New Hampshire

State of Hampshire

ORIGIN OF STATE NAME: Named for the English county of Hampshire.

NICKNAME: The Granite State.

CAPITAL: Concord.

ENTERED UNION: 21 June 1788 (9th).

SONG: "Old New Hampshire."

MOTTO: Live Free or Die.

FLAG: The state seal, surrounded by laurel leaves with nine stars interspersed, is centered on a blue field.

OFFICIAL SEAL: In the center is a broadside view of the frigate Raleigh; in the left foreground is a granite boulder; in the background is a rising sun. A laurel wreath and the words "Seal of the State of New Hampshire 1776" surround the whole.

BIRD: Purple finch.

FLOWER: Purple lilac.

TREE: White birch.

GEM: Smoky quartz.

LEGAL HOLIDAYS: New Year's Day, 1 January; Civil Rights Day and Birthday of Martin Luther King Jr., 3rd Monday in January; Presidents' Day, 3rd Monday in February; Memorial Day, last Monday in May; Independence Day, 4 July; Labor Day, 1st Monday in September; Columbus Day, 2nd Monday in October; Election Day, Tuesday following 1st Monday in November in even-numbered years; Veterans' Day, 11 November; Thanksgiving Day, 4th Thursday in November plus the day after; Christmas Day, 25 December.

TIME: 7 AM EST = noon GMT.

LOCATION, SIZE, AND EXTENT

Situated in New England in the northeastern United States, New Hampshire ranks 44th in size among the 50 states. The total area of New Hampshire is 9,279 sq mi (24,033 sq km), comprising 8,993 sq mi (23,292 sq km) of land and 286 sq mi (741 sq km) of inland water. The state has a maximum extension of 93 mi (150 km) e-w and 180 mi (290 km) n-s. New Hampshire is shaped roughly like a right triangle, with the line from the far n to the extreme sw forming the hypotenuse.

New Hampshire is bordered on the n by the Canadian province of Quebec; on the e by Maine (with part of the line formed by the Piscataqua and Salmon Falls rivers) and the Atlantic Ocean; on the s by Massachusetts; and on the w by Vermont (following the west bank of the Connecticut River) and Quebec (with the line formed by Halls Stream).

The three southernmost Isles of Shoals lying in the Atlantic belong to New Hampshire. The state's total boundary line is 555 mi (893 km). Its geographic center lies in Belknap County, 3 mi (5 km) e of Ashland.

TOPOGRAPHY

The major regions of New Hampshire are the coastal lowland in the southeast; the New England Uplands, covering most of the south and west; and the White Mountains (part of the Appalachian chain) in the north, including Mt. Washington, at 6,288 ft (1,918 m), the highest peak in the northeastern United States. With a mean elevation of about 1,000 ft (305 m), New Hampshire is generally hilly, rocky, and in many areas densely wooded.

There are some 1,300 lakes and ponds, of which the largest is Lake Winnipesaukee, covering 70 sq mi (181 sq km). The principal rivers are the Connecticut (forming the border with Vermont), Merrimack, Salmon Falls, Piscataqua, Saco, and Androscoggin. Near the coast are the nine rocky Isles of Shoals, three of which belong to New Hampshire. About 10% of the state land area is covered by wetlands. Sea level at the Atlantic Ocean is the lowest elevation of the state.

CLIMATE

New Hampshire has a changeable climate, with wide variations in daily and seasonal temperatures. Summers are short and cool, winters long and cold. Concord has an average yearly temperature of 46°f (7°c), ranging from 20°f (−6°c) in January to 70°f (21°c) in July. The record low temperature, −47°f (−44°c), was set at Mt. Washington on 29 January 1934; the all-time high, 106°f (41°c) at Nashua, 4 July 1911. Annual precipitation at Concord averages 36.7 in (93 cm); the average snowfall in Concord is 63.2 in (160 cm) a year, with more than 100 in (254 cm) yearly in the mountains. The strongest wind ever recorded, other than during a tornado—231 mi/h (372 km/h)—occurred on Mt. Washington on 12 April 1934.

FLORA AND FAUNA

Well forested, New Hampshire supports an abundance of elm, maple, beech, oak, pine, hemlock, and fir trees. Among wild flowers, several orchids are considered rare. Three New Hampshire plant species were listed as threatened or endangered in 2006; the small whorled pogonia was threatened and Jesup's milk-vetch and Northeastern bulrush were endangered.

Among native New Hampshire mammals are the white-tailed deer, muskrat, beaver, porcupine, and snowshoe hare. Nine animal species (vertebrates and invertebrates) were listed by the US Fish and Wildlife Service as threatened or endangered in 2006, including the Karner blue butterfly, bald eagle, dwarf wedgemussel, finback whale, and leatherback sea turtle.

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION

State agencies concerned with environmental protection include the Fish and Game Department, the Department of Resources and Economic Development (DRED), and the Department of Environmental Services (DES). DRED oversees the state's forests, lands and parks and, in the late 1980s, DRED was the lead state agency in the acquisition and long-term protection of open space. DES was created in 1987, consolidating several preexisting commissions and boards into four divisions which protect the environmental quality of air, groundwater, the state's surface waters, and solid waste. In the 1990s, DES focused on such issues as ground-level ozone, landfill closures, groundwater remediation and protection of lakes, rivers, and other wetlands in New Hampshire. In 2003, 5.9 million lb of toxic chemicals were released in the state. Also in 2003, New Hampshire had 91 hazardous waste sites listed in the US Environment Protection Agency (EPA) database, 20 of which were on the National Priorities List as of 2006, including Pease Air Force Base and the Mottolo Pig Farm in Raymond. In 2005, the EPA spent over $10 million through the Superfund program for the cleanup of hazardous waste sites in the state. The same year, federal EPA grants awarded to the state included $13 million for the clean water state revolving fund and $8.2 million for the drinking water state revolving fund.

POPULATION

New Hampshire ranked 41st in population in the United States with an estimated total of 1,309,940 in 2005, an increase of 6% since 2000. Between 1990 and 2000, New Hampshire's population grew from 1,109,252 to 1,235,786, an increase of 11.4%. The population is projected to reach 1.45 million by 2015 and 1.58 million by 2025. The population density in 2004 was 144.9 persons per sq mi. In 2004, the median age was 39.1. Persons under 18 years old accounted for 23.5% of the population while 12.1% was age 65 or older.

In 2004, Manchester, the largest city, had an estimated population of 109,310. The Manchester-Nashua metropolitan area had an estimated population of 398,574. In 2003, the capital city of Concord had a population of 41,823

ETHNIC GROUPS

In 2000, a total of 223,026 New Hampshirites claimed English ancestry. Those claiming French ancestry numbered 180,947, and Irish 240,804. There are also about 127,153 French Canadians. In 2000, there were 9,035 black Americans, 15,931 Asians, 371 Pacific Islanders, and 2,964 Native Americans living in New Hampshire. In the same year, there were 20,489 residents of Hispanic origin, or 1.7% of the total population. The foreign-born population numbered 54,154, or 4.4% of the total population, in 2000.

