Tuck School of Business – Dartmouth College

FAQ

What is the tuition for Tuck's MBA program?

The tuition for Tuck’s MBA program is $77,520 per year.

How hard is it to get into Tuck's MBA program?

The acceptance rate for Tuck is 22.1% It is important to consider the acceptance rate in the context of the student profile of those who are admitted. For example the average GMAT score is 726.

What is the average GMAT score for admission to Tuck's MBA program?

The average GMAT score for the incoming class at Tuck is 726. The GMAT range is 610 to 790.

Does the Tuck MBA program accept the GRE?

Yes. The Tuck MBA program has accepted the GRE for several years now.

What is the average GRE score for admission to Tuck's MBA program?

The average GRE score for the incoming class at Tuck is 162 Verbal average 162 Quant average.

What is the minimum number of years of work experience required for admission to Tuck's MBA program?

Tuck does not state a minimum requirement for years of work experience. However, it is important for candidates to be aware that they are being considered against other candidates with an average of 5.6 years of experience.

What is the average number of years of work experience for admission to Tuck's MBA program? (or, What is the average age of a Tuck student?)

The average number of years of work experience among students in Tuck's MBA program is 5.6.

What is the median starting salary for graduates of the Tuck MBA program?

The average median starting salary for Tuck MBA graduates is $175,000 with a median signing bonus of $30,000. The salary will vary by industry, with consulting and finance jobs generally commanding the higher salaries.

How long is Tuck's full-time MBA program?

Tuck offers a traditional 2-year MBA program.

What are the application deadlines for Tuck's MBA program?

The Round 1 MBA application deadline is September 26, 2022. The Round 2 application deadline is January 4, 2023. The Round 3 deadline is March 27, 2023.

What percent of Tuck MBA students are women?

The percentage of the class at Tuck that are women is 45%.

What type of interview does Tuck use for MBA admissions?

All Round 1 applicants who submit their complete application, including Letters of Reference, by September 1, 2022 (or October 1, 2022, if applying to Tuck through the Consortium), and all Round 2/Round 2 Consortium applicants who submit their complete application by December 1, 2022, will be guaranteed an interview. For all other applicants, interviews are offered by invitation only. Tuck will review your application and invite you to interview if they believe it will help them learn more about how you demonstrate their admissions criteria.

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Admissions

The Class Profile

Tuck’s Class of 2024 has 287 students who arrived with an average of 67 months of full-time work experience by the time of matriculation. Forty-three percent of students entering in 2022 are international and 31% of U.S. students identify as members of a U.S. minority group. Forty-five percent of the class is comprised of women.

The average GMAT score of 2022 entrants was 726, with the middle 80% range of scores from 610 to 790, and the average GPA was 3.52. Thirty-eight percent had submitted GRE scores for the standardized test requirement. For the GRE results, the Verbal average was 162 and the Quantitative average was also 162. Forty-one percent of first-year students completed undergraduate majors in humanities, social sciences, or the arts, followed by engineering, tech, math, or science at 30%, and business at 28%.

Application Procedures

Tuck offers three rounds for admissions that run from late September until March.  All applicants must complete Tuck’s online application form, except for applicants submitting their materials through the Consortium for Graduate Study in Management.  In addition to this form, non-Consortium applicants must submit a non­refundable application fee of $250, academic transcripts from all academic institutions attended, their GMAT or GRE results, essays, letters of reference, and DET, IELTS, PTE, or TOEFL results if applicable.

Tuck provides guaranteed on-campus interviews for Round 1 applicants who submit a completed application by September 1, and for Round 2 applicants who submit a completed application by December 1. For all other applicants, interviews are by invitation only and may be virtual.

Application Checklist

• Online Application
• GMAT/GRE score(s)
• DET, IELTS, PTE, or TOEFL score(s) if applicable
• Resume
• Academic Transcripts
• Letters of Reference
• Application fee
• Essays

Interview Reports

Dartmouth Tuck MBA Interview Questions & Report: Round 2 / Second-Year Student / Zoom

I applied by December 1st (guaranteed interview) and interviewed on December 6th with a second-year student via Zoom: Interviewer: Intro, Agenda, Little about themself Questions (obviously from a template, but follow-up questions led to more of a conversational back-and-forth) – Walk me through your resume / tell me about yourself. – Why MBA? – Why […]

Dartmouth Tuck Interview Questions & Report: Round 2 / Second-Year Student / Zoom

1. Walk me through your CV. 2. Why MBA and why now? 3. Why Tuck? 4. Greatest achievement – professional or personal? 5. Most useful negative feedback received? 6. Negative feedback given? 7. Question for the interviewer and her experience?

