New Tuck Program
To HELP MEET the serious shortage of professionally trained men in war industries, government agencies, and the supply and quartermaster corps of the armed forces, the Amos Tuck School of Business Administration has announced that for the duration of the war it will reduce its foursemester curriculum to three and will admit Dartmouth undergraduates upon completion of five rather than six semesters of work. This acceleration, approved by the Board of Trustees of the College, will make the Tuck School course entirely undergraduate, leading to the A.B. degree at the end of the senior year.
The new three-semester plan will start with the admission of the senior class in May, and the first juniors will be eligible for admission in September, after which juniors with five semesters' credits may enter in any of the three terms of the School's continuous schedule. Seniors starting with the summer term will receive the A. B. degree at the end of two semesters and a special certificate at the end of the third semester. Men now enrolled in the Tuck School will finish out the normal four-semester course, and the combined TuckThayer Major will also continue as a fourterm course.
ADMISSION STANDARDS RETAINED Requirements for admission to the accelerated business course include two semester courses in mathematics, two semester courses in economics, and the usual prerequisites in regard to scholastic record and general standing.
The revised Tuck curriculum will introduce a number of new courses directly related to the war, among them The Economic Impact of War, Government Contract Accounting, Financing Production During War, and Army and Navy Methods and Systems of Purchasing and Disbursing. It will stress courses in industrial management, production control and planning, cost accounting, personnel administration, statistics and industrial engineering, and will give less emphasis to such regular courses as marketing, advertising, sales management, retailing, banking and investments, although these subjects will still be available for students following special programs.
For a number of years the Tuck School has admitted from 75 to 95 members of the senior class to the first year of the business course. Under the new plan the School intends to continue its policy of restricted enrollment and will not admit over 40 to 50 more undergraduates than have been admitted in the past.