In 2004, 2.1% of the population was Hispanic or Latino, 1.7% Asian, 0.9% black, and 0.2% American Indian or Alaskan Native; 0.9% of the population reported origin of two or more races.

LANGUAGES

Some place-names, such as Ossipee, Mascoma, and Chocorua, preserve the memory of the Pennacook and Abnaki Algonkian tribes living in the area before white settlement.

New Hampshire speech is essentially Northern, with the special features marking eastern New England, especially the loss of the final /r/, as in park and father, and /yu/ in tube and new. Raspberries sounds like /rawzberries/, a wishbone is a luckybone, gutters are eavespouts, and cows are summoned by "Loo!" Canadian French is heard in the northern region.

In 2000, 91.7% of all state residents aged five and above—a total of 935,825—spoke only English at home.

The following table gives selected statistics from the 2000 Census for language spoken at home by persons five years old and over. The category "Other Indo-European languages" includes Albanian, Gaelic, Lithuanian, and Rumanian. The category "Other Asian languages" includes Dravidian languages, Malayalam, Telugu, Tamil, and Turkish.

RELIGIONS

The first settlers of New Hampshire were Separatists, precursors of the modern Congregationalists (United Church of Christ) and their first church was probably built around 1633. The first Episcopal church was built in 1638 and the first Quaker meetinghouse in 1701; Presbyterians, Baptists, and Methodists built churches later in the 18th century. The state remained almost entirely Protestant until the second half of the 19th century, when Roman Catholics (French Canadian, Irish, and Italian) began arriving in significant numbers, along with some Greek and Russian Orthodox Christians.

In 2004, Roman Catholics numbered at about 327,353 adherents. In 2005, there were 25,794 members of the United Church of Christ. Other leading Protestant denominations (with 2000 membership data) are the United Methodist Church, 18,927; the American Baptist Churches-USA, 16,359; and the Episcopal Church, 16,148. There were about 10,020 Jews and 3,782 Muslims throughout the state in 2000. A few small groups have reported considerable growth since 1990. These include the Salvation Army, which went from 763 members in 1990 to 2,651 members in 2000. The International Church of the Foursquare Gospel grew from 51 adherents in 1990 to 1,203 in 2000 and the Christian Churches and Churches of Christ reported a membership of 1,503 in 2000, up from 396 in 1990.

TRANSPORTATION

New Hampshire's first railroad, between Nashua and Lowell, Massachusetts, was chartered in 1835 and opened in 1838. Two years later, Exeter and Boston were linked by rail. The state had more than 1,200 mi (1,900 km) of track in 1920, but by 2003, the total route mileage in New Hampshire shrunk to 473 mi (761 km). There were no Class I railroads operating in the state as of that year. As of 2006, Amtrak provided service to three stations in New Hampshire via its Boston to Portland Downeaster train

In 2003, the state had a total of 15,628 mi (25,161 km) of roads. The main north-south highway is I-93. As of 2004, there were some 668,000 automobiles, around 491,000 trucks of all types, about 66,000 motorcycles, and some 1,000 buses registered in the state, along with 985,775 licensed drivers. In 2005, New Hampshire had a total of 127 public and private-use aviation-related facilities. This included 51 airports, 67 heliports, and nine seaplane bases. The state's main airport is Manchester Municipal Airport. In 2004, the airport had 1,973,142 enplanements.

Portsmouth is the state's primary port. In 2004, the Portsmouth handled 4.794 million tons of cargo. For that same year, New Hampshire had only eight mi (12 km) of navigable inland waterways. In 2003, total waterborne shipments totaled 4.971 million tons.

HISTORY

The land called New Hampshire has supported a human population for at least 10,000 years. Prior to European settlement, Indian tribes of the Algonkian language group lived in the region. During the 17th century, most of New Hampshire's Indians, called Pennacook, were organized in a loose confederation centered along the Merrimack Valley.

The coast of New England was explored by Dutch, English, and French navigators throughout the 16th century. Samuel de Champlain prepared the first accurate map of the New England coast in 1604, and Captain John Smith explored the Isles of Shoals in 1614. By this time, numerous English fishermen were summering on New England's coastal banks, using the Isles of Shoals for temporary shelter and to dry their catch.

The first English settlement was established along the Piscataqua River in 1623. From 1643 to 1680, New Hampshire was a province of Massachusetts, and the boundary between them was not settled until 1740. During the 18th century, as settlers moved up the Merrimack and Connecticut river valleys, they came into conflict with the Indians. By 1760, however, the Pennacook had been expelled from the region.

Throughout the provincial period, people in New Hampshire made their living through fishing, farming, cutting and sawing timber, shipbuilding, and coastal and overseas trade. By the first quarter of the 18th century, Portsmouth, the provincial capital, had become a thriving commercial port. New Hampshire's terrain worked against Portsmouth's commercial interests, however, by dictating that roads (and later railroads) run in a north-south direction—making Boston, and not Portsmouth, New England's primary trading center. During the Revolutionary War, extensive preparations were made to protect the harbor from a British attack that never came. Although nearly 18,500 New Hampshire men enlisted in the war, no battle was fought within its boundaries. New Hampshire was the first of the original 13 colonies to establish an independent government—on 5 January 1776, six months before the Declaration of Independence.

During the 19th century, as overseas trade became less important to the New Hampshire economy, textile mills were built, principally along the Merrimack River. By midcentury, the Merrimack Valley had become the social, political, and economic center of the state. So great was the demand for workers in these mills that immigrant labor was imported during the 1850s; a decade later, French Canadian workers began pouring south from Quebec.

Although industry thrived, agriculture did not; New Hampshire hill farms could not compete against Midwestern farms. The population in farm towns dropped, leaving a maze of stone walls, cellar holes, and new forests on the hillsides. The people who remained began to cluster in small village centers.

World War I, however, marked a turning point for New Hampshire industry. As wartime demand fell off, the state's old textile mills were unable to compete with newer cotton mills in the South, and New Hampshire's mill towns became as depressed as its farm towns; only in the north, the center for logging and paper manufacturing, did state residents continue to enjoy moderate prosperity. Industrial towns in the southern counties responded to the decline in textile manufacture by making other items, particularly shoes, but the collapse of the state's railroad network spelled further trouble for the slumping economy. The growth of tourism aided the rural areas primarily, as old farms became spacious vacation homes for "summer people," who in some cases paid the bulk of local property taxes.

