Dartmouth students and faculty share an adventuresome spirit, embracing opportunities and challenges with curiosity, courage, and tenacity. With the support of their classmates and professors, students leave their comfort zones to achieve beyond their expectations. As a base camp to the world, Dartmouth offers an intimate and inclusive community that serves as its students’ hub for intellectual and personal growth and their launch pad for worldwide studies and cultural immersion. You'll find students and alumni studying, working, and doing research in over 150 countries and on all seven continents. Dartmouth’s reach is truly global.

With a profound sense of place, Dartmouth’s setting encompasses extraordinary natural beauty that fosters a close-knit community, deep academic engagement, and lifelong bonds. Surrounded by the White Mountains to the east, the Green Mountains to the west, and sitting on the banks of the Connecticut River, Hanover, New Hampshire, is the quintessential New England college town. At Dartmouth, you’ll find a college rich in tradition and history, and all of life’s essentials within easy walking distance.