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Tuck School of Business

The Amos Tuck School of Business Administration at Dartmouth College[4] is the graduate business school of Dartmouth College, a private Ivy League research university in Hanover, New Hampshire. The school only offers a Master of Business Administration degree program.

Other name

Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth
Tuck School, Tuck

Amos Tuck School of Administration and Finance (1900–1941)

January 19, 1900 (1900-01-19)[1]

IncreaseUS$ 600 million (2021)

53 full-time[2]

Founded in 1900, the Tuck School was the first institution in the world to offer a master's degree in business administration.[5][6][7][8]


The Tuck School awards only one degree, the Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree, through a full-time, residential program. Tuck is known for its rural setting and small class size — each MBA class consists of about 280 students. As such, both factors, combined with Tuck's commitment to the full-time MBA program, contribute to its high giving rate among the 10,300 Tuck alumni across 73 countries.[2] Almost 70% of all Tuck alumni regularly give to the school, the highest rate among business schools worldwide.


Graduates of the Tuck School of Business earn some of the highest salaries of MBA programs in the United States. MBA graduates of Tuck earned an average $170,000 first year compensation, not including performance-based bonuses or equity-based compensation, the third highest of all US-based MBA programs.[9] Tuck's MBA program ties for 9th place with MIT for the highest average GMAT score of 722 for its entering class.[10]

Business Rankings

MBA/Master of Arts in Law and Diplomacy from at Tufts University

The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy

MBA/Master of Studies in Environmental Law from the

Vermont Law School

MD/MBA from the at Dartmouth

Geisel School of Medicine

/MBA from the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice

Master of Public Health

Master of Engineering Management/MBA from the at Dartmouth[42]

Thayer School of Engineering

People[edit]

Students[edit]

Tuck students, known as "Tuckies", typically number about 560 students in total — 280 per class — with international students making up about 37% of the student body.[64] The school has a high percentage of women (44% vs. Harvard's 41% and Columbia's 41%) and has been recognized as having "the best representation of women among top-tier M.B.A. programs" alongside Wharton's MBA program.[65][64][66] This marks an 11% increase in female representation at Tuck from 2013.[67] 23% of Tuck's student body are domestic U.S. minorities, a relatively average figure when compared to HBS (28%) and MIT Sloan (15%).[68][69][64] Tuck has addressed previous diversity shortcomings by offering additional scholarships to minority applicants and by promoting such programs as the annual Tuck Diversity Conference and participation in the Forté Foundation for women in business.[35][70][71]


Like many other business schools, Tuck encourages its students to have post-undergraduate work experience before applying to the MBA program.[72][73] The average incoming student has five years of full-time work experience, and the average student age is 28, ranging from 25 to 32 years.[3][74]

Dartmouth College

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