During the 1960s, New Hampshire's economic decline began to reverse, except in agriculture. In the 1970s and early 1980s, growth in the state's northern counties remained modest, but the combination of Boston's urban sprawl, interstate highway construction, and low state taxes encouraged people and industry—notably high-technology businesses—to move into southern New Hampshire. The state's population doubled between 1960 and 1988, from 606,921 to 1.1 million. Most of the arrivals were younger, more affluent, and better educated than the natives. The newcomers shared the fiscally conservative views of those born in New Hampshire but tended to be more liberal on social questions such as gun control and abortion. The rise in population strained government services, prompted an increase in local taxes, and provoked concern over the state's vanishing open spaces. The state's population has held fairly steady since 1988, with an estimated 1.3 million people in 2004.

Like other New England states, New Hampshire was hard hit by the recession of the early 1990s, with the unemployment rate rising to 10% by 1992. But by the mid-1990s a recovery was underway, and about 30,000 of the more than 60,000 jobs lost during the recession had been regained. By 1999 the state enjoyed the second-lowest unemployment rate in the nation—just 2.7%. Population growth in the state threatened to do away with the annual town meeting. A study released in 2000 showed that more towns had replaced the celebrated tradition with the official ballot form of governance.

In 2000, New Hampshire Chief Justice David Brock faced an unprecedented trial on charges he influenced a lower-court judge about a powerful state senator's case, allowed a Supreme Court colleague to have a say in the handling of his own divorce, permitted disqualified justices to participate in cases, and lied to a house committee investigating the court. Brock was the first New Hampshire official impeached in 210 years and his trial was to be the first in the state's history. The last impeachment of a New Hampshire official was in 1790; Supreme Court Justice Woodbury Langdon resigned before he was tried. Brock was acquitted by the New Hampshire Senate in October 2000.

Like other New England states in the early 2000s, New Hampshire faced record-breaking budget deficits. Republican Governor Craig Benson vetoed a 2003 two-year budget passed by the state legislature, saying it would increase the deficit and raise taxes. Democrat John Lynch, who was inaugurated as New Hampshire's governor in January 2005 after defeating Benson in the November 2004 election, put his attention to improving education, reducing health care costs, protecting the environment, and creating good jobs. In his first few months in office he worked with the legislature to pass legislation stabilizing health care costs for small businesses; eliminating a projected $300 million budget deficit; and making progress on education funding.

STATE GOVERNMENT

New Hampshire's constitution, adopted in 1784 and extensively revised in 1792, is the second-oldest state-governing document still in effect. Every 10 years, the people vote on the question of calling a convention to revise it; proposed revisions must then be approved by two-thirds of the voters at a referendum. Amendments may also be placed on the ballot by a three-fifths vote of both houses of the state legislature. If placed on the ballot, an amendment must be approved by two-thirds of the voters on the amendment in order to be ratified. The constitution was amended 143 times by January 2005.

The state legislature, called the General Court, consists of a 24-member Senate and a 400-seat House of Representatives, larger than that of any other state. Legislative sessions begin each January and are limited to 45 legislative days. Special sessions, indirectly limited to 15 legislative days, may be called by a two-thirds vote of the members of each house. Senators must be at least 30 years old, representatives 18. The state residency requirement for senators is a minimum of seven years and for representatives a minimum of two. Legislators, who must reside in their districts, serve two-year terms, for which they were paid $200 ($100 per year) as of 2004, unchanged from 1999.

The only executive elected statewide is the governor, who serves a two-year term and is assisted by a five-member executive council, elected for two years by district. As of 2006, New Hampshire and Vermont were the only two states whose governors served two-year terms. The council must approve all administrative and judicial appointments. The secretary of state and state treasurer are elected by the legislature. The governor must be at least 30 years old and must have been a state resident for seven years before election. As of December 2004, the governor's salary was $96,060.

A bill becomes law if signed by the governor, if passed by the legislature and left unsigned by the governor for five days whether or not the legislature is in or out of session, or if passed over a gubernatorial veto by two-thirds of the legislators present in each house. A voter must be at least 18 years old, a US citizen, and must have a permanent established domicile in the state of New Hampshire. Restrictions apply to convicted felons.

POLITICAL PARTIES

New Hampshire has almost always gone with the Republican presidential nominee in recent decades, but the Democratic and Republican parties were much more evenly balanced in local and state elections. New Hampshire's quadrennial presidential preference primary, the second state primary of the campaign season

after Iowa, accords to New Hampshirites a degree of national political influence and a claim on media attention far out of proportion to their numbers. In the 1992 presidential election, New Hampshire voters defied their tradition and chose Democrat Bill Clinton over Republican incumbent George Bush by a scant 6,556 votes. Clinton won the state again in 1996. In the 2000 presidential election, Republican George W. Bush received 48% of the vote to Democrat Al Gore's 47%; Green Party candidate Ralph Nader garnered 4% of the vote. In 2004, Bush won 40.3% to Democratic challenger John Kerry's 49.0%. In 2004, there were 690,000 registered voters. In 1998, 27% of registered voters were Democratic, 36% Republican, and 36% unaffiliated or members of other parties. The state had four electoral votes in the 2004 presidential election.

As of 2005, both of New Hampshire's senators, John Sununu (elected in 2002) and Judd Gregg (reelected in 2004), were Republicans. Following the 2004 election, both House seats were held by Republicans. In 2002, Republican Craig Benson was elected governor; he was defeated by Democrat John Lynch in 2004. The New Hampshire state Senate in mid-2005 had 16 Republicans and 8 Democrats, and the state House had 253 Republicans and 147 Democrats.

LOCAL GOVERNMENT

As of 2005, New Hampshire has 10 counties, each governed by three commissioners. Other elected county officials include the sheriff, attorney, treasurer, registrar of deeds, and registrar of probate.

New Hampshire also had 13 municipal governments in 2005, as well as 178 public school districts, and 148 special districts. In 2002, there were 221 townships. Most municipalities have elected mayors and councils. Some municipal charters provide for the council-manager or commission system of government. The basic unit of town government is the traditional town meeting, held once a year, when selectmen and other local officials are chosen.

In 2005, local government accounted for about 49,709 full-time (or equivalent) employment positions.

STATE SERVICES

To address the continuing threat of terrorism and to work with the federal Department of Homeland Security, homeland security in New Hampshire operates under the authority of the governor; the emergency management director is designated as the state homeland security advisor.

The Department of Education, governed by the seven-member State Board of Education (which appoints an education commissioner), has primary responsibility for public instruction. The Department of Transportation and the Division of Ports and Harbors share transport responsibilities, while the Department of Health and Human Services oversees public health and mental health and welfare. Executive branch departments include the departments of agriculture, markets, and food; cultural resources; fish and game; justice; revenue administration; and parks and recreation. Authorities, boards, and commissions include the Liquor Commission and the Sweepstakes Commission.