Dartmouth Tuck MBA Interview Questions & Report: Round 2 / Second-Year Student / Virtual

Consortium applicant. Tuck Admissions Associate (2nd-year student) showed up on the call very promptly. She introduced herself and ran through the interview format. She mentioned that it’s okay if I didn’t have an answer to any behavioral question to ask for another question. Questions were: 1. Tell me about yourself. 2. Short- and long-term career […]

Dartmouth Tuck Interview Questions & Report: Round 2 / Second-Year Student / Zoom

I applied to Tuck before December 1 for a guaranteed interview. The interviewer was a 2Y MBA student. The interviewer was extremely friendly and had a genuine passion for Tuck. Interview questions: – Tell me about yourself. – Walk me through your resume. – Why MBA/Why Tuck/Why now? – Describe a time you received constructive […]

Dartmouth Tuck Interview Questions & Report: Round 1 / Second-Year Student / Zoom

Interview was 30 minutes of initial intro and questions about me. Last 10-15 were for me to ask questions of her. Overall tone was very friendly and conversational. Interview was resume based, not application based. There were definitely some questions that she needed to ask, but the interview flowed naturally with follow-up questions that drew […]

Dartmouth Tuck Interview Questions & Report: Round 1 / Second-Year Student / Zoom

It was an interview by a second-year student virtually via Zoom. It was profile-based questions followed by situation-based questions and lasted for 45 minutes. The interviewer lived up to Tuck’s reputation and was super nice and made me feel extremely relaxed and comfortable. No surprises in terms of questions, they were all per usual. Questions: […]

Dartmouth Tuck MBA Interview Questions & Report: Round 1 / Second-Year Student / Zoom

The interviewer was a friendly second-year student, we started with some small talk. The interview was only based on my resume. It lasted 45 minutes. I received the following questions: Tell me about yourself. Why did you choose your first job? Tell me about these specific interests on your resume. Why Tuck? Why is now […]

Dartmouth Tuck Interview Questions & Report: Round 1 / Second-Year Student / Zoom

Questions asked: 1.) Walk me through your resume. 2.) Why MBA? 3.) Short term/ long term goals? 4.) Why Tuck? 5.) How would you contribute at Tuck? 6.) What is a challenge you’d foresee coming to Tuck? 7.) Out of Tuck’s criteria, which one resonates with you the most? (smart, accomplished, aware // note that […]

Dartmouth Tuck Interview Questions & Report: Round 2 / Second-Year Student / Zoom

Interview with second-year student at Tuck was quite conversational and lasted about 50 minutes. The questions were standard: – Why MBA? – Why now? – Why Tuck? – What are your ST and LT goals? But also included a fair amount of behavioral questions: – What were your biggest challenges at work? Can you give […]

Dartmouth Tuck Interview Questions & Report: Round 1 / Second-Year Student / Zoom

Interview was casual and student was friendly. However, order of questions was unexpected. Student asked: -Do you like your current job? How did you get there? -How did you obtain your first job? -What are the top 3 factors that led you to your success? -Tell me a time where you had to work under […]

Tuck Q&As

Admissions Director Q&A: Amy Mitson & Pat Harrison of the Dartmouth Tuck School of Business

Get the inside scoop on MBA admissions at Dartmouth Tuck, as Co-Executive Directors of Admissions & Financial Aid, Amy Mitson and Pat Harrison, share everything you need to know about the leading business school in this edition of our Admissions Director Q&A. Since 2000, Amy Mitson has been at Tuck and currently serves on the […]

Admissions Director Q&A: Luke Peña of the Dartmouth Tuck School of Business

Luke Peña is the Executive Director of Admissions and Financial Aid at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College.  Luke still vividly remembers the highs and lows of applying to business school 11 years ago. He cares deeply about reducing stress and anxiety for business school applicants, and regularly provides updates for applicants on the Tuck360 blog as […]

