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Graduate Engineering Studies at Dartmouth

Join a dynamic community of leading researchers who will help you forge your own unique path to discovery, invention, and application. Our masters and doctoral degree programs employ an integrated approach to scholarship, leadership, and technology transfer that empowers students to engage in pioneering work to advance critical knowledge and drive solutions to the world's most critical challenges. 

The benefits of a Dartmouth graduate degree in engineering include developing the skills and the drive to innovate with impact. All graduate programs are highly collaborative, with opportunities to engage with faculty and students across Dartmouth, the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Dartmouth Cancer Center, and other affiliated programs. As you work toward becoming an expert in your field, you'll be supported by a culture that values and fosters:

  • Service to society through human-centered engineering
  • Pioneering research that drives invention and new application
  • An integrated approach to investigation, innovation, and technology transfer

Engineering Master's Degrees

MEng

Master of Engineering

Provides specialized depth in your field of choice through either full-time or part-time coursework.

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MEM

Master of Engineering Management

Combines graduate level engineering courses with management classes at Tuck School of Business.

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MS

Master of Science

Emphasizes engineering research, applied mathematics skills, and depth with breadth across disciplines.

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Engineering Doctoral Degrees

PhD

Doctor of Philosophy

Offers flexibility within and across research/program areas and prepares you for either a professional or academic position.

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PhD-I

PhD Innovation Program

Supplements the doctoral engineering curriculum with entrepreneurial studies—the first of its kind in the nation.

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PhD+MD

PhD + Doctor of Medicine

Combines a PhD in engineering sciences with an MD from The Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth.

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The Graduate Engineering Experience

“One of my projects was developing a tool to study climate change through measuring the changes in Arctic sea ice. It called on a combination of mechanical, electrical, and systems engineering. The systems part was key. The product emerged on the boundary between science and engineering.”

—Cameron Planck, PhD Th'20

Program Areas

Dartmouth offers a diversity of concentrations with collaborative synergies between engineering disciplines. Graduate students are expected to propose a plan of study that supports their interests on a path unconstrained by disciplinary boundaries. Both faculty and students draw from these multiple areas of expertise for maximum human-centered impact:

Entrepreneurship

At Dartmouth, where half of the tenure-track engineering faculty have started companies, we are working to address the nation's growing need for people with both technical and entrepreneurial expertise. As part of that effort, you may:

  • Become a PhD Innovation Program Fellow
  • Get involved with a faculty start-up
  • Gain training through the Magnuson Center for Entrepreneurship
  • Add yours to the list of patent applications filed by PhD candidates
  • Start your own company

Human-Centered Design

The principles of design thinking are integrated throughout the Human-Centered Design curriculum. Students come away with the skills to assess human nature, needs, habits, desires, abilities, and cultures and incorporate them into technological design.

"Students who become really good at design become experts at a process that they can apply to anything, from designing medical devices to improving the lives of infants in their car seats. The same process can be applied, no matter what the problem is.”


—Professor Peter Robbie

Leadership

While acquiring technical depth in your area, you'll also hone your leadership skills. You'll practice different kinds of writing, learn to give constructive criticism, and become an experienced presenter. The opportunities go beyond a typical advanced degree in engineering. For example, you might:

  • Create or redesign a course with a professor
  • Start a journal or club in your research area
  • Take classes in other departments

Every experience you have beyond your chosen field of expertise prepares you to take the lead in whatever path you choose.

"In our medical and biomedical engineering, just to pick one area, we have the huge advantage to work closely with a teaching hospital. We can work directly with clinicians. We can test patients. That ability doesn't exist in the same way at other places."

—Professor Doug Van Citters

Collaboration

Dartmouth encourages and facilitates collaboration to widen your horizon even further. Partners for collaboration include:

Help & Support

The road to an engineering degree can sometimes feel rocky when facing new challenges. A variety of resources help foster Dartmouth's culture of cooperation and support.

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Collaborative Programs

Dartmouth prides itself on facilitating collaboration both on and off-campus. Teamwork and cross-pollination occur between peers, colleagues, schools, centers, institutions, and industry.

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Graduate Degree Outcomes

Most MEM graduates enter directly into full-time positions; 20–40% of MS graduates continue on to pursue a PhD and the remaining secure employment; PhD recipients enter into professorships (~15%), research positions (50–60%), or entrepreneurship or industry (~30%).

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Graduate Student Life & Housing

Dartmouth owns and manages over 500 on- and off-campus rental housing units within two miles of campus. Accommodations range from studio apartments to single-family homes.

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Scholarship, Fellowship & Grant Programs

Endowed named scholarships and fellowships, established through the generosity of alumni/ae, friends, foundations, and corporations, are awarded to engineering students with financial need who have demonstrated academic ability and show promise of contributing to the engineering profession.

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