JUDICIAL SYSTEM

All judges in New Hampshire are appointed by the governor, subject to confirmation by the executive council. Appointments are to age 70, with retirement compulsory at that time. The state's highest court, the Supreme Court, consists of a chief justice and four associate justices. The main trial court is the Superior Court for which there were 28 judges in 1999.

As of 31 December 2004, a total of 2,448 prisoners were held in New Hampshire's state and federal prisons, an increase from 2,434 of 0.6% from the previous year. As of year-end 2004, a total of 119 inmates were female, up from 117 or 1.7% from the year before. Among sentenced prisoners (one year or more), New Hampshire had an incarceration rate of 187 per 100,000 population in 2004.

According to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, New Hampshire in 2004, had a violent crime rate (murder/nonnegligent manslaughter; forcible rape; robbery; aggravated assault) of 167 reported incidents per 100,000 population, or a total of 2,170 reported incidents. Crimes against property (burglary; larceny/theft; and motor vehicle theft) in that same year totaled 26,511 reported incidents or 2,040.1 reported incidents per 100,000 people. New Hampshire has a death penalty, which consists of lethal injection or hanging, the latter of which is used only if lethal injection cannot be used. Since 1930, New Hampshire has executed only one person and as of 1 January 2006 no prisoners were under sentence of death in the state. For the period 1976 through 5 May 2006, there have been no executions carried out by the state.

In 2003, New Hampshire spent $45,536,983 on homeland security, an average of $36 per state resident.

ARMED FORCES

In 2004, there were 218 active-duty military personnel and 1,059 civilian personnel stationed in New Hampshire. The principal military installation is the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard. Firms in the state received nearly $715 million in defense contract awards in 2004, and defense payroll outlays were $384 million.

As of 2003, veterans living in New Hampshire numbered 131,074, of whom 16,623 were veterans of World War II; 14,381, the Korean conflict; 41,627, the Vietnam era; and 16,940 served during the Gulf War. For the fiscal year 2004, total Veterans Affairs expenditures in New Hampshire amounted to more than $325 million.

As of 31 October 2004, the New Hampshire State Police employed 267 full-time sworn officers.

MIGRATION

From the time of the first European settlement until the middle of the 19th century, the population of New Hampshire was primarily of British origin. Subsequently, immigrants from Quebec and from Ireland, Italy, and other countries began arriving in significant numbers. New Hampshire's population growth since 1960 has been fueled by migrants from other states. The net gain from migration was 74,000 from 1985 to 1990. Between 1990 and 1998, New Hampshire had net gains of 19,000 in domestic migration and 6,000 in international migration. In 1998, the state admitted 1,010 foreign immigrants. Between 1990 and 1998, the state's overall population increased 6.8%. In the period 2000–05, net international migration was 11,107 and net internal migration was 40,861, for a net gain of 51,968 people.

INTERGOVERNMENTAL COOPERATION

New Hampshire participates in the American and Canadian French Cultural Exchange Commission, Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission, Connecticut River Valley Flood Control Compact, Maine-New Hampshire Interstate School Compact, Northeastern Forest Fire Protection Compact, and various New England regional compacts (including compacts on radiological health protection, higher education, corrections, police, trucking fees and permits, water pollution control, sewage and garbage disposal, fire protection, and the lotto). Federal grants to New Hampshire totaled $1.243 billion in fiscal year 2005, an estimated $1.253 billion in fiscal year 2006, and an estimated $1.271 billion in fiscal year 2007.

ECONOMY

New Hampshire is one of the most industrialized states in the United States, ranking well above the national median in proportion of labor force employed in manufacturing and in value added by manufacture. Between 1977 and 1982, manufacturing employment rose 13%, to 107,500, as many high-technology firms moved into the southern portion of the state. Since World War II, tourism has been one of the state's fastest-growing sources of income. Coming into the 21st century, the state's economy was booming, posting annual growth rates of 8.2% in 1998, 7% in 1999, and 9.3% in 2000. It was clearly headed for a correction, and in the national recession and slowdown of 2001 it was one of the few states that experienced a contraction for the year, albeit a small 0.4% contraction. Due to the large growth of information technology (IT) related jobs in southern New Hampshire in the 1990s, this was the region of New England that saw the greatest fall in personal income between mid-2000 and mid-2002.

New Hampshire's gross state product (GSP) in 2004 was $51.871 billion of which the real estate sector accounted for the largest share at $7.232 billion or 13.9% of GSP, followed by manufacturing (durable and nondurable goods) at $6.47 billion (12.4% of GSP), and healthcare and social assistance at $4.195 billion (8% of GSP). In that same year, there were an estimated 133,052 small businesses in New Hampshire. Of the 40,151 businesses that had employees, an estimated total of 38,820 or 96.7% were small companies. An estimated 4,865 new businesses were established in the state in 2004, up 4.6% from the year before. Business terminations that same year came to 5,401, up 17.5% from 2003. There were 158 business bankruptcies in 2004, down 11.2% from the previous year. In 2005, the state's personal bankruptcy (Chapter 7 and Chapter 13) filing rate was 333 filings per 100,000 people, ranking New Hampshire as the 47th highest in the nation.

INCOME

In 2005, New Hampshire had a gross state product (GSP) of $56 billion which accounted for 0.4% of the nation's gross domestic product and placed the state at number 39 in highest GSP among the 50 states and the District of Columbia.

According to the Bureau of Economic Analysis, in 2004 New Hampshire had a per capita personal income (PCPI) of $36,616. This ranked seventh in the United States and was 111% of the national average of $33,050. The 1994–2004 average annual growth rate of PCPI was 4.5%. New Hampshire had a total personal income (TPI) of $47,569,847,000, which ranked 38th in the United States and reflected an increase of 7.1% from 2003. The 1994–2004 average annual growth rate of TPI was 5.8%. Earnings of persons employed in New Hampshire increased from $32,481,694,000 in 2003 to $34,921,009,000 in 2004, an increase of 7.5%. The 2003–04 national change was 6.3%.

The US Census Bureau reports that the three-year average median household income for 2002–04 in 2004 dollars was $57,352 compared to a national average of $44,473. During the same period an estimated 5.7% of the population was below the poverty line as compared to 12.4% nationwide.

LABOR

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), in April 2006 the seasonally adjusted civilian labor force in New Hampshire numbered 735,300 with approximately 24,700 workers unemployed, yielding an unemployment rate of 3.4%, compared to the national average of 4.7% for the same period. Preliminary data for the same period placed nonfarm employment at 642,500. Since the beginning of the BLS data series in 1976, the highest unemployment rate recorded in New Hampshire was 7.7% in June 1982. The historical low was 1.9% in April 1987. Preliminary nonfarm employment data by occupation for April 2006 showed that approximately 4.8% of the labor force was employed in construction; 12% in manufacturing; 22.1% in trade, transportation, and public utilities; 6.3% in financial activities; 9.5% in professional and business services; 15.7% in education and health services; 9.9% in leisure and hospitality services; and 13.9% in government.