Admissions Director Q&A: Luke Anthony Peña of Dartmouth Tuck School of Business

Since 2017, Dartmouth Tuck‘s Executive Director of Admissions and Financial Aid, Luke Anthony Peña, has developed and implemented strategies for recruiting, selecting, and enrolling MBA candidates who possess the greatest potential to become tomorrow’s wise leaders and contribute to and thrive in Tuck’s distinctly immersive learning community. Peña previously served as director of MBA admissions […]

Dartmouth / Tuck LiveWire and DecisionWire

Academics

Faculty

Tuck’s 65 full-time and clinical faculty members teach MBA courses across 16 areas of expertise. The faculty also contribute to Tuck’s six centers, which study topics ranging from digital strategies to healthcare to energy. Thanks to Tuck’s scale, students benefit from superior faculty-to-student ratios, small-size elective courses, and unparalleled person-to-person access to professors.

Curriculum

Tuck’s faculty members generally use a combination of lecture and discussion to convey course material. Tuck’s small incoming classes of about 290 MBA students are each divided into four sections who often work together throughout their Fall Term. These sections are further divided into study groups of five to six students each.

The Tuck MBA program runs on a quarter schedule, with three terms of classes and a Summer Term reserved for internships. Tuck’s pre-term, including the very popular and recently redesigned orientation program, formerly known as Outward Bound, now called Tuck Launch, typically takes place across two weeks in mid-July. Formal orientation spans two weeks in the middle of August, and first-year classes commence in late August, one week before second-year classes start. Fall examinations correspondingly occur at different times for first- and second-year students, though all conclude around mid-December.

Students’ first year is further divided into Summer and Fall terms, and Summer courses and exams conclude in early October before Fall work begins. In the spring, students complete the mandatory First-Year Project (FYP), a staple of the Tuck program that puts student’s comprehension of the first-year curriculum to the test through a five-student consulting project undertaken for real businesses. Students may propose their own projects or pursue a number of cases provided by the school.

Tuck students take 14 required courses, including the FYP, and two electives in the first year and often satisfy the ethics and social responsibility mini-course core requirement in their second years. Mini-courses are offered alongside full-term courses yet meet for fewer weeks. In total, students must complete 41.5 credits in year one and 36 in year two, or 76.5 in order to graduate.

Second-year students have their choice of over 100 electives. Tuck students do not have the option to pursue a major, but they can tailor their curriculum to specialize in areas such as finance and marketing. Most second-year students pursue an independent study at Tuck, allowing them to work under two faculty members to explore diverse topics in their fields of interest. Second-year students can also apply for the chance to spend a semester abroad at one of Tuck’s international partner programs.

In addition, Tuck offers several unique learning opportunities, including its Research-to-Practice Seminars that let students weigh in on faculty members’ most up-to-date research. MBA students can also undertake a field study course through the OnSite Global Consulting, through which students spend four to six weeks performing on-site research and analysis of firms and NGOs internationally before presenting their findings to both U.S.-based and overseas senior management teams. The Healthcare Initiative is another diverse aspect of the Tuck MBA, bringing resources and industry leaders from across Dartmouth and beyond to help Tuck students become thought leaders in the healthcare space.

Other MBA Degree Options

The Tuck School of Business offers only the MBA degree, and the only route for attaining it is the full-time, two-year program. However, Tuck does provide four joint-degree options within Dartmouth: the MD/MBA, MPH/MBA, MEM/MBA and PhD/MBA. Six dual degrees—the MBA/MAIR, MBA/MALD, MBA/MELP, MBA/MPA, MBA/MPA/ID and MBA/MPP—are also offered in conjunction with other institutions in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic.

