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unitid 182670 · Hanover, NH · private nonprofit 4-year · town (remote)

Dartmouth College

Private university in Hanover, New Hampshire, US

founded
1769
enrollment 2023
7,360
predominant degree
Bachelor's
Campus of Dartmouth College

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Dartmouth College is a private Ivy League research university in Hanover, New Hampshire, United States. Established in 1769 by Eleazar Wheelock, Dartmouth is one of the nine colonial colleges chartered before the American Revolution. wikipedia rev 1364260969

scorecard 2026-06 · percentiles within private nonprofit 4-years

The record

admission rate

5%

1st pctl among private nonprofit 4-years

undergraduates

4,541

92nd pctl among private nonprofit 4-years

Pell share

14%

undergrads on Pell grants

10th pctl among private nonprofit 4-years

completion

96%

finish within 150% time

97th pctl among private nonprofit 4-years

sticker cost / yr

$87,793

98th pctl among private nonprofit 4-years

avg net price / yr

$29,519

after aid, aided students

79th pctl among private nonprofit 4-years

median earnings, 10 yr

$97,434

after entry, Title IV students

97th pctl among private nonprofit 4-years

median grad debt

$17,500

13th pctl among private nonprofit 4-years

what families actually pay

Cost

Sticker price is a fiction for most families — net price is what aided students pay after grants, by family income.

Average net price by family income, 2023–24 aid cohort

Families earning under $30k paid $41 per year after aid.

Dashed hollow marks are privacy-suppressed brackets — not zero. Band: middle half of private nonprofit 4-years (all incomes).

Who enrolls, by family income

  • 0-30k
    20%
  • 30-48k
    12%
  • 48-75k
    not reported
  • 75-110k
    not reported
  • 110k+
    not reported
Median family income
$68,456
First-generation students
17%
In-state tuition & fees
$68,268

earnings · debt · programs

Outcomes

Median earnings after entry, working grads with federal aid

Ten years out, the median graduate earns 5.6× the median graduate debt.

Earnings cover federally aided (Title IV) students only.

What programs pay — top fields of study

programgradsearn 5 yrdebt
Economics.196$153,295$18,400
Political Science and Government.182$101,103$17,500
Engineering, General.155
Business Administration, Management and Operations.150$244,019
Management Sciences and Quantitative Methods.148
Computer Science.136$192,848$18,490
Biology, General.86$75,571$17,030
Public Health.86
Engineering Science.79$99,468$17,083
Geography and Environmental Studies.78
Medicine.74$116,713
Mathematics.64$11,617

— is privacy suppression at small programs, never zero. Earnings are median, 5 years after completing.

annual scorecard files, 1996–2026

Trajectory

Line breaks are years where the measure wasn't collected — a gap is not a zero.

Admission rate

Price per year

  • sticker
  • net

Median earnings, 10 yrs after entry

Undergraduates

wikidata · 3,881 people recorded

Memory

Wikidata is not an alumni census: a person appears only when volunteer editors record them. Counts measure the archive's memory - access x achievement x documentation - never placement rates or institutional quality.

Field fingerprint — share of recorded alumni by field

Women among recorded alumni, by birth decade

People without a recorded gender are excluded; decades with fewer than 5 recorded alumni are dropped.

Wikipedia attention

monthly article views since 2015

most recorded occupationsresearcher (688) · basketball player (561) · politician (455) · lawyer (383) · university teacher (302) · writer (183) · judge (139) · journalist (135)

Nobel laureates who studied here

  • Owen Chamberlain Physics 1959
  • George Davis Snell Medicine 1980
  • Karl Barry Sharpless Chemistry 2001
  • Karl Barry Sharpless Chemistry 2022

The portrait wall

Sized by nothing, ordered by Wikipedia footprint (language editions).

Also recorded: George Davis Snell.

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Provenance

  • U.S. Dept. of Education College Scorecard, 2026-06 release. Earnings cover federally aided (Title IV) students only. Suppressed values are null, never imputed.
  • Annual Scorecard files 1996-2026. A null in early years usually means the measure was not yet collected, not zero.
  • Coordinates and locale describe the campus address, not where students live.
  • Wikidata is not an alumni census: a person appears only when volunteer editors record them. Counts measure the archive's memory - access x achievement x documentation - never placement rates or institutional quality.
  • Images are from Wikimedia Commons under free licenses. Render the credit line (artist + license) with every image.
  • Lead text from Wikipedia (revision 1364260969), CC BY-SA 4.0.