Enrollment Figures

THE official undergraduate enrollment of the College this fall is 2979 fulltime students, the largest total in Dartmouth's history and only a stone's throw from the figure of 3000 to which the College will grow in the 1960's, according to Trustee planning.

Undergraduate enrollment is 70 greater than last year and 50 ahead of the previous high mark set two years ago. It is made up of 805 freshmen, 761 sophomores, 712 juniors, 640 seniors, 56 men from the Classes of 1958 through 1961 registered as undergraduates, and five special students.

Two hundred full-time graduate students and 125 part-time students, all but three of them graduates, give the College a total enrollment of 3304, also a record. The graduate figure of 322 includes 45 students in departments of the College and 277 in the associated schools of medicine, engineering, and business administration.

Tuck School has the usual top enrollment among the associated schools, with 95 men in the first year and 75 in the second for a total of 170. In the first-year class, graduates outnumber undergraduates, 51 to 44, for a notable reversal at the business school.

The Medical School has enlarged its first-year class to 36, and also has 24 second-year students, 72 postdoctoral part-time students, and one special student, for a total of 133. Thayer School has 31 second-year students, and the Tuck-Thayer Program has thirteen men enrolled, seven undergraduates in the first year and six graduates in the second.

Among the freshmen and sophomores enrolled this year there is a marked increase of interest in the Army, Navy, and Air Force ROTC programs. A total of 323 freshmen, or 40% of the class, have voluntarily enrolled in the military units, compared with 274 or 34% of the freshman class last year. The sophomore figure is also up, 178 to 144. The ROTC total for the two upper classes, however, is down, 193 to 217. In all, 694 under graduates or 23% of the student body is enrolled in ROTC. The Army leads with 417 trainees, followed by the Navy with 168, and the Air Force with 109.