Dartmouth Trustees set tuition increase at 3.5 percent for 2001-2002

Posted 02/13/01

For the third year in a row, the Dartmouth Board of Trustees, at their winter meeting Feb. 9-10 in Hanover, kept the rate of tuition increase for the next academic year at 3.5 percent, continuing to hold the increment at a percentage that is the lowest since 1966.

Next year's tuition for Dartmouth undergraduate students as well as that for graduate students in the arts and sciences and in engineering will be $26,400. Combined tuition, room and board charges for undergraduates will be $34,458, an increase of 3.8 percent overall.

Tuition for Dartmouth's Medical School will be $28,680, a 5.1 percent increase; for Dartmouth's Tuck School of Business Administration, $30,250, a 5.3 percent increase. Tuition for Dartmouth's Thayer School of Engineering is the same as that for arts and sciences.

Dartmouth has managed to keep the rate of tuition increase down over the past three years despite constant increases in student financial aid levels to support the College's need-blind admissions policy, soaring energy costs, the need to maintain competitive compensation packages for faculty and staff and other financial demands.

"The measures we have taken over a period of years to hold down our rate of cost increase demonstrate Dartmouth's continuing commitment to attract the most talented and diverse student body possible," said President James Wright. "Dartmouth not only provides an education regarded as among the very best, but, as a result of our financial aid commitment, also ensures that a Dartmouth education remains within financial reach for those admitted, regardless of income."