Editing Dartmouth College (section)

== Academics ==
[[File:Baker Memorial Library, Dartmouth College - DSC09058.JPG|thumb|left|upright|Baker Memorial Library]]

Dartmouth, a [[Liberal arts education|liberal arts]] institution, offers a four-year [[Bachelor of Arts]] and ABET-accredited [[Bachelor of Engineering]] degree to undergraduate students.<ref name="about-dartmouth-facts" /><ref name="About Dartmouth" /> The college has 39 academic departments offering 56 [[Academic major|major programs]], while students are free to design special majors or engage in dual majors.<ref name="Undergraduate Majors" /> For the graduating class of 2017, the most popular majors were economics, government, computer science, engineering sciences, and history.<ref name="classof2017notes">{{cite web|last1=Blumberg|first1=Joseph|title=Commencement Notes for the Dartmouth Class of 2017|url=https://news.dartmouth.edu/news/2017/06/commencement-notes-dartmouth-class-2017|website=Dartmouth News|access-date=December 12, 2017|date=June 9, 2017|archive-date=August 15, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170815130239/http://news.dartmouth.edu/news/2017/06/commencement-notes-dartmouth-class-2017|url-status=live}}</ref> The Economics Department, whose prominent professors include [[David Blanchflower]], [[Andrew Samwick]], and [[Diego Comin]], among others, also holds the distinction as the top-ranked bachelor's-only economics program in the world.<ref name="Rankings of Academic Journals and Institutions in Economics" /> The Government Department similarly includes numerous eminent faculty members, such as [[Stephen Brooks (academic)|Stephen Brooks]] and [[William Wohlforth]], and is among Dartmouth's most popular majors. These two departments are known for enforcing a median grade of B+ in most of their courses in order to curb the burgeoning trend of [[grade inflation]] at American universities.  
[[File:Dartmouth College campus 2007-10-20 09.JPG|thumb|left|upright|A view of East Campus from Baker Tower]]
In order to graduate, a student must complete 35 total courses, eight to ten of which are typically part of a chosen major program.<ref name="requirements" /> 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.<ref name="requirements" /> Many departments offer honors programs requiring students seeking that distinction to engage in "independent, sustained work", culminating in the production of a [[thesis]].<ref name="requirements" /> 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.<ref name="Programs List All" /><ref name="Types of Programs" />

[[File:Dartmouth College campus 2007-06-23 Tuck School of Business.JPG|thumb|right|upright=1.2|[[Tuck School of Business]]]]
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.<ref name="about-dartmouth-facts" /> Furthermore, Dartmouth is 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). With these professional schools and graduate programs, conventional American usage would accord Dartmouth the label of "Dartmouth University";<ref name="about-dartmouth-facts" /> 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.<ref name="history-lesson" />

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,<ref name="about-dartmouth-facts" /> and [[Temiloluwa Prioleau|the first black woman tenure-track faculty member in computer science at an Ivy League university]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Meet Nigerian Temiloluwa O. Prioleau, the first Black woman tenure-track faculty in Computer Science in the Ivy League |url=https://theafricaiknow.org/posts/temi_prioleau.html |website=The Africa I know |access-date=19 May 2022 |archive-date=June 23, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210623091135/https://theafricaiknow.org/posts/temi_prioleau.html |url-status=dead }}</ref>

Dartmouth served as the host member of the [[University Press of New England]], a [[university press]] founded in 1970 that included [[Brandeis University]], [[Tufts University]], the [[University of New Hampshire]], and [[Northeastern University]]. The University Press of New England shut down in 2018.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Hongoltz-Hetling |first=Matt |date=April 19, 2018 |title=Dartmouth's University Press to Close Down; Impact Could Ripple Across the Industry |url=https://www.vnews.com/Dartmouth-to-close-University-Press-of-New-England-16968484 |website=Valley News}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Brandeis Acquires U Press of New England Titles |url=https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2021/01/07/brandeis-acquires-u-press-new-england-titles |access-date=2022-08-02 |website=Inside Higher Ed |language=en}}</ref> With the exception of Dartmouth College Press titles, in 2021, Brandeis become the sole owner of all copyrights and titles of UPNE.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Brandeis University Press to exclusively manage the University Press of New England |url=https://www.brandeis.edu/now/2021/january/bup-upne-catalog.html |access-date=2022-08-02 |website=BrandeisNOW |language=en}}</ref>

