Hanover, NH 03755

Founded in 1769 and a member of the Ivy League, Dartmouth College is a private, four-year liberal arts institution. This Hanover, New Hampshire, school includes an undergraduate arts and sciences program and four graduate schools: Arts and Sciences Graduate Programs, Dartmouth Medical School, Thayer School of engineering, and Tuck School of business.

Dartmouth College is a superb undergraduate residential college -- small enough to ensure the intimacy of a classic liberal arts college -- with the intellectual character and curricular breadth of a larger research university.

The quality of the undergraduate experience is marked by close student-faculty interaction, opportunities for independent research, a broad range of off-campus programs, and a diverse student body.

Quick Facts:

Enrollment at Dartmouth is more than 4,000 undergraduates in the liberal arts, and more than 1,500 graduate students.

Dartmouth students come from all 50 states and more than 50 foreign countries.

Dartmouth Medical School, founded in 1797, is the nation's fourth oldest medical school.

The Thayer School of Engineering, founded in 1867, was the nation's first Professional School of engineering.

The world's first graduate school of management - the Tuck School of business - was established at Dartmouth in 1900.

Dartmouth undergraduates have the opportunity to study in 42 off-campus programs in 22 countries.

Three-quarters of Dartmouth undergraduates participate in some form of athletics for Big Green, which currently include men's, women's, and co-ed intercollegiate varsity sports, club sports, and intramural sports.

More than half of Dartmouth's undergraduate students receive financial aid.

Dartmouth's motto: Vox clamantis in deserto translates to "a voice crying out in the wilderness."

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