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Dartmouth College
Dartmouth College, located in Hanover, New Hampshire and founded in 1769,
is the nation's ninth oldest college and a member of the Ivy League. It
is a private, coeducational institution offering liberal arts undergraduate
education and graduate education in the arts and sciences, medicine, business
administration and engineering.
Dartmouth is renowned for its dedication to providing undergraduate,
graduate and professional education of the highest quality, and for fostering
a love of learning and discovery in every member of its community.
- Approximately 5,500 students attend Dartmouth, including 4,300 undergraduates
and 1,200 graduate students.
- Students come to Dartmouth from all 50 states and around the world.
- Dartmouth admits students without regard to need, commits to fund
the full education of all admitted students with demonstrated financial
need and has recently greatly enhanced its financial aid program. For
the academic year 2000-2001, Dartmouth anticipates awarding nearly $30
million in undergraduate scholarship aid.
- Dartmouth is renowned for the quality of its teaching. Undergraduates
and graduate students alike enjoy small classes, close access to faculty
members, and superlative facilities on a campus known for the beauty
of its architecture and of the surrounding environment.
- Dartmouth ranks 2nd in the nation in the percentage of
undergraduates pursuing study abroad programs.
- Since 1991, every undergraduate has owned a personal computer. Dormitory
rooms, classrooms and administrative buildings are all wired to an expensive
campus network of more than 12,000 personal computers and workstations.
Dartmouth's 13th President, the late John Chimney, authored
the BASIC computer language with his colleague, Thomas Kurt.
- The 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 engineering school.
- The Amos Tuck School of Business Administration, founded in 1900,
was the first graduate school of business administration in the world,
and is currently celebrating its centennial year.
- Dartmouth offers graduate degrees in some 16 fields, including biochemistry,
biological sciences, computer science, mathematics, astronomy, physics
and chemistry.
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