University ranking
University ranking
artDmouth was ranked 12th among undergraduate programs at national universities by U.S. News & World Report in its 2016 rankings. Dartmouth's strength in undergraduate education is highlighted by U.S. News when in 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, and 2013 it ranked Dartmouth first in undergraduate teaching at national universities. It was ranked 2nd in this area in the 2016 rankings.The institution also ranked 8th in High School Counselor Rankings in 2016.The college ranks 7th in The Wall Street Journal's ranking of top feeder schools.
In Forbes' alternative rankings of colleges, the ranking considers Dartmouth a liberal arts college, for which it ranks 8th, and 18th overall in its combined liberal arts college and national universities ranking. It ranks #2 in grateful graduates and received a financial aid grade
The 2006 Carnegie Foundation classification listed Dartmouth as the only "majority-undergraduate", "arts-and-sciences focus[ed]", "research university" in the country that also had "some graduate coexistence" and "very high research activity."Internationally, Dartmouth College was ranked 113th in the world in the 2012 QS World University Rankings.
For its graduate programs, U.S. News ranks Dartmouth's MBA program 9th overall and 6th for management. Among its other highly ranked graduate offerings, the school is ranked 40th in computer science, 29th in medicine for primary care, and 37th in medicine for research. Its global ranking places is at 242nd.
Fall admission statistics
2016[64] 2015[65] 2014[66] 2013[67] 2012[68]Applicants 20,675 20,504 19,296 22,428 23,110Admits 2,176 2,120 2,220 2,337 2,260Admit rate 10.5% 10.3% 11.5% 10.4% 9.8%Enrolled N/A 1,116 1,152 1,117 1,098SAT range 2000-2340 2000-2340 2050-2340 2040-2340 2030-2350SAT mean 2219 2216 2219 2219 2200ACT range 30-34 30-34 30-34 30-34 30-34ACT mean 32.8 32.8 32.6 32.5 32.5
Undergraduate admission to Dartmouth College is characterized by the Carnegie Foundation and U.S. News & World Report as "most selective".[69] In the 2015-2016 cycle, 20,675 applied and 2,176 were accepted for a 10.5% admissions rate. Of those who reported class rank, 37.1% were valedictorians, with 94.6% ranking in the top decile of their class. More than 51% identified as being students of color, 14.7% are among the first generation in their families to matriculate to college, 8.2% are international students, and 8.1% are legacies.
Dartmouth meets 100% of students' demonstrated financial need in order to attend the College, and currently admits all students, with the exception of internationals, on a need-blind basis.
Student life
Student life In 2006, The Princeton Review ranked Dartmouth third in its "Quality of Life" category, and sixth for having the "Happiest Students." Athletics and participation in the Greek system are the most popular campus activities. In all, Dartmouth offers more than 350 organizations, teams, and sports. The school is also home to a variety of longstanding traditions and celebrations and has a loyal alumni network; Dartmouth ranked #2 in "The Princeton Review" in 2006 for Best Alumni Network. Robinson Hall houses many of the College's student-run organizations, including the Dartmouth Outing Club. The building is a designated stop along the Appalachian Trail.Dartmouth's more than 200 student organizations and clubs cover a wide range of interests. In 2007, the college hosted eight academic groups, 17 cultural groups, two honor societies, 30 "issue-oriented" groups, 25 performing groups, 12 pre-professional groups, 20 publications, and 11 recreational groups. Notable student groups include the nation's largest and oldest collegiate outdoors club, the Dartmouth Outing Club,which includes the nationally recognized[136] Big Green Bus; the campus's oldest a cappella group, The Dartmouth Aires; the controversial conservative newspaper. The Dartmouth Review and The Dartmouth, arguably the nation's oldest university newspaper The Dartmouth describes itself as "America's Oldest College Newspaper, Founded 1799.Partially because of Dartmouth's rural, isolated location, the Greek system dating from the 1840s is one of the most popular social outlets for students. Dartmouth is home to 32 recognized Greek houses: 17 fraternities, 12 sororities, and three coeducational organizations. In 2007, roughly 70% of eligible students belonged to a Greek organization; since 1987, students have not been permitted to join Greek organizations until their sophomore year. Dartmouth College was among the first institutions of higher education to desegregate fraternity houses in the 1950s, and was involved in the movement to create coeducational Greek houses in the 1970s.In the early first decade of the 21st century, campus-wide debate focused on a Board of Trustees recommendation that Greek organizations become "substantially coeducational" this attempt to change the Greek system eventually failed. The fraternities have an extensive history of hazing and alcohol abuse, leading to police raids and accusations of sexual harassment.Dartmouth also has a number of secret societies, which are student- and alumni-led organizations often focused