Dartmouth — All Rankings Are Wrong

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Basic Information

Type Private

Geographical Reach National

Location Hanover, NH

Population 70,000

Website http://www.dartmouth.edu/

Weather

Comfortable Days 105 (50%)

Sunshine Hours 2,520 (36%)

Days Without Precipitation 235 (23%)

Demographics

Total Undergraduates 4,909

Men / Women 51% / 49%

From State 2%

From Region 13%

Athletes 21.7%

Racial/Ethnic

White 44%

International 14%

Asian 13%

Hispanic 10%

Mixed 8%

Black 6%

Native American 1%

Men in the Entering Class

Men

Entering Class by Race & Ethnicity

Native Asian Black Hispanic White International

Share of the full-time first-time degree-seeking cohort. Groups IPEDS reports separately — two or more races, and race unknown — are left out, so the lines don't sum to 100%.

Enrolled Undergraduates by Race & Ethnicity

Native Asian Black Hispanic White International

Share of all full-time degree-seeking undergraduates, not just the entering class. Same excluded groups as above.

IPEDS Admissions (2011–2024), Graduation Rates (2011–2024) and 12-month Enrollment (2020–2025) surveys. Years a college didn't file leave a gap in the line.

Schools & Majors

⇅	Degrees	Male/Female	Intl	Earnings	ROI	Employment
Arts and Sciences	1,110	48% / 52%	14%	$105,940	95	96%
Computer Science	136 +20	67% / 33%	24%	$183,665	100	98%
Data Science	9 +1	44% / 56%	22%	$153,378	100	—
Applied Statistics	30 +7	43% / 57%	17%	$163,841	100	—
Astronomy	4 +1	75% / 25%	50%	$99,320	91	—
Chemistry	10 +6	60% / 40%	10%	$95,363	89	—
Earth Sciences	9 —	44% / 56%	0%	$67,646	46	—
Geosciences	10 —	20% / 80%	10%	$69,012	50	—
Mathematics	41 +9	73% / 27%	34%	$157,341	100	100%
Physical Chemistry	1 —	100% / 0%	0%	$99,903	91	—
Physics and Astronomy	9 +6	67% / 33%	0%	$96,769	89	—
Biology	59 +10	27% / 73%	7%	$71,972	57	96%
Neuroscience	38 +4	37% / 63%	24%	$68,444	48	91%
Quantitative Economics	128 +58	68% / 32%	21%	$145,995	100	95%
African and African American Studies	14 —	21% / 79%	29%	$44,145	3	96%
Ancient Studies/Civilization	— —	—	—	$91,912	86	—
Anthropology	41 +4	22% / 78%	7%	$66,123	41	96%
Asian Societies, Cultures, and Languages	17 —	29% / 71%	12%	$86,892	82	94%
Classical Languages	3 —	67% / 33%	0%	$84,615	79	—
Classical Studies	9 —	22% / 78%	11%	$92,228	86	—
Cognitive Science	28 —	54% / 46%	7%	$88,181	83	—
Comparative Literature	5 +2	40% / 60%	0%	$76,192	66	—
English	33 +10	15% / 85%	3%	$86,304	81	96%
French and Italian	3 —	33% / 67%	33%	$84,288	79	—
Geography and Environmental Studies	74 +8	32% / 68%	9%	$70,068	52	—
German	1 —	0% / 100%	0%	$84,658	79	—
Government	126 +51	59% / 41%	6%	$96,289	89	93%
Hispanic Studies	4 +10	25% / 75%	0%	$77,257	68	—
History	57 +9	63% / 37%	5%	$91,301	86	98%
Interdisciplinary Studies	4 +1	50% / 50%	25%	$100,548	92	—
Italian	— +1	—	—	$84,548	79	—
Jewish Studies	4 +1	75% / 25%	0%	$86,892	82	94%
Latin American and Caribbean Studies	9 +2	33% / 67%	11%	$86,892	82	94%
Linguistics	6 +1	67% / 33%	50%	$83,838	78	—
Native American Studies	6 +2	33% / 67%	0%	$44,145	3	96%
Near and Middle Eastern Studies	8 +1	62% / 38%	12%	$86,892	82	94%
Philosophy	10 +1	50% / 50%	0%	$82,950	77	—
Psychology	56 +6	20% / 80%	14%	$92,721	87	100%
Religion	5 +1	60% / 40%	0%	$75,613	65	—
Romance Languages	2 —	0% / 100%	0%	$84,659	79	—
Russian	2 —	100% / 0%	0%	$84,850	80	—
Russian Studies	— —	—	—	$86,892	82	—
Sociology	37 +2	32% / 68%	8%	$70,826	54	100%
Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies	2 +2	50% / 50%	0%	$44,145	3	96%
Art History	11 —	18% / 82%	18%	$63,955	35	95%
Film Studies	20 —	50% / 50%	10%	$59,271	21	—
Music	13 +14	77% / 23%	0%	$52,059	8	—
Studio Art	11 +9	18% / 82%	18%	$63,955	35	95%
Theater	5 —	40% / 60%	0%	$49,079	6	—

