USNews: Dartmouth #9

FountainSiren
Fri, 19 Aug 2005 07:21:04 +0000

I bought a copy yesterday at B&N.

If Dartmouth were not so undergrad focused it would have been rated even higher.

The fact is that schools with well known grad schools (and thus an emphasis on grad school students) get a reputational bump in peer assessment which accounts for 25% of the overall rating.

With this in mind, for Dartmouth College to be repeatedly in the top 10 National Universities, as a university, says a great deal about the school.

Dartmouth is known as much for being an LAC as a university so I think it presents a unique challenge to those who view everything in a cut and dried numerical fashion.

In my opinion, Dartmouth College is the best mix available, inasmuch as it has the resources of a University and the undergrad focus of a Liberal Arts College.

It would have made the top 10 in both categories: National Universities and Liberal Arts Colleges (would have hit it out of the park, in fact).

Dartmouth College offers the best deal in undergrad education (and the most happening students!).