on preserving the history of the college and initiating service projects. Most prominent among them is the Sphinx society, housed in a prominent Egyptian tomb-like building near the center of campus. The Sphinx has been the subject of numerous rumors as to its facilities, practices, and membership.The college has an additional classification of social/residential organizations known as undergraduate societies.149A Dartmouth varsity hockey game against Princeton at Thompson AreApproximately 20% of students participate in a varsity sport, and nearly 80% participate in some form of club, varsity, intramural, or other athletics. In 2007, Dartmouth College fielded 34 intercollegiate varsity teams: 16 for men, 16 for women, and coeducational sailing and equestrian programs. Dartmouth's athletic teams compete in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I eight-memberIvy League conference; some teams also participate in the Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC).As is mandatory for the members of the Ivy League, Dartmouth College does not offer athletic scholarships. In addition to the traditional American team sports (football, basketball, baseball, and ice hockey), Dartmouth competes at the varsity level in many other sports including track and field, softball, squash, sailing, tennis, rowing, soccer, skiing, and lacrosse.The college also offers 26 club and intramural sports such as fencing, rugby, water polo, figure skating, boxing, volleyball, ultimate frisbee, and cricket, leading to a 75% participation rate in athletics among the undergraduate student body. The Dartmouth Fencing Team, despite being entirely self-coached, won the USACFC club national championship in 2014. The Dartmouth Men's Rugby Team, founded in 1951, has been ranked among the best collegiate teams in that sport, winning for example the Ivy Rugby Conference every year between 2008 and 2015.The figure skating team won the national championship five straight times from 2004 through 2008. In addition to the academic requirements for graduation, Dartmouth requires every undergraduate to complete a 50-yard (46 m) swim and three terms of physical education.It is often pointed out that the charter of Dartmouth College, granted to Eleazar Wheelock in 1769, proclaims that the institution was created "for the education and instruction of Youth of the Indian Tribes in this Land in reading, writing and all parts of Learning... as well as in all liberal Arts and Sciences; and also of English Youth and any others.However, Wheelock primarily intended the college to educate White youth, and the few Native students that attended Dartmouth experienced much difficulty in an institution ostensibly dedicated to their education. The funds for the Charity School for Native Americans that preceded Dartmouth College were raised primarily by the efforts of a Native American named Samson Occom, and at least some of those funds were used to help found the college.The college graduated only 19 Native Americans during its first two hundred years. In 1970, the college established Native American academic and social programs as part of a "new dedication to increasing Native American enrollment. Since then, Dartmouth has graduated over 1,000 Native American students from over 200 different tribes, more than the other seven Ivy League universities combined.
Athletic facilitie
Athletic facilities
Dartmouth's original sports field was the Green, where students played cricket and old division football during the 19th century.Today, two of Dartmouth's athletic facilities are located in the southeast corner of campus. The center of athletic life is the Alumni Gymnasium, which includes the Karl Michael Competition Pool and the Spaulding Pool, a state of the art fitness center, a weight room, and a 1/13th-mile (123 m) indoor track.Attached to Alumni Gymnasium is the Berry Sports Center, which contains basketball and volleyball courts (Leede Arena), as well as the Kresge Fitness Center.Behind the Alumni Gymnasium is Memorial Field, a 15,600-seat stadium overlooking Dartmouth's football field and track.The nearby Thompson Arena, designed by Italian engineer Pier Luigi Nervi and constructed in 1975, houses Dartmouth's ice rink. Also visible from Memorial Field is the 91,800-square-foot (8,530 m2) Nathaniel Leverone Fieldhouse, home to the indoor track. The new softball field, Dartmouth Softball Park, was constructed in 2012, sharing parking facilities with Thompson arena and replacing Sachem Field, located over a mile from campus, as the primary softball facility.
Dartmouth's other athletic facilities in Hanover include the Friends of Dartmouth Rowing Boathouse and the old rowing house storage facility (both located along the Connecticut River), the Hanover Country Club, Dartmouth's oldest remaining athletic facility (established in 1899),[118] and the Corey Ford Rugby Clubhouse. The college also maintains the Dartmouth Skiway, a 100-acre (0.40 km2) skiing facility located over two mountains near the Hanover campus in Lyme Center, New Hampshire,that serves as the winter practice grounds for the Dartmouth ski team, which is a perennial contender for the NCAA Division I championship.
