Dartmouth at a Glance

Mission: "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."

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.

The Basics

• Founded: 1769
• Type: Four-year private, liberal arts
• Affiliation: Ivy League
• Students: Approximately 4,100 undergraduate, 1,700 graduate
• Divisions: Undergraduate college with more than 40 departments and programs; graduate schools of arts and sciences, medicine, engineering, and business
• Motto: Vox clamantis in deserto ("a voice crying out in the wilderness")
• Color: Dartmouth Green
• Nickname: Big Green
• Academic calendar: Year-round, four-term
  

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Enrollment, Admissions, Financial Aid

Enrollment (Fall 2008)

• Undergraduate: 4,147 (2,089 men, 2,058 women)
• Graduate/professional: 1,701 (988 men, 713 women)
• Total enrollment head count: 5,848

Undergraduate Admissions

For the Class of 2012:

• 16,538 applications
• 1,095 students enrolled
• Admission to the College is need-blind

Tuition and fees, 2009-10

• Undergraduate: tuition $38,445; room and board $11,295; fees $234; total $49,974
• Graduate Arts and Sciences: $38,445
• Dartmouth Medical School: $42,525
• Thayer School of Engineering: $38,445
• Tuck School of Business: $47,835

Financial Aid

• Undergraduate financial aid expenditures, FY 2008: $54,494,740 (scholarships only)
• Average scholarship, Class of 2012: approximately $34,000
• Approximately 50 percent of undergraduates receive scholarships from Dartmouth

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Faculty Head Counts (Fall 2008)

	Tenured/Tenure-track	All*
Arts and Sciences	381	560
Medical School	158	316
Thayer	29	48
Tuck	43	48
TOTAL	611	982
*All includes non-tenure-track

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Research

• Classifed by the Carnegie Foundation as a "research university with very high research activity."
• Sponsored research attracted, FY 2007: $183.3 million.

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President Jim Yong Kim

• Took office July 1, 2009
• Co-founder, Partners In Health
• MacArthur Foundation Fellow
• Member, Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences
• Former director, Department of HIV/AIDS at World Health Organization
• Former chair, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School
• Former chief, Division of Global Health Equity, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston
• Former director, Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights, Harvard School of Public Health

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Diversity

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

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Staff Head Count (Fall 2008)

• 3,078 full time
• 339 part time

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Operating Expenses FY 2008

• $725.9 million

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Undergraduate and Graduate Arts and Sciences

The Arts and Sciences consist of more than 40 academic departments and programs; top majors among 2008 graduates were economics, government, psychological and brain sciences, history, biology, English, and engineering. The Arts and Sciences has 381 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.

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Off-Campus Programs

In 2008, Dartmouth undergraduates had the opportunity to study in 48 off-campus programs in more than 20 countries. Number one in the Ivy League for study abroad, about two-thirds of undergraduates take part in an off-campus program at least once during their Dartmouth career.

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Professional Schools

• Dartmouth Medical School (DMS), is the nation's fourth-oldest medical school. DMS encompasses 16 clinical and basic science departments, and draws on the resources of Dartmouth College and Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center.
• Thayer School of Engineering comprises both the undergraduate Department of Engineering Sciences and a professional school with degrees through the doctorate.
• Tuck School of Business is the first graduate school of management and consistently ranks among the top business schools worldwide. Tuck offers the full-time M.B.A. as well as executive education and a number of non-degree programs.

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History

Dartmouth was founded in 1769 by Rev. Eleazar Wheelock for "the education and instruction of Youth of the Indian Tribes in this Land ... and also of English Youth and any others." The Supreme Court decision in the famous "Dartmouth College Case" of 1819, argued by Daniel Webster (Class of 1801), is considered to be one of the most important and formative documents in United States constitutional history, strengthening the contract clause of the Constitution and thereby paving the way for all American private institutions to conduct their affairs in accordance with their charters and without interference from the state. Dartmouth became coeducational in 1972, and was named by the consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton as one of the world's "most enduring institutions" in 2004.

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Athletics

Dartmouth offers 34 intercollegiate varsity sports (16 women's, 16 men's, two coed); 17 club sports; and 24 intramural sports. Three-quarters of Dartmouth undergraduates participate in some form of athletics..

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Alumni

Fifty-six thousand alumni of the undergraduate college, around the world, make up the bulk of Dartmouth's nearly 70,000 alumni, including the graduate and professional programs. The undergraduate alumni giving rate in 2008 was 53 percent.

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The Campaign for the Dartmouth Experience

To advance leading-edge teaching and scholarship, enhance residential and campus life, and honor its commitment to making education accessible, Dartmouth announced in November 2004 the largest fund-raising effort in its history. With a $1.3 billion goal, the Campaign for the Dartmouth Experience is seeking investment in dozens of initiatives across the institution - for the undergraduate college, its graduate programs in the arts and sciences, and three professional schools of business, engineering, and medicine. Through January 2009, the campaign had raised $1.16 billion toward its goal.

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Endowment

$3 billion (market value, excluding life income and annuity trusts, Dec. 31, 2008.)

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