Dartmouth College
Founded 1769. Smallest Ivy, birthplace of BASIC and the 1956 AI workshop.
Overview
Eleazar Wheelock obtained a royal charter in 1769 to found the college in Hanover, New Hampshire, with a stated mission to educate Native American youth alongside English colonists. The 1819 Supreme Court case Dartmouth College v. Woodward, argued by alumnus Daniel Webster, protected private charters from state takeover and shaped American corporate law. Dartmouth hosted the 1956 summer workshop that launched artificial intelligence as a field, and John Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz created the BASIC programming language there in 1964. Its Tuck School, founded in 1900, was the first graduate school of management. A year-round quarter system includes a required sophomore summer term.
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