=== Research ===
Dartmouth College is a research institution designated by the [[Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education]] as having “very high research activity”.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Dartmouth College |url=https://carnegieclassifications.acenet.edu/institution/dartmouth-college/ |access-date=2025-05-05 |website=Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education® |language=en-US}}</ref> In 2019, Dartmouth College was elected to the [[Association of American Universities]] (AAU), an organization of 69 research universities.<ref>{{Cite web |date=November 6, 2019 |title=Three Leading Research Universities Join the Association of American Universities (AAU) |url=https://www.aau.edu/newsroom/press-releases/three-leading-research-universities-join-association-american-universities |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200429210715/https://www.aau.edu/newsroom/press-releases/three-leading-research-universities-join-association-american-universities |archive-date=April 29, 2020 |access-date=March 5, 2020 |website=www.aau.edu}}</ref>

Faculty members have been at the forefront of such major academic developments as the [[Dartmouth Workshop]], the [[Dartmouth Time-Sharing System]], [[Dartmouth BASIC]], and [[Dartmouth ALGOL 30]]. In 2005, sponsored project awards to Dartmouth faculty research amounted to $169 million.<ref name="Academics & Research" />

In 2025, Dartmouth received approximately $97 million worth of funding from the [[National Institutes of Health]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=2025-03-03 |title='Let's Not Overreact': How One College's Head of Research Is Navigating Uncertainty Under Trump |url=https://www.chronicle.com/article/lets-not-overreact-how-one-colleges-head-of-research-is-navigating-uncertainty-under-trump |access-date=2025-05-05 |website=The Chronicle of Higher Education |language=en}}</ref>

=== Rankings ===
{{Infobox US university ranking
| Forbes = 16
| THE_WSJ = 57
| QS_W = 243
| THES_W = 168 <small>(tie)</small>
| USNWR_NU = 15 <small>(tie)</small>
| USNWR_W = 320 <small>(tie)</small>
| Wamo_NU = 32
| ARWU_W = 301–400
}}

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|+''USNWR'' graduate school rankings<ref name="US News GSR">{{cite web |title=Dartmouth College |url=https://www.usnews.com/best-graduate-schools/dartmouth-college-182670/overall-rankings |website=U.S. News & World Report |access-date=1 April 2021 |archive-date=March 14, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170314183254/https://www.usnews.com/best-graduate-schools/dartmouth-college-182670/overall-rankings |url-status=live}}</ref>
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! scope="row" colspan="2" | Engineering
| 55
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! scope="row" | Primary Care
| 46
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! scope="row" | Research
| 48
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|+''USNWR'' departmental rankings<ref name="US News GSR" />
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! scope="row" | Biological Sciences
| 33
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! scope="row" | Chemistry
| 67
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! scope="row" | Computer Science
| 43
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! scope="row" | Earth Sciences
| 54
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! scope="row" | Mathematics
| 53
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! scope="row" | Physics
| 61
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| 53
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| 41
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Dartmouth was ranked 12th among undergraduate programs at national universities by ''[[U.S. News & World Report]]'' in its 2022 rankings. ''U.S. News'' also ranked the school 3rd best for veterans, tied for 5th best in undergraduate teaching, and 7th for "best value"  national universities.<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/dartmouth-college-2573/overall-rankings |title=Dartmouth College Rankings |magazine=U.S. News & World Report |year=2020 |access-date=September 11, 2019 |archive-date=October 7, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191007065814/https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/dartmouth-college-2573/overall-rankings |url-status=live}}</ref> Dartmouth's undergraduate teaching was previously ranked 1st by ''U.S. News'' for five years in a row (2009–2013).<ref>{{Cite web|title='U.S. News': Dartmouth Again No. 1 for Teaching, Top 10 Overall {{!}} Dartmouth News|url=https://news.dartmouth.edu/news/2013/09/us-news-dartmouth-again-no-1-teaching-top-10-overall|access-date=July 2, 2020|website=news.dartmouth.edu|date=September 10, 2013 |archive-date=July 2, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200702101650/https://news.dartmouth.edu/news/2013/09/us-news-dartmouth-again-no-1-teaching-top-10-overall|url-status=live}}</ref> Dartmouth College is [[Higher education accreditation in the United States|accredited]] by the [[New England Commission of Higher Education]].<ref>{{Citation|title=New Hampshire Institutions – NECHE|publisher=[[New England Commission of Higher Education]]|url=https://www.neche.org/institutions/nh/|access-date=May 26, 2021|archive-date=May 12, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210512163735/https://www.neche.org/institutions/nh/|url-status=live}}</ref>

