Tuck launches European Initiative
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - February 17, 2006
CONTACT: Kim Keating - 603-646-2733
HANOVER, N.H.—This spring, representatives from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth will travel to Europe to formally kick off the school's European Initiative. During March and April, members of Admissions and others on the Tuck team will visit cities including London, Paris, Barcelona, Sofia, Milan, Rome, and Lisbon, where they will meet with admitted students, top prospective students, Tuck alumni, and leading businesspeople in each region. The European Initiative was created to increase Tuck's presence and knowledge of its programs, faculty, students, and network throughout Europe. Dean Paul Danos will join the Tuck teams in four cities in April, where he will participate in meetings with admitted students, alumni, and press.
"Tuck has always had close ties with Europe," said Danos. "The founder of our school, Edward Tuck, lived in Europe with his wife, Julia, for more than 49 years. They received numerous honors for their contributions to France—Edward Tuck was awarded the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor, and named honorary Citizen of the Republic, and Julia received the Prix de Vertu of the Académie Française. Europe is an essential region of operation for a major global business school such as Tuck."
Currently, the Tuck student body is 30 percent international. Interest in the school from Europe has increased notably this year. Through the first three rounds of applications for the class of 2008, European applications rose approximately 25 percent, as compared with this time last year. As a whole, applications are up about 40 percent.
As part of the European Initiative Tuck will award scholarships to qualified candidates from Europe, and hopes to give between 10 and 12 scholarships to European students in the class of 2008. The Franco-American Commission in Paris will work with Tuck to identify promising scholarship candidates from France.
To reach the most qualified international candidates, Tuck is working closely with overseas education advisors, and is planning an event in May to bring international admissions consultants to campus to learn more about the school. European advisors will attend and hear from departments across the school—including Admissions, Financial Aid, the Career Development Office, and Alumni Services —about the programs and opportunities afforded by Tuck.
Current students involved in Tuck's Ambassador Program are also taking an active role in expanding Tuck's brand abroad. In December, students representing France, Italy, the Netherlands, and Spain met with prospective students and MBA-related organizations to introduce and answer questions about the school. Students on exchange in Paris and London also met with students interested in Tuck, and last fall, Tuck's United Kingdom Ambassadors worked with the Career Development Office to plan a careers trip to London, where they arranged for alumni to meet with more than a dozen current Tuck students. Working jointly with six other top U.S. business schools, visits were also arranged with 21 firms in the country, across industries.
Founded in 1900, Tuck is the first graduate school of management and consistently ranks among the top business schools worldwide. Information about the Tuck School is available at www.tuck.dartmouth.edu.
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