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Dartmouth College

Basic Information

Type Private
Location Hanover, NH
Population 70,000
Map of the United States

Demographics

Total Undergraduates 4,367
Men / Women 52% / 48%
White 47%
International 15%
Asian 12%
Hispanic 9%
Black 5%
Mixed 4%
Native American 1%

Academics

Undergraduate Degrees
Humanities & Social Sciences 41%
Engineering, Computing & Math 33%
Business & Economics 13%
Life & Natural Sciences 9%
Arts 4%

Financial

Tuition & Fees $69,207
Est. Cost of Attendance $87,793
10-Year ROI $295,000
ROI Percentile 97th

Retention & Graduation

Full-Time Retention 98%
4-Year Graduation Rate 75%
6-Year Graduation Rate 96%
Transfer-Out Rate 0%

Weather

Comfortable Days 105 (50th pctl)
Sunshine Hours 2,520 (36th pctl)
Days Without Precipitation 235 (23th pctl)
Muggyness Nice

Admissions

Acceptance Rate 5%
Yield (Unbound) 52%
Early Decision Nov 1
Regular Decision Jan 1

Research

Research Level R1
Expenditure
Humanities & Social Sciences $42M #37
Life & Natural Sciences $235M #77
Engineering, Computing & Math $81M #80
Graduate Degrees
Engineering, Computing & Math 44 #108
Life & Natural Sciences 142 #177
Humanities & Social Sciences 9 #502

Honors College

Standardized Tests

Test Scores

Test Policy test_required
Submitted Test Scores 73%
SAT Range 1,500 – 1,570
ACT Range 33 – 35

Schools & Majors

Trends Degrees Male/Female Intl 5yr Earn
Arts and Sciences 1,043 52% / 48% 10% $120,391
Applied Statistics 29 +15 72% / 28% 10%
Astronomy 3 0% / 100% 67%
Computer Science 103 +40 75% / 25% 12% $183,665
Data Science 17 65% / 35% 24%
Mathematics 44 +7 75% / 25% 23%
Physical Chemistry 1 0% / 100% 0%
Physics and Astronomy 8 +3 50% / 50% 12%
Biology 41 +19 51% / 49% 7% $71,972
Chemistry 15 +1 33% / 67% 7%
Earth Sciences 14 64% / 36% 7%
Geosciences 11 27% / 73% 0%
Neuroscience 29 +4 24% / 76% 0% $68,444
Quantitative Economics 163 +33 63% / 37% 15% $145,995
African and African American Studies 8 +3 62% / 38% 0%
Ancient Studies/Civilization
Anthropology 30 +4 30% / 70% 0%
Asian Societies, Cultures, and Languages 11 +1 45% / 55% 27% $86,892
Classical Languages 5 80% / 20% 60%
Classical Studies 4 +1 50% / 50% 25%
Cognitive Science 14 +2 29% / 71% 7%
Comparative Literature 4 75% / 25% 25%
English 29 +13 21% / 79% 3% $86,304
French and Italian 6 17% / 83% 17%
Geography and Environmental Studies 63 +15 35% / 65% 11%
German 2 50% / 50% 0%
Government 122 +27 61% / 39% 7% $96,289
Hispanic Studies 10 +3 30% / 70% 0%
History 32 +16 59% / 41% 9% $91,301
Interdisciplinary Studies 4 50% / 50% 50%
Italian 3 67% / 33% 0%
Jewish Studies 5 +1 60% / 40% 0% $86,892
Latin American and Caribbean Studies 4 50% / 50% 0% $86,892
Linguistics 12 +1 25% / 75% 0%
Native American Studies 8 +1 25% / 75% 0%
Near and Middle Eastern Studies 1 +2 0% / 100% 0% $86,892
Philosophy 23 +1 70% / 30% 9%
Psychology 60 18% / 82% 8%
Religion 5 +1 60% / 40% 0%
Romance Languages 4 50% / 50% 0%
Russian 3 33% / 67% 0%
Russian Studies
Sociology 33 +1 48% / 52% 0% $70,826
Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies 9 +4 33% / 67% 0%
Art History 6 33% / 67% 0%
Film Studies 19 +6 42% / 58% 0%
Music 15 +4 47% / 53% 7%
Studio Art 7 +8 71% / 29% 0%
Theater 4 +4 25% / 75% 0%
Trends Degrees Male/Female Intl 5yr Earn
Thayer School of Engineering 214 51% / 49% 8% $94,731
Biomedical Engineering 14 +1 50% / 50% 0%
Engineering 101 48% / 52% 9%
Engineering Physics 1 0% / 100% 0%
Engineering Sciences 98 +3 56% / 44% 9% $94,731

Rankings

Academics

Future Patagonia Vest Owners Top Investment Banking Feeders
Goldman, JP, or Bust
Future Ambulance Chasers Top Law School Feeders
Future SCOTUS Clerks
Can't Hide Behind Your GPA SAT-required, Highest Medians
Above Average in High School is Not Enough
Syllabus Week Lasts All Semester Grade Hyperinflation
Generous Graders

College Costs

Bring Me Your Tired, Your Poor Need-Blind for Internationals
Come, Baby, Come
We Marked It Up Just to Put It on Sale Highest List Price
Premium Price Tag

Fun and Games

Ski Bums and Surf Bros Top Recreation
Ski

Prestige

Grandma Eyebrow Raisers Easy Brags for the Prestigious-Conscious
Ivies, But

Someone Like Me

I Have Practice at 5 AM Most Athletes
Conference Champions
Richy Rich Wealthiest Students
Comfortable in First Class

Engineering, Computing & Math

No, I Can't Fix Your Printer Computer Science
Wait, We Have a CS Major?
The "I Understand Interstellar" Elite Physics & Astronomy
String Theorists
No Words Allowed Pure Mathematics
Sigma Grindset
I Have Always Loved Legos General Engineering
I Build Robots While Reading Plato, Kneel Before My Megamind

Life & Natural Sciences

Pre-Med Reject Waiting Room Biology
Mitosis Mode
Breaking Bad Chemistry
Pre-Med Darwinian Thunderdome
Doomsday Prepping with Data Environmental Science
Field Station

Business & Economics

PowerPoint Presentation Power Rankings Business Administration
We Don't Actually Offer Undergrad Business
Pivot Tables & Missing Pallets Business Analytics
Supply Chain Bottlenecks
It's Basic Supply and Demand, Bro Economics
I Actually Wanted to do Finance
Wolf of Wall Street Prep Finance
Wait, I Majored in Econ?
Tik-Tok Generation Marketing
Getting There

Humanities & Social Sciences

Much Ado About Nothing English, Literature & Writing
Well-Versed
Mappy Few, the Cartography Crew Geography & Cartography
Plot Twisters
Model UN Generation Government & Politics
Campaign Trail
Hindsight is 20/20 (And So is My Salary) History & Archaeology
The Time Travelers
I'll Figure Out the Career Later Liberal Arts & Interdisciplinary
Renaissance Wannabes
I Want To Understand Myself Psychology
Maze Runners
Everything is a Construct Sociology & Anthropology
The Collective