First-Year Curriculum

Summer
Analytics I
Management Communication
Financial Accounting
Managing People
Managerial Economics

Fall
Capital Markets
Analytics II
Crafting Strategy
Marketing

Winter
Corporate Finance
Global Economics for Managers
Electives

Spring
First-Year Project
Operations Management
Managing Organizations
Electives

Degree Offerings at Tuck

Full-time MBA
www.tuck.dartmouth.edu/mba/

Joint Degrees within Dartmouth College
MD/MBA, MPH/MBA, PhD/MBA, MEM/MBA
http://www.tuck.dartmouth.edu/mba/academic-experience/joint-and-dual-degrees

Dual Degrees with other institutions
MBA/MAIR, MBA/MALD, MBA/MELP, MBA/MPA, MBA/MPA/ID, MBA/MPP
http://www.tuck.dartmouth.edu/mba/academic-experience/joint-and-dual-degrees

Campus Life

Clubs, Conferences & Competitions

Despite the school’s small size, Tuck students can engage in over 70 student groups on campus. Club focuses include professional, cultural, special and athletic interests. The school also supports a relatively large number of social interest and volunteering initiatives such as the Tuck Ambassador Program and Tuck Community Consulting. Students interested in event organizing and volunteering have opportunities both in the Hanover community, through events such as Tuck Volunteers, and more broadly through conferences such as the Women in Business Conference.

Each year, Tuck hosts a range of conferences; some notable examples are the Diversity Conference and the Private Equity Conference. MBA students can also take part in a number of competitions both within the school and on a national level. These include the Venture Capital Investment Competition, Dartmouth Entrepreneurs Forum, and the Negotiation Challenge, to name a few.

Campus Spaces

Dartmouth’s picturesque New England campus also houses the Tuck campus, which is comprised of 11 connected buildings. Three key academic buildings are the Murdough Center, Tuck Hall and Byrne Hall. The school describes itself as having a “residential program,” and so its three residence halls are active places in which to build a community. Tuck students may opt to live in Dartmouth’s graduate housing or can choose to live in both on- and off-campus apartments; unlike at many other leading programs, many students choose to live on campus.

MBA Careers

Career Services

Career Services at Tuck offers students ample opportunities to investigate new careers and find leading management positions in line with their existing career interests. On-campus recruiting begins in the winter term for first-year students and in the fall for second-years. During this time the office hosts workshops and panels, job postings and company briefings, and it also organizes global career trips for student organizations with professional focuses on a particular industry or region.

Tuck students benefit from individual counseling from Career Advisers, who bring diverse experience from a range of industries to guide Tuck students in their career choices. In addition to alumni networking support, Tuck-specific resources are available for both full-time employment and internship seekers, such as the Maynard Internship Program. Students can also find nonprofit internship information and funding through Tuck GIVES and the Revers Board Fellows.

Career Statistics

Graduates of the Class of 2022 received a median base salary of $175,000 in their post-MBA roles, with a median signing bonus of $30,000. Forty-seven percent of the class chose to work in consulting. Financial services followed with 20% of graduates, and technology drew 11% of the class. The healthcare/pharma/biotech and consumer goods/retail industries drew 9% and 5% of the class, respectively, while another 2% of graduates each went into manufacturing, energy, or government/non-profit/education. The largest group of graduates, 51%, chose job functions in consulting, and 20% took finance positions. The next most pursued post-MBA functions were marketing and general management at 13% and 10%, respectively.

Fifty-nine percent of 2022 graduates took post-MBA positions in the Northeastern U.S., lending credence to the trend that graduates often find work in the region where their school is located. The second highest percentage of Tuck graduates, 12%, opted to move to the West Coast, while 3% found employment internationally and the remainder spread out throughout the U.S.

Financing

Tuition for the Tuck MBA program is $77,520 for the 2022-2023 academic year.  However, the school notes that students will incur several other costs, such as expenses for books and supplies, room and board, and health and general spending.  Due to slight differences in estimated costs for first- and second-year students, the total estimated yearly cost for first-year students is $120,325 while the total cost for second-year students is placed at $119,454.

Applicants are automatically considered for Tuck scholarships upon submitting a completed application.  U.S. citizens and permanent residents can pay for their education through federal loans, and Tuck provides loan options that do not require a U.S. co-borrower for international applicants.

Cost of Attendance (Academic Year 2022-23, Class of 2024)

Tuition $77,520

Books & Supplies $1,500

Housing

• On Campus $14,000
• Off Campus $16,215

Program Fee $4,429

Miscellaneous Living Expenses

• On Campus $13,213
• Off Campus $16,498

Health Insurance $4,163

Totals

On Campus $114,825

Off Campus $120,325

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