In ''[[Forbes]]''{{'}} 2019 rankings of 650 universities, liberal arts colleges and service academies, Dartmouth ranked 10th overall and 10th in research universities.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.forbes.com/top-colleges/list/#tab:rank|title=America's Top Colleges 2019|date=August 15, 2019|work=Forbes|access-date=August 26, 2017|archive-date=August 4, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120804145514/http://www.forbes.com/top-colleges/list/#tab:rank|url-status=live}}</ref> In the ''Forbes'' 2018 "grateful graduate" rankings, Dartmouth came in first for the second year in a row.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/sarahhansen/2018/08/21/grateful-grads-2018-200-colleges-with-the-happiest-most-successful-alumni/#7d9ba0141a0a|title=Grateful Grads 2018 – 200 Colleges With The Happiest, Most Successful Alumni|last=Hansen|first=Sarah|date=August 21, 2018|work=Forbes|access-date=September 11, 2019|archive-date=September 28, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190928001751/https://www.forbes.com/sites/sarahhansen/2018/08/21/grateful-grads-2018-200-colleges-with-the-happiest-most-successful-alumni/#7d9ba0141a0a|url-status=live}}</ref>

The 2021'' [[Academic Ranking of World Universities]]'' ranked Dartmouth among the 90–110th best universities in the nation.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.shanghairanking.com/rankings/arwu/2021|title=Academic Ranking of World Universities 2021|website=www.shanghairanking.com|access-date=October 15, 2021|archive-date=November 22, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211122054319/http://www.shanghairanking.com/rankings/arwu/2021|url-status=live}}</ref> However, this specific ranking has drawn criticism from scholars for not adequately adjusting for the size of an institution, which leads to larger institutions ranking above smaller ones like Dartmouth.<ref name="HEPI">{{cite web|url=http://www.hepi.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Hepi_International-university-rankings-For-good-or-for-ill-REPORT-89-10_12_16_Screen.pdf|title=International university rankings: For good or ill?|author=Bahram Bekhradnia|date=December 15, 2016|publisher=Higher Education Policy Institute|page=16|access-date=June 10, 2017|quote=ARWU presents a further data issue. Whereas in the case of the other rankings the results are adjusted to take account of the size of institutions, hardly any such adjustment is made by ARWU. So there is a distortion in favor of large institutions. If two institutions were to merge, the very fact of merger would mean that the merged institution would do nearly twice as well as either of the individual institutions prior to merger, although nothing else had changed.|archive-date=February 15, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170215055236/http://www.hepi.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Hepi_International-university-rankings-For-good-or-for-ill-REPORT-89-10_12_16_Screen.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref>

