Dartmouth's graduate programs are small and selective and are designed to provide more flexibility than the professional Ph.D. program usually allows. Breadth within the discipline, significant teaching experience, and a broadly conceived research-thesis project are the basic elements in each of the programs. Research achievement is naturally the most fundamental aspect of the Ph.D. program, and the limited enrollment in each program ensures the student a close apprentice/colleague relationship with his or her research supervisor. Most students are expected to teach during part of their graduate career, and considerable emphasis is placed on carefully supervised teaching experience of increasing responsibility.
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Dartmouth College is located in Hanover, New Hampshire, a town of about 6,000 on the border of New Hampshire and Vermont. Hanover is less than 3 hours' driving distance from Boston and Albany and about 4 hours from Montreal. The Hanover area provides excellent opportunities for hiking, canoeing, climbing, and skiing and is near many of the northern New England lake and skiing resorts.
Dartmouth is coeducational. The undergraduate student body numbers approximately 4,000. The graduate and professional school enrollment is about 1,375; approximately 500 of these students are enrolled in the graduate programs of arts and sciences.
The Hopkins Center for the Performing Arts serves as the cultural focus of the College. The center sponsors an active film society, two full concert series, and a very active drama program. In addition, all students and faculty have access to workshops for sculpture, painting, and various craft forms, as well as to membership in various choral and instrumental music groups. Dartmouth also makes available to its graduate students the extensive facilities of the Dartmouth Outing Club and the Dartmouth College Athletic Council.
