<p>I've heard about how fantastic and renowned certain departments are at certain colleges, such as Engineering at Cornell or History at Yale. </p>
<p>My question is, what are the departments Dartmouth excel at? As in Math, or Sciences, or English, Languages, etc</p>
<p>thanks</p>
<p>Philosophy.</p>
<p>Honestly the whole "department excels' thing is a graduate metric that is essentially meaningless for undergrad except in a few specific areas like accounting, film, engineering, and a couple others. Even in engineering, for example, department ranks are largely irrelevant. Most engineers from the Ivies end up going into finance or consulting after realizing these fields are much more lucrative than engineering. In the arts, particularly film, program ranks matter.</p>
<p>Dartmouth excels in all liberal arts areas, particularly when it comes to actual teaching, grad placement, and recruiting. The undergrad resources are incredible. I was an anthro major and got $10,000 for my thesis research plus TWO thesis advisors senior year. This in addition to another research grant my sophomore year. All the majors in my class who went to anthro grad school went to top 5 grad programs (Dartmouth is top 7 at grad placement, its amazing). These are the benefits of an undergrad focused school.</p>
<p>Agree with slipper. However, I can personally vouch for the Government, Earth Science and German departments- excellent, excellent excellent.</p>
<p>Chemistry at Dartmouth is awesome for undergrads.</p>
<p>Johnny182, thanks for that. That would partly justify my application to Dartmouth. :D</p>
<p>Oh, definitely. I'm a '10 and a prospective chem major here, so if you want to know more about the department, just let me know.</p>
<p>any comments on Econ?</p>
<p>You will not be at a loss of students at Dartmouth who are econ and gov't majors as they are 2 of the most popular majors. Econ at Dartmouth evn has its own study abroad program:</p>
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The Bocconi University Exchange program enables Dartmouth undergraduates to take advantage of the unique academic and cultural opportunities offered by Bocconi University. Economics is one of the few departments at Dartmouth without an off-campus program for its majors. The Economics Department has established the exchange with Bocconi University to encourage Economics students to study abroad.</p>
<p>A major focus of research and teaching in the Economics Department is International Economics. A term abroad offers exciting options for students to improve their understanding of the topics the department teaches (for example, the effects of globalization), for exposing students to current economic issues (for example, the effects of a common currency, the Euro, on economic growth) and to introduce students to different schools of economic thought
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<p>And math. Don't forget math.</p>
<p>So that's pretty much the entire college, lol. Excelling all round.</p>
<p>johnny, tell me about the chemistry department, are you going to do any research and apart from faculty support, is there a good amount of monetary support? Also, apart from that, how are the professors? Do TA's teach? How many go onto graduate school?</p>
<p>thanks</p>
<p>the government department here, as much as i can gather from my limited experience, is fantastic. also, though not my major area (or even a minor), i'm taking a class in religion to fullfill a distributive requirement, and while i can't speak for the entire department, my professor (susan ackerman) is absolutely fantastic.</p>
<p>according to Fiske,</p>
<p>Biological Sciences
Computer Science
Engineering
Economics
Languages (Yay!)
Psychological and Brain Sciences
Studio Art
Women's, Native American, and Environmental Studies</p>
<p>The History department is really excellent -- so many great professors. Earth science, too.</p>
<p>Really everything is quite good, though.</p>
<p>Oh, goody. Neuroscience is my prospective major, and that's one of the main reasons I'm so interested in the place.</p>
<p>Hmm, biological sciences is my prospective major (future premed).
does anyone know the stats of matriculation into Med schools? and does Dartmouth screen its Med school applicants and bar those with low stats from applying? thx</p>
<p>Last year (2006 matriculants) the med school acceptance rate was 83% (135/162). The average stats for an accepted student: overall GPA 3.51, BCPM 3.43, MCAT 11 VR/11 PS/11 BS/Q. That's with no screening whatsoever--the premed advising team is of the opinion that if you want to apply to medical school, they'll do everything they can to help you get in.</p>
<p>That said, I'm always a disappointed when people say they want to be doctors before they even matriculate. First off, anywhere you go, including Dartmouth, I'd estimate that well over 50% of those who claim to be premed will drop out of the track before the end of their freshman year. Second, the pre-frosh premeds tend to be the people going into medicine for the social prestige/money, which, imho, is a bad thing. </p>
<p>Of my friends (Dartmouth alumni, mainly) who are now in medical school, the students who are doing the best, enjoying themselves the most, and (usually) at the best medical schools are the ones who didn't decide to hop on the premed track until sophomore, junior, or even senior year.</p>