The US Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that in 2005, a total of 65,000 of New Hampshire's 627,000 employed wage and salary workers were formal members of a union. This represented 10.4% of those so employed, up from 9.9% in 2004, but still below the national average of 12%. Overall in 2005, a total of 72,000 workers (11.5%) in New Hampshire were covered by a union or employee association contract, which includes those workers who reported no union affiliation. New Hampshire is one of 28 states that does not have a right-to-work law.

As of 1 March 2006, New Hampshire had a state-mandated minimum wage rate of $5.15 per hour. In 2004, women in the state accounted for 46.7% of the employed civilian labor force.

AGRICULTURE

Only Rhode Island and Alaska generate less income from farming than New Hampshire. Farm income in 2005 was $168 million, 56% of which was in crops.

In 2004, there were about 3,400 farms occupying about 450,000 acres (182,000 hectares). Leading crops and their output in 2004 were hay, 105,000 tons, and commercial apples, 31 million lb (14 million kg).

ANIMAL HUSBANDRY

Dairy and poultry products are the mainstays of New Hampshire's agriculture. In 2003, the state had 16,000 milk cows, with a total milk yield of 305 million lb (139 million kg). Poultry items included 1,183,000 lb (538,000 kg) of chickens, sold for $28,000; 132,000 lb (60,000 kg) of turkey, valued at $224,000, and 43 million eggs, valued at $3.2 million.

FISHING

New Hampshire's commercial catch in 2004 consisted of 21.9 million lb (10 million kg), worth $8.8 million. Most of the catch includes cod and lobster. In 2003, the state had 3 processing and 20 wholesale plants with about 497 employees. The commercial fleet in 2001 had about 580 boats and vessels. The state sponsors six hatcheries. The Nashua National Fish Hatchery is also located in the state. In 2004, the state issued 143,835 sport fishing licenses.

FORESTRY

New Hampshire had 4,824,000 acres (1,952,000 hectares) of forestland in 2004, of which 4,503,000 acres (1,822,000 hectares) were considered suitable for commercial use. Of that total, 83% was privately owned. Forests cover about 84% of New Hampshire. Lumber production in 2004 was 232 million board feet, 72% softwood.

MINING

According to preliminary data from the US Geological Survey (USGS), the estimated value of nonfuel mineral production by New Hampshire in 2003 was $63.9 million, a decrease from 2002 of about 3%.

By value, according to the preliminary data for 2003, construction sand and gravel was the state's leading nonfuel mineral commodity, accounting for around 69% of all nonfuel mineral production. In second place was crushed stone.

Preliminary data for 2003 showed production of construction sand and gravel totaling 9.1 million metric tons, with a value of $44.1 million, while crushed stone output that year totaled 3.89 million metric tons, and a value of $19.8 million. New Hampshire in 2003 was also a producer of dimension granite, and gem stones which were collected by hobbyists. Sand and gravel are mined in every county, and dimension granite is quarried in Hillsborough, Merrimack, and Coos counties.

ENERGY AND POWER

As of 2003, new Hampshire had 20 electrical power service providers, of which five were publicly owned and one was a cooperative. Of the remainder, four were investor owned, four were owners of independent generators that sold directly to customers, four were generation-only suppliers and two were delivery-only providers. As of that same year there were 661,773 retail customers. Of that total, 576,788 received their power from investor-owned service providers. The state's lone cooperative accounted for 73,727 customers, while publicly owned providers had 11,147 customers. There were five independent generator or "facility" customers, while generation-only suppliers had 106 customers. There was no data on the number of delivery-only customers.

Total net summer generating capability by the state's electrical generating plants in 2003 stood at 4.244 million kW, with total production that same year at 21.597 billion kWh. Of the total amount generated, 28.9% came from electric utilities, with the remaining 71.1% coming from independent producers and combined heat and power service providers. The largest portion of all electric power generated, 9.276 billion kWh (43%), came from nuclear power, with natural gas fired plants in second place at 4.165 billion kWh (19.3%) and coal-fired plants in third at 3.923 billion kWh (18.2%). Other renewable power sources accounted for 4% of all power generated, with hydroelectric at 6.2% and petroleum fired plants at 9.5%.

In 1990, the controversial nuclear power plant at Seabrook, built by Public Service Co. of New Hampshire, began operating. Originally planned as a two-reactor, 2,300-Mw facility, Seabrook was scaled back to one 1,150 MW reactor whose cost was about five times the original $1 billion two-reactor estimate. As of 2003, the plant had a generating capability of 1,159 MW and was the largest reactor in New England.

New Hampshire has no refineries, nor any proven reserves or production of crude oil and natural gas.

INDUSTRY

During the provincial era, shipbuilding was New Hampshire's major industry. By 1870, cotton and woolen mills, concentrated in the southeast, employed about one-third of the labor force and accounted for roughly half the value of all manufactures.

According to the US Census Bureau's Annual Survey of Manufactures (ASM) for 2004, New Hampshire's manufacturing sector covered some 16 product subsectors. The shipment value of all products manufactured in the state that same year was $15.439 billion. Of that total, computer and electronic product manufacturing accounted for the largest share at $3.982 billion. It was followed by machinery manufacturing at $1.867 billion; fabricated metal product manufacturing at $1.627 billion; miscellaneous manufacturing at $1.017 billion; and electrical equipment, appliance and component manufacturing at $983.270 million.

In 2004, a total of 72,498 people in New Hampshire were employed in the state's manufacturing sector, according to the ASM. Of that total, 452,589 were actual production workers. In terms of total employment, the computer and electronic product manufacturing industry accounted for the largest portion of all manufacturing employees at 14,068, with 6,127 actual production workers. It was followed by fabricated metal product manufacturing at 10,776 employees (8,023 actual production workers); machinery manufacturing at 8,534 employees (4,497 actual production workers); miscellaneous manufacturing at 5,307 employees (2,997 actual production workers); and plastics and rubber products manufacturing with 4,555 employees (3,543 actual production workers).

ASM data for 2004 showed that New Hampshire's manufacturing sector paid $3.332 billion in wages. Of that amount, the computer and electronic product manufacturing sector accounted for the largest share at $863.134 million. It was followed by fabricated metal product manufacturing at $436.288 million; machinery manufacturing at $430.462 million; miscellaneous manufacturing at $255.064 million; and electrical equipment, appliance and component manufacturing at $175.557 million.