=== Admissions ===
{{Infobox U.S. college admissions
|year               = 2023 (Fall)
|ref                = {{nbsp}}for admissions and GPA;<ref name="CDS"/> 2020 (Fall) entering class for SAT/ACT, the most recent time it was required<ref name="CDS2021">{{cite web |title=Common Data Set 2020–2021 |url=https://www.dartmouth.edu/oir/pdfs/cds_2020-2021.pdf |website=Dartmouth College |access-date=January 18, 2024}}</ref>
|admit rate         = Overall: 6.23%<br />[[Early decision|ED]]: 19.9%<br />{{abbr|RD|Regular decision}}: 4.6%
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|SAT EBRW           = 710–770
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|SAT Math           = 730–790
|SAT Math change    = 
|ACT                = 32–35<!-- use an en-dash (–) -->
|ACT change         =
|top decile         = 94.5%
|top decile change  = 
|top quarter        = 98.3%
|top quarter change = 
|top half           = 99.8%
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Undergraduate admission to Dartmouth College is characterized by the Carnegie Foundation and ''U.S. News & World Report'' as "most selective".<ref name="Dartmouth U.S. News & World Report Summary">{{cite magazine|url=http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges/dartmouth-college-2573 |title=Dartmouth College |magazine=U.S. News & World Report |access-date=September 13, 2016 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160917133820/http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges/dartmouth-college-2573 |archive-date=September 17, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=The Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education: Four-year, full-time, most selective, lower transfer-in (2015) {{!}} Carnegie Classification |url=http://carnegieclassifications.iu.edu/lookup/srp.php?clq=%7B%22ugprfile2005_ids%22%3A%2214%22%7D |access-date=May 14, 2016 |archive-date=May 27, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200527104955/https://carnegieclassifications.iu.edu/lookup/srp.php?clq=%7B%22ugprfile2005_ids%22%3A%2214%22%7D |url-status=live}}</ref> The ''[[Princeton Review]]'', in its 2024 edition, gave the university an admissions selectivity rating of 99 out of 99.<ref name="Princeton Review Admissions Profile">{{cite web |title=Dartmouth College |url=https://www.princetonreview.com/college/dartmouth-college-1023117 |access-date=July 8, 2023 |publisher=The Princeton Review}}</ref>
[[File:Dartmouth College campus 2007-06-23 McNutt Hall 01.JPG|thumb|left|McNutt Hall, home to the Dartmouth Office of Undergraduate Admissions]]
For the freshman class entering Fall 2023, Dartmouth received a record 28,841 applications of which 6.2% were accepted, consistent with the prior two years; approximately 67% of those accepted are expected to matriculate. Of those admitted students who reported class rank, 444 were ranked first or second in their class, while 96% ranked in the top decile. The admitted students' academic profile showed an all-time high SAT average score of 1501, while the average composite ACT score remained at 33.<ref name="dartmouth6">{{cite web|url=https://news.dartmouth.edu/news/2020/03/dartmouth-offers-admission-exceptional-class-2024|title=Dartmouth admits 8.8 percent of applicants to Class of 2024|website=The Dartmouth|date=March 26, 2020 |access-date=April 14, 2020|archive-date=August 10, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200810092357/https://news.dartmouth.edu/news/2020/03/dartmouth-offers-admission-exceptional-class-2024|url-status=live}}</ref>

Additionally, for the 2016–2017 academic year, Dartmouth received 685 transfer applications of which 5.1% were accepted, with an average SAT composite score of 1490, average composite ACT score of 34, and average college GPA of about 3.85.<ref name="dartmouth.edu">{{cite web |url=http://www.dartmouth.edu/~oir/pdfs/cds_2016_2017.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170219115338/http://www.dartmouth.edu/~oir/pdfs/cds_2016_2017.pdf |archive-date=2017-02-19 |url-status=live |title= Data set |website=Dartmouth College}}</ref> Dartmouth meets 100% of students' demonstrated financial need in order to attend the college, and currently admits all students, including internationals, on a [[Need-blind admission|need-blind basis]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://thedartmouth.com/2015/09/18/college-ends-need-blind-admission-for-international-students/ |title=College ends need-blind admission for international students |access-date=September 28, 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150929223025/https://thedartmouth.com/2015/09/18/college-ends-need-blind-admission-for-international-students/ |archive-date=September 29, 2015}}</ref>