Lord Hall in the Gold Coast Cluster
Beginning in the fall term of 2016, Dartmouth will place all undergraduate students in one of six House communities, similar to residential colleges. Dartmouth previously had nine residential communities located throughout campus, instead of ungrouped dormitories or residential colleges. The dormitories varied in design from modern to traditional Georgian styles, and room arrangements range from singles to quads and apartment suites. Since 2006, the College has guaranteed housing for students during their freshman and sophomore years. More than 3,000 students elect to live in housing provided by College.
Campus meals are served by Dartmouth Dining Services, which operates 11 dining establishments around campus. Four of them are located at the center of campus in the Class of 1953 Commons, formerly Thayer Dining Hall.
The Collis Center is the center of student life and programming, serving as what would be generically termed the "student union" or "campus center." It contains a café, study space, common areas, and a number of administrative departments, including the Academic Skills Centre.Robinson Hall, next door to both Collis and Thayer, contains the offices of a number of student organizations including the Dartmouth Outing Club and The Dartmouth daily newspaper.
Beginning in the fall term 2016, all undergraduate students of Dartmouth will be members of one of the following six House communities, similar to residential colleges:
Allen House
East Wheelock House
North Park House
School House
South House
West House
Living Learning Communities
Academics
Academics
Dartmouth, a liberal arts institution, offers a four-year Bachelor of Arts and ABET-accredited Bachelor of Engineering degree to undergraduate students. The college has 39 academic departments offering 56 major programs, while students are free to design special majors or engage in dual majors. In 2008, the most popular majors were economics, government, history, psychological and brain sciences, English, biology, and engineering sciences. The Government Department, whose prominent professors include Stephen Brooks, Richard Ned Lebow, and William Wohlforth, was ranked the top solely undergraduate political science program in the world by researchers at theLondon School of Economics in 2003. The Economics Department, whose prominent professors include David Blanchflower and Andrew Samwick, also holds the distinction as the top-ranked bachelor's-only economics program in the world.
In order to graduate, a student must complete 35 total courses, eight to ten of which are typically part of a chosen major program. Other requirements for graduation include the completion of ten "distributive requirements" in a variety of academic fields, proficiency in a foreign language, and completion of a writing class and first-year seminar in writing. Many departments offer honors programs requiring students seeking that distinction to engage in "independent, sustained work," culminating in the production of athesis. In addition to the courses offered in Hanover, Dartmouth offers 57 different off-campus programs, including Foreign Study Programs, Language Study Abroad programs, and Exchange Programs.
Through the Graduate Studies program, Dartmouth grants doctorate and master's degrees in 19 Arts & Sciences graduate programs. Although the first graduate degree, a PhD in classics, was awarded in 1885, many of the current PhD programs have only existed since the 1960s. Furthermore, Dartmouth is home to three professional schools: theGeisel School of Medicine (established 1797), Thayer School of Engineering (1867) — which also serves as the undergraduate department of engineering sciences — and Tuck School of Business (1900). With these professional schools and graduate programs, conventional American usage would accord Dartmouth the label of "Dartmouth University";however, because of historical and nostalgic reasons (such as Dartmouth College v. Woodward), the school uses the name "Dartmouth College" to refer to the entire institution.
Dartmouth employs a total of 607 tenured or tenure-track faculty members, including the highest proportion of female tenured professors among the Ivy League universities.Faculty members have been at the forefront of such major academic developments as the Dartmouth Conferences, the Dartmouth Time Sharing System, Dartmouth BASIC, andDartmouth ALGOL 30. In 2005, sponsored project awards to Dartmouth faculty research amounted to $169 million
Dartmouth serves as the host institution of the University Press of New England, a university press founded in 1970 that is supported by a consortium of schools that also includesBrandeis University, the University of New Hampshire, Northeastern University, Tufts University and the University of Vermont.
Further information: List of Dartmouth College faculty
History
History
Dartmouth was established by Eleazar Wheelock, a Congregational pastor from Columbia, Connecticut, who had beforehand tried to build up a school to prepare Native Americans as Christian teachers. Wheelock's apparent motivation for such a foundation came about because of his association with Mohegan Indian Samson Occom. Occom turned into an appointed priest subsequent to examining under Wheelock from 1743 to 1747, and later moved to Long Island to lecture the Montauks.