COMMERCE

According to the 2002 Census of Wholesale Trade, New Hampshire's wholesale trade sector had sales that year totaling $13.7 billion from 2,004 establishments. Wholesalers of durable goods accounted for 1,326 establishments, followed by nondurable goods wholesalers at 508 and electronic markets, agents, and brokers accounting for 170 establishments. Sales by durable goods wholesalers in 2002 totaled $6.6 billion, while wholesalers of nondurable goods saw sales of $5.4 billion. Electronic markets, agents, and brokers in the wholesale trade industry had sales of $1.5 billion.

In the 2002 Census of Retail Trade, New Hampshire was listed as having 6,702 retail establishments with sales of $20.8 billion. The leading types of retail businesses by number of establishments were: miscellaneous store retailers (839); motor vehicle and motor vehicle parts dealers (822); clothing and clothing accessories stores (806); and food and beverage stores (752). In terms of sales, motor vehicle and motor vehicle parts dealers accounted for the largest share of retail sales at $5.3 billion, followed by food and beverage stores at $3.3 billion; general merchandise stores at $2.8 billion; nonstore retailers at $1.85 billion; and building material/garden equipment and supplies dealers $1.80 billion. A total of 93,804 people were employed by the retail sector in New Hampshire that year.

Foreign exports of goods originating in New Hampshire totaled $2.5 billion in 2005.

CONSUMER PROTECTION

Consumer protection issues are handled by the Consumer Protection and Antitrust Bureau, which is under the jurisdiction of the state of New Hampshire's Department of Justice. Specific legal action however, is handled by the state's Attorney General's Office, which is also under the state's Department of Justice.

When dealing with consumer protection issues, the state's Attorney General's Office can initiate civil and criminal proceedings; represent the state before state and federal regulatory agencies; administer consumer protection and education programs; handle formal consumer complaints; and exercise broad subpoena powers. In antitrust actions, the Attorney General's Office can act on behalf of those consumers who are incapable of acting on their own; initiate damage actions on behalf of the state in state courts; and initiate criminal proceedings. However, the Attorney General's Office cannot represent counties, cities and other governmental entities in recovering civil damages under state or federal law.

The offices of the Consumer Protection and Antitrust Bureau are located in Concord.

BANKING

As of June 2005, New Hampshire had 30 insured banks, savings and loans, and saving banks, plus 21 state-chartered and six federally chartered credit unions (CUs). Excluding the CUs, the Manchester-Nashua market area accounted for the largest portion of the state's financial institutions and deposits in 2004, with 15 institutions and $6.435 billion in deposits. As of June 2005, CUs accounted for 9.6% of all assets held by all financial institutions in the state, or some $3.349 billion. Banks, savings and loans, and savings banks collectively accounted for the remaining 90.4% or $31.670 billion in assets held.

Twenty percent of New Hampshire's banks have long-term asset concentrations greater than 30% of earnings assets. This is due in large measure to the large percentage of thrifts and residential lenders in the state. Over one-half of all insured banks in New Hampshire are savings institutions.

Regulation of state-chartered banks and other financial institutions is the responsibility of the Banking Department.

INSURANCE

In 2004, there were 631,000 individual life insurance policies in force in New Hampshire, with a total value of about $59.5 billion; total value for all categories of life insurance (individual, group, and credit) was $90 billion. The average coverage amount is $94,400 per policy holder. Death benefits paid that year totaled $209.2 million.

As of 2003, there were 33 property and casualty and 3 life and health insurance companies domiciled in the state. Direct premiums for property and casualty insurance totaled $2.1 billion in 2004. That year, there were 5,211 flood insurance policies in force in the state, with a total value of $758 million.

In 2004, 67% of state residents held employment-based health insurance policies, 3% held individual policies, and 18% were covered under Medicare and Medicaid; 11% of residents were uninsured. New Hampshire has the highest percentage of employment-based insurance in the country. In 2003, employee contributions for employment-based health coverage averaged at 21% for single coverage and 25% for family coverage. The state offers an 18-month health benefits expansion program for small-firm employees in connection with the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (COBRA, 1986), a health insurance program for those who lose employment-based coverage due to termination or reduction of work hours.

In 2003, there were 862,145 auto insurance policies in effect for private passenger cars. Insurance coverage is not mandatory but motorists are expected to take financial responsibility and uninsured motorist coverage is available. In 2003, the average expenditure per vehicle for insurance coverage was $776.47.

SECURITIES

New Hampshire has no securities exchanges. In 2005, there were 490 personal financial advisers employed in the state and 1,950 securities, commodities, and financial services sales agents. In 2004, there were over 36 publicly traded companies within the state, with over 14 NASDAQ companies, 8 NYSE listings, and 4 AMEX listings. In 2006, the state had one Fortune 500 company; Fisher Scientific Intl, based in Hampton and listed on the NYSE, ranked 389th in the nation with revenues of over $5.5 billion. Timberland in Stratham (NYSE) and PC Connection in Merrimack (NASDAQ) made the Fortune 1,000 list.

PUBLIC FINANCE

The New Hampshire state budget is drawn up biennially by the Department of Administrative Services and then submitted by the governor to the legislature for amendment and approval. The fiscal year (FY) runs from 1 July to 30 June.

Fiscal year 2006 general funds were estimated at $1.37 billion for resources and $1.34 billion for expenditures. In fiscal year 2004, federal government grants to New Hampshire were $1.8 billion

On 5 January 2006 the federal government released $100 million in emergency contingency funds targeted to the areas with the greatest need, including $900,000 for New Hampshire.

TAXATION

In 2005, New Hampshire collected $2,022 million in tax revenues or $1,544 per capita, which placed it 48th among the 50 states in per capita tax burden. The national average was $2,192 per capita. Property taxes accounted for 19.4% of the total, selective sales taxes 34.9%, individual income taxes 3.3%, corporate income taxes 23.6%, and other taxes 18.8%.

As of 1 January 2006, state income tax was limited to dividends and interest income only. The state taxes corporations at a flat rate of 8.5%.

In 2004, state and local property taxes amounted to $2.5 billion or $1,940 per capita. The per capita amount ranks the state third-highest nationally. Local governments collected $2,026,125,000 of the total and the state government $493,589,000.

New Hampshire taxes gasoline at 19.625 cents per gallon. This is in addition to the 18.4 cents per gallon federal tax on gasoline.

According to the Tax Foundation, for every federal tax dollar sent to Washington in 2004, New Hampshire citizens received $0.67 in federal spending, which ranks the state third-lowest among all states.