In 2020, Dartmouth made it optional for students applying to the college to submit their [[SAT]] scores due to the [[Covid-19 pandemic]].<ref>{{Cite news |title=Dartmouth will again require SAT, ACT scores. Other colleges won't necessarily follow |url=https://www.npr.org/2024/02/05/1229223433/sat-act-diversity-dartmouth-college-admissions |access-date=2025-02-20 |work=NPR |language=en}}</ref> In 2024, the college became the first Ivy League school to announce that it would once again require applicants to submit their test scores.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Leonhardt |first=David |date=2024-02-05 |title=A Top College Reinstates the SAT |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/05/briefing/dartmouth-sat.html |access-date=2025-02-20 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref>

=== Financial aid ===
Dartmouth guarantees to meet 100% of the demonstrated need of every admitted student who applies for financial aid at the time of admission. Dartmouth is one of seven American universities to practice international need-blind admissions.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Dartmouth Adopts Need-Blind International Admissions {{!}} Dartmouth |url=https://www.bowdoin.edu/news/2022/07/bowdoin-college-expands-need-blind-admissions-policy-to-include-international-students.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220817071814/https://www.bowdoin.edu/news/2022/07/bowdoin-college-expands-need-blind-admissions-policy-to-include-international-students.html |archive-date=August 17, 2022 |access-date=2022-12-30 |website=Bowdoin News |language=en}}</ref> This means that all applicants, including U.S. permanent residents, undocumented students in the U.S., and international students, are admitted to the college without regard to their financial circumstances. At Dartmouth, free tuition is provided for students from families with total incomes of $125,000 or less and possessing typical assets.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Dartmouth Expands Commitment to Middle-Income Families|date=May 9, 2021|url=https://president.dartmouth.edu/news/2021/05/dartmouth-expands-commitment-middle-income-families|access-date=May 14, 2021|archive-date=May 14, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210514150754/https://president.dartmouth.edu/news/2021/05/dartmouth-expands-commitment-middle-income-families|url-status=live}}</ref> Dartmouth is also one of a few U.S. universities to eliminate undergraduate student loans and replace them with expanded scholarship grants.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Archie |first=Ayana |date=2022-06-21 |title=Dartmouth College is eliminating loans from its financial aid packages |language=en |work=NPR |url=https://www.npr.org/2022/06/21/1106321170/dartmouth-college-student-loans-financial-aid-household-income |access-date=2022-08-02}}</ref> In 2015, $88.8 million (~${{Format price|{{Inflation|index=US-GDP|value=88800000|start_year=2015}}}} in {{Inflation/year|US-GDP}}) in need-based scholarships were awarded to Dartmouth students.

The median family income of Dartmouth students is $200,400, with 58% of students coming from the top 10% highest-earning families and 14% from the bottom 60%.<ref name="NYT mobility index">{{cite news |last1=Aisch |first1=Gregor |last2=Buchanan |first2=Larry |last3=Cox |first3=Amanda |last4=Quealy |first4=Kevin |title=Economic diversity and student outcomes at Dartmouth |url=https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/projects/college-mobility/dartmouth-university |access-date=August 9, 2020 |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=January 18, 2017}}</ref>{{Update inline|date=December 2022}}

However, a 2022 article from ''[[The Dartmouth]]'' disputes the college's claims by saying the following: "To put it all together with the $9 million of student debt from the Class of 2021, this change in Dartmouth policy, hailed as "eliminat[ing] loans for undergraduate students" actually eliminated only about a quarter—27.4% to be exact—of student loans for undergraduate students. So, while Dartmouth gets glowing coverage in news publications across the country, 72.6% of the debt it saddles its students with remains."<ref>{{Cite web |title=Novicoff: Dartmouth didn't get rid of even half of student loans for undergraduates |url=https://www.thedartmouth.com/article/2022/07/dartmouth-didnt-get-rid-of-even-half-of-all-student-loans-for-undergraduates |access-date=2022-08-02 |website=The Dartmouth}}</ref>

