by our College Data Analytics Team
College Factual analyzes over 2,000 colleges and universities in its annual rankings and ranks them in a variety of ways, including most diverse, best overall quality, best for non-traditional students, and much more.
Dartmouth College was awarded 66 badges in the 2025 rankings. The highest ranked major at the school is political science & government.
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Dartmouth landed the #12 spot in College Factual's 2025 ranking of best overall colleges in the United States. The higher ed experts analyzed 2,152 colleges and universities across the nation to determine this ranking. This puts it in the top 1% of all schools in the nation! This is an improvement over the previous year, when Dartmouth held the #25 spot on the Best Overall Colleges list.
Dartmouth is also ranked #1 out of 17 schools in New Hampshire.
Dartmouth College has a very low acceptance rate of 6%, making it one of the most selective out of all the colleges and universities in the nation. It's probably a good idea to apply to other schools in addition to Dartmouth just in case you don't make the cut.
About 42% of students accepted to Dartmouth submitted their SAT scores. When looking at the 25th through the 75th percentile, SAT Evidence-Based Reading and Writing scores ranged between 740 and 780. Math scores were between 760 and 800.
The student to faculty ratio is often used to measure the number of teaching resources that a college or university offers its students. The national average for this metric is 15 to 1, but at Dartmouth it is much better at 7 to 1. That's good news for students who want to interact more on a personal level with their teachers.
Another measure that is often used to estimate how much access students will have to their professors is how many faculty members are full-time. The idea here is that part-time faculty tend to spend less time on campus, so they may not be as available to students as full-timers.
The full-time faculty percentage at Dartmouth College is 81%. This is higher than the national average of 47%.
The freshmen retention rate of 98% tells us that most first-year, full-time students like Dartmouth College enough to come back for another year. This is a fair bit higher than the national average of 68%. That's certainly something to check off in the good column about the school.
Students are considered to have graduated on time if they finish their studies within four years. At Dartmouth the on-time graduation rate of first-time, full-time students is 88%. That is great when compared to the national average of 33.3%
Find out more about the retention and graduation rates at Dartmouth College.
During the 2017-2018 academic year, there were 4,170 undergraduates at Dartmouth with 4,169 being full-time and 1 being part-time.
| $0-30 K | $30K-48K | $48-75 | $75-110K | $110K + |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $2,438 | $4,073 | $5,903 | $17,440 | $55,770 |
The net price is calculated by adding tuition, room, board and other costs and subtracting financial aid.Note that the net price is typically less than the published for a school. For more information on the sticker price of Dartmouth, see our tuition and fees and room and board pages.
It's not uncommon for college students to take out loans to pay for school. In fact, almost 66% of students nationwide depend at least partially on loans. At Dartmouth, approximately 43% of students took out student loans averaging $6,404 a year. That adds up to $25,616 over four years for those students.
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Contact details for Dartmouth are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 207 Parkhurst Hall, Hanover, NH 03755-3529 |
| Phone: | 603-646-1110 |
| Website: | www.dartmouth.edu/ |
| Most Popular Majors | Bachelor’s Degrees | Average Salary of Graduates |
|---|---|---|
| Germanic Languages | 273 | NA |
| Economics | 170 | $94,675 |
| Computer Science | 165 | $132,919 |
| Business Administration & Management | 153 | NA |
| Political Science & Government | 153 | $72,618 |
| General Engineering | 134 | NA |
| Management Sciences & Quantitative Methods | 124 | NA |
| Engineering Science | 122 | $89,929 |
| Medicine | 99 | NA |
| Child Development & Psychology | 71 | $42,947 |
Online learning is becoming popular at even the oldest colleges and universities in the United States. Not only are online classes great for returning adults with busy schedules, they are also frequented by a growing number of traditional students.
In 2022-2023, 117 students took at least one online class at Dartmouth College. This is a decrease from the 144 students who took online classes the previous year.
| Year | Took at Least One Online Class | Took All Classes Online |
|---|---|---|
| 2022-2023 | 117 | 0 |
| 2021-2022 | 144 | 0 |
| 2020-2021 | 5,374 | 3,582 |
| 2018-2019 | 140 | 0 |
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Footnotes
*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.
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