Wheelock established Moor's Indian Charity School in 1755. The Charity School demonstrated to some degree fruitful, however extra subsidizing was important to proceed with school's operations, and Wheelock looked for the assistance of companions to raise cash. Occom, joined by the Reverend Nathaniel Whitaker, headed out to England in 1766 to raise cash from places of worship. With these assets, they set up a trust to help Wheelock. The leader of the trust was a Methodist named William Legge, second Earl of Dartmouth.
The Charter of Dartmouth College in plain view in Baker Memorial Library. The contract was marked on December 13, 1769, in the interest of King George III of Great Britain.
In spite of the fact that the asset gave Wheelock abundant budgetary backing to the Charity School, Wheelock at first experienced difficulty enrolling Indians to the foundation, principally on the grounds that its area was a long way from tribal domains. In trying to grow the school into a school, Wheelock migrated it to Hanover, in the Province of New Hampshire. The move from Connecticut took after a protracted and infrequently disappointing push to discover assets and secure a sanction. The Royal Governor of New Hampshire, John Wentworth, gave the area whereupon Dartmouth would be fabricated and on December 13, 1769, issued the sanction for the sake of King George III building up the College. That contract made a school "for the training and guideline of Youth of the Indian Tribes in this Land in perusing, composing and all parts of Learning whi
ch might seem vital and practical for enlightening and christianizing Children of Pagans and additionally in every liberal Art and Sciences furthermore of English Youth and any others." The reference to teaching Native American youth was incorporated to associate Dartmouth to the Charity School and empower utilization of the Charity School's unspent trust stores. Named for William Legge, second Earl of Dartmouth—an imperative supporter of Eleazar Wheelock's prior endeavors however who, actually, restricted formation of the College and never gave to it—Dartmouth is the country's ninth most seasoned school and the last foundation of higher learning set up under Colonial rule.[19] The College allowed its first degrees in 1771
Given the restricted achievement of the Charity School, be that as it may, Wheelock proposed his new school as one basically for whites. Occom, baffled with Wheelock's takeoff from the school's unique objective of Indian Christianization, went ahead to shape his own group of New England Indians called Brothertown Indians in New York.
The most punctual known picture of Dartmouth showed up in the February 1793 issue of Massachusetts Magazine. The imprinting may likewise be the main visual verification of cricket being played in the United State
In 1819, Dartmouth College was the subject of the noteworthy Dartmouth College case, which tested New Hampshire's 1816 endeavor to correct the school's illustrious sanction to make the school a state funded college. A foundation called Dartmouth University possessed the school structures and started working in Hanover in 1817, however the school kept showing classes in leased rooms nearby.[12] Daniel Webster, a graduate of the class of 1801, exhibited the College's case to the Supreme Court, which found the revision of Dartmouth's sanction to be an illicit weakness of an agreement by the state and switched New Hampshire's takeover of the school. Webster finished up his talk with the celebrated words: "It is, Sir, as I have said, a little school. But there are the individuals who love it."
In 1866, the New Hampshire College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts was joined in Hanover, regarding Dartmouth College. The organization was formally connected with Dartmouth and was coordinated by Dartmouth's leader. The new school was moved to Durham, New Hampshire, in 1891, and later got to be known as the University of New Hampshire.
Dartmouth developed onto the national scholastic stage at the turn of the twentieth century. Preceding this period, the school had clung to customary strategies for direction and was generally ineffectively funded.[8] Under President William Jewett Tucker (1893–1909), Dartmouth experienced a noteworthy renewal of offices, staff, and the understudy body, taking after extensive blessings, for example, the $10,000 given by Dartmouth former student and law teacher John Ordronaux.20 new structures supplanted old-fashioned structures, while the understudy body and workforce both extended triple. Tucker is frequently credited for having "refounded Dartmouth" and bringing it into national prestige.
Lithograph of the President's House, Thornton Hall, Dartmouth Hall, and Wentworth Hall, around 1834
Presidents Ernest Fox Nichols (1909–16) and Ernest Martin Hopkins (1916–45) proceeded with Tucker's pattern of modernization, further enhancing grounds offices and presenting specific confirmations in the 1920s.[8] John Sloan Dickey, serving as president from 1945 until 1970, emphatically accentuated the human sciences, especially open strategy and universal relations.
