Dartmouth vs Middlebury vs Bowdoin

Corbett
Fri, 08 Dec 2017 00:54:59 +0000

In other words, the AB and BE aren’t two separate tracks. You don’t start your Dartmouth engineering career by committing to one or the other.

Every Dartmouth engineer starts on the AB track, which provides lots of room to explore other fields, and potentially to double-major.

After four years, every Dartmouth engineer gets an AB degree. There’s just one catch: this is not a “real” engineering degree.

You don’t make a final decision between the AB and BE until your senior year. At that point, you may decide that the (less marketable) AB degree is good enough, and leave Dartmouth after four years of study. Alternatively, you can decide to stay at Dartmouth for a fifth year, which will “upgrade” the AB to the (more marketable) BE.