biology, English, history, psychological and brain sciences, and engineering sciences. The Arts and Sciences has 379 tenured and tenure-track faculty members and is among the leaders in percentage of tenured women in the Ivy League. The first Dartmouth Ph.D. was awarded in classics in 1885, and the first modern doctoral programs began in the 1960s. More than 600 students are enrolled in 19 graduate programs in the Arts and Sciences.

Alumni

Fifty-six thousand alumni of the undergraduate college, around the world, make up the bulk of Dartmouth's nearly 71,000 alumni, including the graduate and professional programs. The undergraduate alumni annual fund giving rate in 2009 was 46 percent, with 99.9% of the Class of 2010 donating to the Senior Class Gift.

Student Life

At Dartmouth, what students learn outside the classroom is often as meaningful as what they learn inside. Where students live, where they eat, what organizations they join, what activities they participate in, what sports they play, even where they hang out with other students determine the overall quality of their Dartmouth experience. From residence halls to sports fields, Dartmouth has as many social spaces and programs as it does academic ones.

Clubs & Organizations

With more than 300 organizations and clubs to get involved in, Dartmouth students have the opportunity to create social programs for other students, run a radio station, assist a community-service organization, or work on a student publication, among many other options. The graduate schools have organizations specific to their students, and their students and community members often participate in or mentor other campus organizations.

Study Abroad Information

Dartmouth College offers a variety of opportunities for students to study off-campus and earn credit toward their degree. The four main categories of opportunities for off-campus study are Dartmouth Language Study Abroad (LSA and LSA+); Dartmouth Foreign Study Programs (FSP); Dartmouth Exchange Programs; and Transfer Credit from another four-year, degree-granting, academic institution unaffiliated with Dartmouth College.

Off-campus programs are considered an important extension of the regular Dartmouth curriculum, offering students opportunities to study other cultures and disciplines in depth as well as to gain new perspectives on our own society. All programs are included in the cost of tuition and count towards academic course credit.

Consistently, over 50 percent of Dartmouth students participate in one or more Foreign Study or Language Study Abroad programs before they graduate. Students may choose between about 45 different programs in 20 countries, including Morocco, Scotland, China, Italy, the United Kingdom, and more.

We encourage you to explore our website to learn more about off-campus programs offered by Dartmouth College, to become familiar with program requirements, and if you are currently enrolled as a student at Dartmouth, to apply for programs.

Athletics

Dartmouth offers 34 intercollegiate varsity sports (16 women's, 16 men's, two coed); two dozen intramural sports; and over a dozen club sports. Three-quarters of Dartmouth undergraduates participate in some form of athletics.

Faculty Info

Whether in the classroom, in the lab, on the edge of the ocean or in the studio, Dartmouth faculty are searching for answers, a passionate quest for knowledge and the perpetual exchange of information that takes place at Dartmouth. For Dartmouth's faculty, the process of research and teaching is seamless. Together with their talented undergraduate and graduate students, they are totally engaged in the pursuit of knowledge. Dartmouth has more than 350 tenured and tenure-track faculty members in the undergraduate college, of whom 33 percent are women.

More than 90 percent of the faculty hold doctorate or equivalent terminal degrees and the undergraduate student to faculty ratio is 8:1