[9] Tuck's MBA program ties for 9th place with MIT for the highest average GMAT score of 722 for its entering class.

[12] Through a renewed friendship, Tucker enlisted the support of his former roommate from his undergraduate years at Dartmouth, Edward Tuck, who had since become a wealthy banker and philanthropist.

The new school's tuition fee cost $100 for the few students who enrolled in the first year; graduates of the two-year program received a Master of Commercial Science degree (MCS).

[11] Specifically, the first-years were required to take Modern History, Economics, Political Science, Sociology, Foreign Language, and English Composition and Speaking; second-year courses included Modern History and Diplomacy, Finance, Transportation, Insurance, Law, Municipal Administration, Demography and Social Institutions, Language, and Practice Organizations.

[12] Undergraduate Dartmouth professors taught most of the first-year courses at Tuck, while outside guest instructors and business-people, such as an export merchant, an attorney, an insurance company president, and an accountant, educated the second-year students.

"[12] While other business programs tended to offer specialized technical courses linked neither to the liberal arts tradition nor to the broader purposes of business, Tuck maintained itself as a school of general management in the broadest liberal sense, to which a study by the Carnegie Corporation observed, "The Tuck School probably went further than any other institution in the pre-war period in putting its work on a demanding intellectual level.

"[11][12] Students of the first class held their studies in the Hubbard House, located on North Main Street across the College Green.

[17] During this period of growth, Dartmouth president Ernest Martin Hopkins wrote often to Edward Tuck reflecting on the school's flourishing alumni and faculty.

Edward Tuck, going above merely granting his permission, wrote back in August 1928, "The success and growth of the school have gone far beyond our original expectations, and we have every reason to be proud of it.

Tuck donated 600 shares of Chase National Bank, which was sold for $567,766 a couple months before the Black Tuesday crash at the start of the Great Depression.

[20] Until the late 1950s and early 1960s, the Tuck School catered primarily to Dartmouth students, accepting undergraduates during their third year.

By securing grants from the Sloan Foundation, Hill also brought in additional faculty to the school by setting up funding for summer research.

He served as the founding chairman of the Council for Opportunity in Graduate Management Education and visited dozens of schools to recruit minority students to Tuck.

[25] Under Deans Richard West, who served from 1976 to 1983, and Colin Blaydon (1983–1990), the school's curriculum and faculty expanded extensively, and applications increased by one-third.

[12] Since the late 1980s, Tuck has continued to expand in student body and faculty size, and has seen the establishment of two new campus buildings as well as several research centers and non-degree business programs.

The Tuck School offers a single degree: the two-year, full-time Master of Business Administration (MBA).

[33] First-year MBA students at Tuck undertake a 32-week core curriculum in general management and a specialized First Year Project.

[36][37] The school stresses a collaborative and teamwork-based approach to learning, which it touts as one of its assets for "building the interpersonal skills required for business leadership.

[39] In the past, The MBA program has held a top-10 ranking in multiple publications, including U.S. News & World Report,[40] Bloomberg,[41] The Economist,[42] Forbes,[43] Business Insider,[44] and Vault.

[48] 95% of the Tuck MBA class of 2017 had jobs offers three months post graduation and 100% of those students found internships during the summer following the first year.

[57] As part of the larger institution, the Tuck School is ultimately administered by Dartmouth's President and Board of Trustees.

[60] The Tuck School is located on the campus of Dartmouth College, which is situated in the rural, Upper Valley New England town of Hanover, New Hampshire.

[94] Former faculty include industrial efficiency pioneer Frederick Winslow Taylor,[95] marketing professor Brian Wansink,[96] and Michael Jensen, who taught as a visiting scholar.