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Dartmouth College Overview

Dartmouth College is a private not-for-profit institution located in Hanover, New Hampshire. The charming, small-town atmosphere of Hanover draws many to the area.

What Is Dartmouth College Known For?

1,470 Undergraduate Awards
$54,689 Avg Cost After Aid
6% Acceptance Rate
  • Students at Dartmouth may have an easier time interacting with their teachers since the student to faculty ratio at the school is 7 to 1.
  • The doctor's degree is the highest award offered at Dartmouth.
  • In a recent academic period81% of the faculty were full-time.
  • Students who graduate from Dartmouth with a bachelor's degree make about $97,434 a year. That's 139% more than those who graduate from other schools.
  • It takes the average Dartmouth student 4.1 years to graduate. This is pretty good when compared to the national rate of 4.4 years.

Where Is Dartmouth College?

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Contact details for Dartmouth are given below.

Contact Details
Address: 207 Parkhurst Hall, Hanover, NH 03755-3529
Phone: 603-646-1110
Website: www.dartmouth.edu

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How Do I Get Into Dartmouth?

You can apply to Dartmouth online at: admissions.dartmouth.edu/apply/apply-dartmouth

Admission Requirements for Dartmouth

Submission Required?
High School GPA 1
High School Rank 5
High School Transcript 1
College Prep Program 1
Recommendations 1
SAT or ACT Scores 5
TOEFL 1

How Hard Is It To Get Into Dartmouth?

6% Acceptance Rate
50% Of Accepted Are Women
42% Submit SAT Scores
If you plan to apply to Dartmouth, make sure you don't wait until the last minute to fill out your application. The school is one of the most selective in the United States and has a low acceptance rate of 6%. If you are admitted, that's something to brag about!

Approximately 50% of accepted students are men and 50% are women. The acceptance rate for men is 7%, and the acceptance rate for women is 6%.

Average Test Scores

About 42% of students accepted to Dartmouth submitted their SAT scores. When looking at the 25th through the 75th percentile, SAT Evidence-Based Reading and Writing scores ranged between 740 and 780. Math scores were between 760 and 800.

SAT Reading and Writing Scores for Dartmouth College  ( 740 to 780 )
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800

SAT Math Scores for Dartmouth College  ( 760 to 800 )
200
800
Dartmouth received ACT scores from 24% of accepted students. When looking at the 25th through the 75th percentile, ACT English scores ranged between 35 and 36. Math scores were between 32 and 0. Composite scores were between 33 and 35.

ACT English Scores for Dartmouth College  ( 35 to 36 )
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36
ACT Composite Scores for Dartmouth College  ( 33 to 35 )
1
36

Can I Afford Dartmouth College?

$54,689 Net Price
43% Take Out Loans
The overall average net price of Dartmouth is $54,689. The affordability of the school largely depends on your financial need since net price varies by income group.

The net price is calculated by adding tuition, room, board and other costs and subtracting financial aid.

Student Loan Debt

Almost 66% of college students who graduated with the class of 2018 took out student loans, but that percentage varies from school to school. At Dartmouth, approximately 43% of students took out student loans averaging $6,404 a year. That adds up to $25,616 over four years for those students.

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Dartmouth College Undergraduate Student Diversity

4,169 Full-Time Undergraduates
49% Women
39% Racial-Ethnic Minorities*
There are 4,170 undergraduate students at Dartmouth, with 4,169 being full-time and 1 being part-time.

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There are also 2,122 graduate students at the school.

Gender Diversity

Of the 4,169 full-time undergraduates at Dartmouth, 51% are male and 49% are female.

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Racial-Ethnic Diversity

The racial-ethnic breakdown of Dartmouth College students is as follows.

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Race/Ethnicity Number of Grads
Asian 632
Black or African American 245
Hispanic or Latino 431
White 2,036
International Students 448
Other Races/Ethnicities 377

Geographic Diversity

New Hampshire students aren't the only ones who study at Dartmouth College. At this time, all 50 states are represented by the student population at the school.

At this time, 50 states are represented by the student population at the school.

Over 112 countries are represented at Dartmouth. The most popular countries sending students to the school are China, India, and Canada.

Dartmouth College Undergraduate Concentrations

The table below shows the number of awards for each concentration.

Major Bachelor’s Master’s Doctor’s TOTAL
Economics 196 0 0 196
Political Science & Government 182 0 0 182
Computer Science 136 19 2 157
General Engineering 0 155 0 155
Business Administration & Management 0 150 0 150
Management Sciences & Quantitative Methods 0 148 0 148
Engineering Science 79 4 21 104
General Biology 86 0 4 90
Public Health 0 86 2 88
Mathematics 64 10 7 81
Geography and Environmental Studies 78 0 0 78
Medicine 0 0 74 74
Neurobiology & Neurosciences 40 4 9 53
Applied Statistics 53 0 0 53
Child Development & Psychology 51 0 0 51
Health & Medical Administrative Services 0 46 0 46
Biological & Physical Science 0 38 8 46
General English Literature 43 0 0 43
History 41 0 0 41
Area Studies 39 0 0 39
Sociology 39 0 0 39
Philosophy 34 0 0 34
Cognitive Science 33 0 0 33
Anthropology 33 0 0 33
Fine & Studio Arts 32 0 0 32
Linguistics & Comparative Literature 22 8 0 30
Physics 20 1 9 30
Ethnic Studies 29 0 0 29
Geological & Earth Sciences 23 5 1 29
Chemistry 11 2 9 22
Liberal Arts General Studies 0 20 0 20
Romance Languages 16 0 0 16
Music 12 3 0 15
Film, Video & Photographic Arts 14 0 0 14
Classical & Ancient Studies 12 0 0 12
Religious Studies 10 0 0 10
Biomedical Engineering 9 0 0 9
Biochemistry, Biophysics & Molecular Biology 0 0 8 8
Microbiological Sciences & Immunology 0 0 8 8
Classical Languages & Literature 8 0 0 8
Data Science 8 0 0 8
Ecology, Evolution & Systematics Biology 0 1 5 6
Genetics 0 0 5 5
Other Health Professions 0 4 1 5
Drama & Theater Arts 5 0 0 5
Astronomy & Astrophysics 4 0 0 4
Engineering Physics 2 0 0 2
Germanic Languages 2 0 0 2
Slavic, Baltic & Albanian Languages 2 0 0 2
Other Multi/Interdisciplinary Studies 2 0 0 2
Physiology & Pathology Sciences 0 0 1 1
Cell Biology & Anatomical Sciences 0 0 0 0
Pharmacology & Toxicology 0 0 0 0
Engineering-Related Fields 0 0 0 0
Writing Studies 0 0 0 0
East Asian Languages 0 0 0 0
Foreign Language, Literature & Linguistics (Other) 0 0 0 0
Middle Eastern Semitic Languages 0 0 0 0
Statistics 0 0 0 0
Natural Resources Conservation 0 0 0 0
General Psychology 0 0 0 0
Geography & Cartography 0 0 0 0
TOTAL 1,470 704 174 2,348

References

*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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