⇅	Degrees	Male/Female	Intl	Earnings	ROI	Employment
Thayer School of Engineering	247	59% / 41%	15%	$104,744	94	94%
Biomedical Engineering	16 +1	50% / 50%	19%	$98,592	91	—
Engineering	127 —	63% / 37%	18%	$112,212	97	—
Engineering Physics	4 —	50% / 50%	25%	$142,573	100	—
Engineering Sciences	100 +5	56% / 44%	10%	$94,731	88	94%

Financial

Tuition & Fees $71,588

ROI Percentile 94th

Retention & Graduation

Full-Time Retention 98%

4-Year Graduation Rate 75%

6-Year Graduation Rate 96%

Transfer-Out Rate 0%

Six-Year Graduation Rate

Graduated

Students finishing within 150% of normal time. Each year labels the cohort that entered six years earlier — 2024 tracks the class that started in 2018.

Six-Year Graduation Rate by Gender

Men Women

IPEDS reports the cohort as men and women only.

Six-Year Graduation Rate by Race & Ethnicity

Native Asian Black Hispanic White International

Each group's completers over its own share of the entering cohort. Groups making up less than 2% of everyone this college graduated over the period are left off — their rates swing on a handful of students and read as noise.

IPEDS Graduation Rates survey, 2011–2024. Years a college didn't file leave a gap in the line.

Earnings by Major Category

Each major category's degree-weighted estimated median 5-year earnings at this college, expressed as a z-score against the national degree-weighted distribution for that category. 0 is the national average. The shaded band between +1.28 and −1.28 marks the central 80% of the national distribution (10th–90th percentile).

Academics

⇅	%	Degrees	Male/Female	Intl	Earnings	ROI	Employment
Humanities & Social Sciences	41.7%	566	41% / 59%	9%	$83,390	78	96%
Engineering	18.2%	247	59% / 41%	15%	$104,744	94	94%
Computer Science	10.7%	145	66% / 34%	24%	$181,785	100	98%
Business & Economics	9.4%	128	68% / 32%	21%	$145,995	100	95%
Physical Sciences & Math	8.4%	114	57% / 43%	20%	$131,464	99	100%
Life & Natural Sciences	7.1%	97	31% / 69%	13%	$70,590	54	94%
Arts	4.4%	60	43% / 57%	10%	$58,577	19	95%

Research R1

⇅	Research $	Rank	Federal	Industry $	PhDs	Rank	PhD students	Postdocs
Health Sciences	$105M	#60	54%	$7.4M	—	—	11	8
Life & Natural Sciences	$92.0M	#61	63%	$0	49	#54	357	64
Humanities & Social Sciences	$64.4M	#26	18%	$0.0M	—	—	—	39
Engineering	$50.6M	#99	69%	$0.8M	19	#133	173	35
Physical Sciences & Math	$47.4M	#69	37%	$0.4M	20	#124	145	41
Business & Economics	$23.2M	#21	1%	$0.2M	—	—	—	3
Computer Science	$19.9M	#54	25%	$0.1M	16	#63	64	8
Agriculture & Food Science	$1.4M	#141	50%	$0.0M	—	—	—	4
Education	$0.1M	#369	0%	$0	—	—	—	—
Total	$404M	#76	46%	$8.9M	104	#170	750	202

Expenditure and funding source: NSF HERD, FY2024. Degrees: IPEDS completions, 2023–24. Students and postdocs: NSF Survey of Graduate Students and Postdoctorates, fall 2024, which covers science, engineering and selected health fields only. An em dash means the source does not report the figure, which is not the same as zero.

Admissions

Uses Common App Yes

Acceptance Rate 6%

Yield (Unbound) 47%

Early Decision 1 Nov 1

Regular Decision Jan 1

Acceptance Rates

	In-State	Out-of-State	International
Regular Decision	4%	4%	3%
Early Decision	22%	24%	15%

Acceptance & Yield

Acceptance Yield

Applicants, Admitted & Enrolled

Applicants Admitted Enrolled

IPEDS Admissions survey, 2011–2024. Years a college didn't file leave a gap in the line.

Standardized Tests

Test Policy required

Submitted Test Scores 100%

SAT Range 1440 – 1550

SAT Math Range 720 – 790

SAT RW Range 720 – 770

SAT Composite

25th 75th

SAT Math

25th 75th

SAT Reading & Writing

25th 75th

Submitting a Test Score

Submitted

IPEDS Admissions survey, 2011–2024. Years a college didn't file leave a gap in the line. Test-score submission adds SAT and ACT submitters, capped at 100% — a student can send both.