Updated March 2026 The Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth is consistently ranked among the top MBA programs in the world – and one of the most distinctive in culture and community. With a class of roughly 290 students in a fully residential setting, Tuck is deliberately intimate – and builds its class accordingly, evaluating candidates on four criteria: Smart, Accomplished, Aware, and Encouraging. In this post, I break down what each of these criteria actually means for you