ECONOMIC POLICY

Business incentives in New Hampshire include a generally favorable tax climate (which includes the absence of sales, personal income, and capital gains taxes), specific tax incentives and exemptions, and relatively low wage rates. The state has offered loan programs through the New Hampshire Business Finance Authority since 1992, aimed at encouraging economic development and job creation and at assisting small businesses. The state also participates in a joint venture with Maine and Vermont which provides loans to export companies. Foreign Trade Zone No. 81 provides economic incentives to companies doing business in the international markets. New Hampshire's Division of Economic Development (DED), within the Department of Resources and Economic Development, has the main responsibility for state support of programs to increase jobs and revenues in the state. Major operational units within the DED have been focused on assistance for business relocations and expansions; New Economy Ventures; community development; Internet development; exports of states products, imports of state products and tourism. Under the program NH Works, employers were offered free assistance on all facets of hiring the right employees.

HEALTH

The infant mortality rate in October 2005 was estimated at 5.4 per 1,000 live births. The birth rate in 2003 was 11.2 per 1,000 population. The abortion rate stood at 11.2 per 1,000 women in 2000. In 2003, about 92.8% of pregnant woman received prenatal care beginning in the first trimester; this was the highest rate for prenatal care in the nation. In 2004, approximately 86% of children received routine immunizations before the age of three.

The crude death rate in 2003 was 7.5 deaths per 1,000 population. As of 2002, the death rates for major causes of death (per 100,000 resident population) were: heart disease, 217.7; cancer, 198.3; cerebrovascular diseases, 49.2; chronic lower respiratory diseases, 45.3; and diabetes, 24.4. The mortality rate from HIV infection was not available. In 2004, the reported AIDS case rate was at about 3.2 per 100,000 population. In 2002, about 53.5% of the population was considered overweight or obese. As of 2004, about 21.6% of state residents were smokers.

In 2003, New Hampshire had 28 community hospitals with about 2,800 beds. There were about 118,000 patient admissions that year and 3.1 million outpatient visits. The average daily inpatient census was about 1,700 patients. The average cost per day for hospital care was $1,389. Also in 2003, there were about 81 certified nursing facilities in the state with 7,811 beds and an overall occupancy rate of about 91.5%. New In 2004, it was estimated that about 77.5% of all state residents had received some type of dental care within the year. Hampshire had 267 physicians per 100,000 resident population in 2004 and 932 nurses per 100,000 in 2005. In 2004, there were a total of 795 dentists in the state.

About 10% of state residents were enrolled in Medicaid programs in 2003; 14% were enrolled in Medicare programs in 2004. Approximately 11% of the state population was uninsured in 2004. In 2003, state health care expenditures totaled $1.3 million.

SOCIAL WELFARE

In 2004, about 21,000 people received unemployment benefits, with the average weekly unemployment benefit at $251. In fiscal year 2005, the estimated average monthly participation in the food stamp program included about 52,310 persons (25,198 households); the average monthly benefit was about $80.56 per person. That year, the total of benefits paid through the state for the food stamp program was about $50.5 million, the lowest total in the nation.

Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), the system of federal welfare assistance that officially replaced Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) in 1997, was reauthorized through the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005. TANF is funded through federal block grants that are divided among the states based on an equation involving the number of recipients in each state. New Hampshire's TANF program for work-exempt families is called the Family Assistance Program (FAP), while aid to work-mandated families under TANF is called the New Hampshire Employment Program (NHEP). In 2004, the state program had 14,000 recipients; state and federal expenditures on this TANF program totaled $37 million in fiscal year 2003.

In December 2004, Social Security benefits were paid to 219,080 New Hampshire residents. This number included 143,580 retired workers, 18,050 widows and widowers, 30,090 disabled workers, 8,850 spouses, and 18,510 children. Social Security beneficiaries represented 16.6% of the total state population and 96.9% of the state's population age 65 and older. Retired workers received an average monthly payment of $978; widows and widowers, $948; disabled workers, $897; and spouses, $505. Payments for children of retired workers averaged $513 per month; children of deceased workers, $681; and children of disabled workers, $282. Federal Supplemental Security Income payments in December 2004 went to 13,029 New Hampshire residents, averaging $377 a month. An additional $873,000 of state-administered supplemental payments were distributed to 16,784 residents.

HOUSING

In 2004, there were 575,671 housing units in New Hampshire, 491,589 of which were occupied; 72.6% were owner-occupied. About 62.8% of all units were single-family, detached homes. Fuel oil and kerosene were the most common heating energy sources. It was estimated that 8,724 units lacked telephone service, 2,770 lacked complete plumbing facilities, and 2,725 lacked complete kitchen facilities. The average household had 2.57 members.

In 2004, 8,700 new privately owned units were authorized for construction. The median home value was $216,639. The median monthly cost for mortgage owners was $1,472. Renters paid a median of $810. In 2006, the state received over $9.2 million in community development block grants from the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).

EDUCATION

In 2004, 90.8% of New Hampshire residents age 25 and older were high school graduates, significantly higher than the national average of 84%. Some 35.4% had obtained a bachelor's degree or higher, surpassing the national average of 26%.

The total enrollment for fall 2002 in New Hampshire's public schools stood at 208,000. Of these, 144,000 attended schools from kindergarten through grade eight, and 64,000 attended high school. Approximately 94.2% of the students were white, 1.4% were black, 2.4% were Hispanic, 1.7% were Asian/Pacific Islander, and 0.3% were American Indian/Alaskan Native. Total enrollment was estimated at 205,000 in fall 2003 but expected to be 193,000 by fall 2014, a decline of 7.1% during the period 2002–14. Expenditures for public education in 2003/04 were estimated at $2.1 billion. In fall 2003 there were 23,692 students enrolled in 165 private schools. Since 1969, the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) has tested public school students nationwide. The resulting report, The Nation's Report Card, stated that in 2005 eighth graders in New Hampshire scored 285 out of 500 in mathematics compared with the national average of 278.

As of fall 2002, there were 68,523 students enrolled in college or graduate school; minority students comprised 7.2% of total post-secondary enrollment. In 2005, New Hampshire had 25 degree-granting institutions. The best-known institution of higher education is Dartmouth College, which originated in Connecticut in 1754 as Moor's Indian Charity School and was established at Hanover in 1769. When the state of New Hampshire attempted to amend Dartmouth's charter to make the institution public in the early 19th century, the US Supreme Court handed down a precedent-setting ruling prohibiting state violation of contract rights. The University of New Hampshire, the leading public institution, was founded at Hanover in 1866 and relocated at Durham in 1891. The university also has a campus in Manchester. Other colleges include Franklin Pierce College, Keene State College, and Southern New Hampshire University.

ARTS

The New Hampshire State Council on the Arts was established in 1965 with the mission of making the arts more prevalent in the community and education. In 2005, the New Hampshire State Council on the Arts and other New Hampshire arts organizations received 7 grants totaling $682,100 from the National Endowment for the Arts. State and private sources also contributed substantial funding to the state's arts programs.

