<p>What is the most popular major(s) at Dartmouth?
What do most graduates eventually become?</p>
<p>Best placement of the non-HYP Ivies, arguably best placement into elite jobs (after HYP) such as Ibanking and consulting, highest peace corp percentage of universities/ Most spent on advising per undergrad, no TAs, top 8 in terms of graduate school placement, highest donating back (alumni loyalty) after Princeton, largest percentage returning for renuion (tied with Princeton), highest average salary after 10 years (payscale). </p>
<p>The happiest, most relaxed, fun, laid back, and successful grads of any school I know.</p>
<p>Wow that sounds great. But what are the most popular majors that Dartmouth offers?</p>
<p>check IPEDS and you can search for the size of individual departments.</p>
<p>“Most popular” does not necessarily equal “best.” That said, D is well-known for its language teaching, and the Government and Economics departments seem to be popular.</p>
<p>Yeah, I would say Economics, Government, and languages. Also, Dartmouth places as well as HYP in Ibanking. And don’t forget that both Timothy Geithner and Henry Paulson went to D ;)</p>
<p>languages, gov, econ, pre med track(not a major, though) are huge.</p>
<p>No way Dartmouth places into I-banking as well as Penn. Even excluding Wharton, not a chance.</p>
<p>I’m just wondering, frenchwarrior, what are the reasons you believe Dartmouth is inferior to Penn CAS and Wharton in I-banking? You seem pretty adamant, and from everything I’ve heard, Dartmouth is at/just under the same level as Wharton and above the level of Penn CAS?
I’m not trying to sound egotistical as they are all great schools and I’m sure there is an overlap between all three (among many others); I am just interested in your reasoning and hearing any other opinions. </p>
<p>Thanks.</p>
<p>I would agree with frankyd31 on his comparison of other institutions to Dartmouth. To be honest, Dartmouth does extremely well in Economics simply because of the quality of professors and the internship placement of the school. Though it’s in the middle of nowhere, Dartmouth does place a suprisingly large number of people into internships at many large iBanking firms, i.e, Goldman Sachs. Check the iBanking thread for more info on this. HYP tend to be good at Econ but also many other non-business quantitative subjects, like Physics, Math and possibly Chemistry. This gives students a better foundation from which to learn how to carry out complex business math. I was wondering if Dartmouth had any strong departments in the quantitative sciences like these. Does anyone know of such a department? (I’m a freshman, btw)</p>
<p>how about math department</p>