In March 2024, the estate of [[Glenn Britt]] gifted over $150 million to Dartmouth to enable students from middle-income families to attend the college for free.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-04-02 |title=Dartmouth Receives a $150M Gift from Late Time Warner Cable CEO Glenn Britt |url=https://observer.com/2024/04/dartmouth-receives-150-million-glenn-britt-estate-philanthropy/ |access-date=2025-02-20 |website=Observer |language=en-US}}</ref>

=== The Dartmouth Plan ===
[[File:Dartmouth College campus 2007-11-06 Baker Memorial Library 08 - Tower Room.JPG|thumb|left|upright=1|Tower Room in [[Baker Memorial Library]]]]
Dartmouth functions on a quarter system, operating year-round on four ten-week [[academic term]]s. The Dartmouth Plan (or simply "D-Plan") is an academic scheduling system that permits the customization of each student's academic year. All undergraduates are required to be in residence for the fall, winter, and spring terms of their freshman year and two terms of their senior year, as well as the summer term of their sophomore year.<ref name="d-plan-admin" /> However, students may petition to alter this plan so that they may be off during terms of their senior year or sophomore summer terms.<ref name="Petition for Change">{{cite news |title=Petition for Change in Enrollment Pattern |newspaper=Dartmouth |url=https://www.dartmouth.edu/reg/d_plan_petition_definitions.html#e |url-status=live |access-date=July 23, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140812173004/http://www.dartmouth.edu/~reg/docs/change_in_enrollment_pattern.pdf |archive-date=August 12, 2014}}</ref> During all terms, students are permitted to choose between studying on-campus, studying at an off-campus program, or taking a term off for vacation, outside internships, or research projects.<ref name="d-plan-admin" /> The typical course load is three classes per term, and students will generally enroll in classes for 12 total terms over the course of their academic career.<ref name="Working Rules and Procedures" />

The D-Plan was instituted in the early 1970s at the same time that Dartmouth began accepting female undergraduates. It was initially devised as a plan to increase the enrollment without enlarging campus accommodations, and has been described as "a way to put 4,000 students into 3,000 beds".<ref name="trd-wheelock" /> Although new dormitories have been built since, the number of students has also increased and the D-Plan remains in effect. It was modified in the 1980s in an attempt to reduce the problems of lack of social and academic continuity.

=== Board of trustees ===
[[File:Dartmouth Hall, Dartmouth College - general view.JPG|thumb|upright=1.1|[[Dartmouth Hall]] was reconstructed in 1906.]]
{{Main|Board of Trustees of Dartmouth College}}
Dartmouth is governed by a board of trustees comprising the college president (''ex officio''), the [[governor of New Hampshire|state governor]] (''ex officio''), 13 trustees nominated and elected by the board (called "charter trustees"), and eight trustees nominated by alumni and elected by the board ("alumni trustees").<ref name="Dartmouth Trustees vote to expand size of board" /> The nominees for alumni trustee are determined by a poll of the members of the Association of Alumni of Dartmouth College, selecting from among names put forward by the Alumni Council or by alumni petition.

Although the board elected its members from the two sources of nominees in equal proportions between 1891 and 2007,<ref name="Board of trustees vote to change how Dartmouth College is run" /> the board decided in 2007 to add several new members, all charter trustees.<ref name="Board adds 8 seats, ends century-old parity" /> In the controversy that followed the decision, the Association of Alumni filed a lawsuit, although it later withdrew the action.<ref name="Divided Association of Alumni sues College" /><ref name="thedartmouth2" /> In 2008, the board added five new charter trustees.<ref name="Dartmouth College's Board of Trustees Elects Five Alumni as New Trustees" />

=== International collaboration ===
The college is an active member of the [[University of the Arctic]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Members |url=https://www.uarctic.org/members/member-profiles/ |access-date=2025-03-06 |website=UArctic |language=en-US}}</ref> UArctic is an international cooperative network based in the Circumpolar Arctic region, consisting of more than 200 universities, colleges, and other organizations with an interest in promoting education and research in the Arctic region.<ref>{{Cite web |title=About Us |url=https://www.uarctic.org/about-us/ |access-date=2025-03-06 |website=UArctic - University of the Arctic |language=en-US}}</ref>