Amid World War II, Dartmouth was one of 131 schools and colleges broadly that joined in the V-12 Navy College Training Program which offered understudies a way to a naval force commissio
In 1970, long-term teacher of arithmetic and software engineering John George Kemeny got to be president of Dartmouth.[28] Kemeny directed a few noteworthy changes at the school. Dartmouth, beforehand serving as a men's foundation, started conceding ladies as full-time understudies and college degree hopefuls in 1972 in the midst of much controversy. At about the same time, the school embraced its "Dartmouth Plan" of scholastic booking, allowing the understudy body to increment in size inside the current facilities.[28] In 1988, Dartmouth's place of graduation melody's verses changed from "Men of Dartmouth" to "Dear old Dartmouth".
Amid the 1990s, the school saw a noteworthy scholastic redesign under President James O. Freedman and a disputable (and eventually unsuccessful) 1999 activity to empower the school's single-sex Greek houses to go coed. The main decade of the 21st century saw the initiation of the $1.3 billion Campaign for the Dartmouth Experience, the biggest capital gathering pledges crusade in the school's history, which surpassed $1 billion in 2008. The mid-and late first decade of the 21st century have likewise seen broad grounds development, with the erection of two new lodging edifices, full redesign of two residences, and an imminent feasting corridor, life sciences focus, and visual expressions center. In 2004, Booz Allen Hamilton chose Dartmouth College as a model of institutional perseverance "whose record of continuance has had suggestions and advantages for every single American association, both scholarly and business," refering to Trustees of Dartmouth College v. Woodward and Dartmouth's effective self-rehash in the late nineteenth century.
Dartmouth College
Dartmouth College
Not to be confused with the 19th-century Dartmouth University; University of Massachusetts Dartmouth; or the fictional British university of this name featured in Peep Show.
Dartmouth College
Dartmouth College shield.svg
Latin: Collegium Dartmuthensis
Motto Latin: Vox clamantis in deserto
Motto in English
A voice crying out in the wilderness
Type Private
Established December 13, 1769
Endowment $4.7 billion (2015)
President Philip J. Hanlon
Academic staff
734 (Fall 2015)
Students 6,350 (Fall 2015)
Undergraduates 4,307 (Fall 2015)
Postgraduates 2,043 (Fall 2015)
Location Hanover, New Hampshire, U.S.
43°42′12″N 72°17′18″WCoordinates: 43°42′12″N 72°17′18″W
Campus Rural, Total 31,869 acres (128.97 km2)
Colors Dartmouth green
Athletics NCAA Division I – Ivy League, ECAC Hockey
Nickname Big Green
Mascot Indian (1922-1974),
Keggy the Keg,
Moose (all unofficial)
Affiliations
University of the Arctic Matariki Network of Universities 568 Group NAICU
Website dartmouth.edu
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Dartmouth College (/ˈdɑːrtməθ/ dart-məth) is a private, Ivy League, research university in Hanover, New Hampshire, United States. Incorporated as the "Trustees of Dartmouth College", it is one of the nine Colonial Colleges founded before the American Revolution. Dartmouth College was established in 1769 by Eleazar Wheelock, a Congregational minister. After a long period of financial and political struggles, Dartmouth emerged in the early 20th century from relative obscurity, into national prominence.
With an undergraduate enrollment of 4,307 and a total student enrollment of 6,350 (as of 2016), Dartmouth is the smallest university in the Ivy League.[3] Its undergraduate program is among the most selective in the country. Dartmouth offers a broad range of academic departments, an extensive research enterprise and a number of community outreach and public service programs. A liberal arts institution, the college offers a four-year Bachelor of Arts and ABET-accredited Bachelor of Engineering degree to undergraduate students. Dartmouth has 39 academic departments offering 56 major programs, while students are free to design special majors or engage in dual majors. The college functions on a quarter system, operating year-round on four ten-week academic terms. Dartmouth is also home to three professional schools: the Geisel School of Medicine (established 1797), Thayer School of Engineering (1867) — which also serves as the undergraduate department of engineering sciences — and Tuck School of Business (1900), as well as 19 graduate programs in the arts and sciences. With these professional schools and graduate programs, conventional American usage would accord Dartmouth the label of "Dartmouth University"; however, because of historical and nostalgic reasons (such as Dartmouth College v. Woodward) and to emphasize its lasting commitment to undergraduate education, the school uses the name "Dartmouth College" to refer to the entire institution.
Dartmouth's 269-acre (1.09 km2) campus is in the rural Upper Valley region of New Hampshire. Participation in athletics and Greek culture is strong. Dartmouth's 34 varsity sports teams compete in the Ivy League conference of the NCAA Division I. Students are well known for preserving a variety of enduring campus traditions.
