Dartmouth College is a private nonprofit research university / college in Hanover, New Hampshire, with institutional roots dating to 1769. Chartered in 1769 by New Hampshire’s royal governor, Dartmouth grew from a colonial college into an Ivy League research institution that retains a strong undergraduate liberal-arts focus alongside graduate and professional schools in medicine, engineering, business, and advanced study. Academically, the institution is shaped by arts and humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, engineering, medicine, business, and interdisciplinary graduate research. Undergraduate students encounter a flexible liberal-arts curriculum with distributive requirements, majors, minors, undergraduate research, off-campus programs, and the distinctive D-Plan quarter calendar. Graduate and professional education extends into master’s, doctoral, medical, engineering, business, public-health, and interdisciplinary programs through the Guarini School and professional schools. Teaching commonly combines seminars, lectures, laboratories, research, field study, design, clinical education, case discussion, and small-group instruction, allowing students to move from foundational coursework into increasingly specialized academic, professional, creative, or research work. Research at Dartmouth is particularly visible in biomedicine, engineering, computer science, energy, climate, Arctic studies, public policy, economics, neuroscience, and the humanities. The institution supports this activity through the Arts and Sciences faculty, Thayer School laboratories, Geisel School research facilities, major libraries, the Dartmouth Hitchcock academic health environment, and interdisciplinary institutes. Dartmouth College undergraduates in areas such as Anthropology and Art History can pursue faculty-guided research, projects, fieldwork, studios, clinical experiences, or other experiential formats supported by their programs, while graduate students work within deeper disciplinary or interdisciplinary research settings. Student life includes the house-community system, student organizations, athletics, outdoor programs, arts, research, public service, and a highly residential Hanover experience. The setting matters because Hanover provides a close-knit rural college-town setting with direct access to forests, mountains, outdoor field sites, and the Dartmouth Health network. At Dartmouth College, advising and student life in Hanover complement academics through organizations, cultural programs, athletics, public service, entrepreneurship, and career preparation tied to the campus community. Admissions and affordability are institution-specific. Dartmouth is need-blind for undergraduate applicants regardless of citizenship, meets 100% of demonstrated need, and packages need-based aid without required student loans; Dartmouth institutional scholarships are need-based. Dartmouth College tuition can vary by residency, school, degree level, enrollment status, or cohort when the university publishes separate pricing structures. For Dartmouth College graduate students, funding varies by program; areas such as Computer Science and Engineering may use assistantships, fellowships, scholarships, research support, or external awards under their published rules. Overall, Dartmouth College combines an undergraduate-centered Ivy League environment, small classes, a flexible quarter system, strong professional schools, and a distinctive rural New England setting. Dartmouth College's academic structure supports choices ranging from Anthropology to Art History, while individual schools retain their own requirements and student communities. Dartmouth’s D-Plan allows students to distribute enrollment and leave terms across the year, creating unusual flexibility for internships, research, and off-campus study. The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio is low, and the institution emphasizes direct faculty contact despite maintaining major research and professional schools.