As of 2006, the New Hampshire Humanities Council sponsored a number of ongoing programs including What Is New Hampshire Reading?, a statewide reading and discussion program; a Literature and Medicine series that hosts discussions on what matters in health care and why, and an annual summer Chautauqua. In 2005, the National Endowment for the Humanities contributed $743,861 to eight state programs.

Hopkins Center at Dartmouth College features musical events throughout the year. Ballet groups include Ballet New England in Portsmouth, City Center Ballet in Lebanon, and Petit Papillon in Concord. Opera groups include the Granite State Opera in Temple, and Opera North in Hanover. Classical music groups include the Nashua Chamber Orchestra, the Nashua Symphony Orchestra, the Granite State Symphony in Concord, the New England Wind Ensemble in Franklin, and the New Hampshire Philharmonic Orchestra and New Hampshire Symphony Orchestra (both in Manchester). The Lakes Region Symphony Orchestra based in Meredith, celebrated its 30th anniversary during the 2005/06 season.

The New Hampshire Music Festival in Center Harbor serves as a year-round educational institute and performing arts center and sponsors an annual summer festival featuring the New Hampshire Music Festival Orchestra. The festival began in 1952 and as of 2006 it hosted more than 160 events per year, over 50 presented during the summer festival. Monadnock Music in Peterborough is an organization sponsoring a variety of musical programs, including "Lend an Ear!"—a program geared towards educating young people, primarily elementary school children, about chamber music. This program in particular served over 1600 students from 18 different schools during the 2004/05 school year.

Patricia Fargnoli, of Walpole, New Hampshire was named the state's poet laureate for the January 2006–March 2009 term. She has published works that include Necessary Light and Duties of the Spirit (2005) and has won several awards such as the May Swenson Poetry Prize and the Jane Kenyon Poetry Book Award. The artist laureate as of 2006 was James Aponovich, an internationally acclaimed still life painter and teacher at the New Hampshire Institute of Art.

Principal galleries include the Currier Gallery of Art in Manchester, the University Art Gallery at the University of New Hampshire in Durham, Hood Museum—the Dartmouth College Art Museum at Hanover, and the Lamont Gallery at Phillips Exeter Academy in Exeter.

LIBRARIES AND MUSEUMS

As of December 2001, New Hampshire had 229 public library systems, with a total of 238 libraries, of which there were nine branches. The system, that same year, had a total book and serial publication stock of 5,572,000 volumes and a total combined circulation of 8,647,000. The system also had 172,000 audio and 158,000 video items, 18,000 electronic format items (CD-ROMs, magnetic tapes, and disks), and two bookmobiles. Leading academic and historical collections include Dartmouth College's Baker Memorial Library in Hanover (2,309,626 volumes); the New Hampshire State Library (519,319) and New Hampshire Historical Society Library (50,000), both in Concord; and the University of New Hampshire's Ezekiel W. Diamond Library (1,151,203) in Durham. In fiscal year 2001, operating income for the state's public library system was $35,575,000 and included $$50,000 in federal grants and $35,000 in state grants.

Among the more than 76 museums and historic sites are the Museum of New Hampshire History in Concord and the Franklin Pierce Homestead in Hillsboro.

COMMUNICATIONS

In 2004, 96.4% of New Hampshire's occupied housing units had telephones. Additionally, by June of that same year there were 686,746 mobile wireless telephone subscribers. In 2003, 71.5% of New Hampshire households had a computer and 65.2% had Internet access. By June 2005, there were 238,502 high-speed lines in New Hampshire, 223,102 residential and 15,400 for business. In 2005, the state had 32 major radio stations (7 AM, 25 FM), and 5 television stations. State residents also receive broadcasts from neighboring Massachusetts, Vermont, and Maine. A total of 38,887 Internet domain names were registered in the state in 2000.

PRESS

In 2005, New Hampshire had eight morning newspapers, four evening newspapers, and eight Sunday papers. The best-known newspaper in the state is Manchester's The Union Leader (59,384 daily and 81,144 Sunday), published by conservative William Loeb until his death in 1981. In the capital, the Concord Monitor circulates 20,107 papers daily and 22,747 on Sundays. The Dover Foster's Daily Democrat has a circulation of 22,720 for its weekday evening edition and 27,728 for the Sunday edition. The Nashua Telegraph has a circulation of 25,566 daily and 32,672 Sundays.

ORGANIZATIONS

In 2006, there were over 2,015 nonprofit organizations registered within the state, of which about 1,469 were registered as charitable, educational, or religious organizations. National organizations with headquarters in New Hampshire include the Student Conservation Association (Charlestown), Interhostel (Durham), the International Association of Reiki Professionals (Nashua), and the Academy of Applied Science (Concord). The regional Atlantic Offshore Lobstermen's Association is based in Bedford. The New Hampshire Historical Society us based in Concord. There are a number of municipal and county historical societies.

TOURISM, TRAVEL, AND RECREATION

Tourism is a major part of the economy of New Hampshire. It has been estimated that the industry brings in revenues of $8.6 billion per year and sponsors over 65,000 jobs.

Skiing, camping, hiking, and boating are the main outdoor attractions. Other attractions include Strawberry Banke, a restored village in Portsmouth; Daniel Webster's birthplace near Franklin; and the Mt. Washington Cog Railway. Merrimack Valley is the most visited area, generating 36% of all tourism revenue. There are over 72 state parks and recreation areas. Many tourists come to New Hampshire for skiing. One of the most famous natural attractions, "The Old Man on the Mountain," collapsed in May 2003. Motorsports enthusiasts can visit the New Hampshire Speedway. In 2006, Squam Lake celebrated the 25th anniversary of the filming of the feature film, On Golden Pond.

SPORTS

There are no major professional sports teams in New Hampshire, although there are minor league baseball teams in Nashua and Manchester. Major national and international skiing events are frequently held in the state, as are such other winter competitions as snowmobile races and the Annual World Championship Sled Dog Derby in Laconia. Thoroughbred, harness, and greyhound racing are the warm-weather spectator sports. The annual Whaleback Yacht Race is held in early August.

Dartmouth College competes in the Ivy League, and the University of New Hampshire belongs to the America East Conference, both Division I-AA Conferences.

The New Hampshire International Speedway, which opened in Loudon in 1994, plays host to a NASCAR Busch Series and Nextel Cup races in July and September.

FAMOUS NEW HAMPSHIRITES

Born in Hillsboro, Franklin Pierce (1804–69), the nation's 14th president, serving from 1853 to 1857, was the only US chief executive to come from New Hampshire. Henry Wilson (Jeremiah Jones Colbath, 1812–75), US vice president from 1873 to 1875, was a native of Farmington.

US Supreme Court chief justices Salmon P. Chase (1808–73), Harlan Fiske Stone (1872–1946), and David Souter (b.1939) were New Hampshirites, and Levi Woodbury (1789–1851) was a distinguished associate justice. John Langdon (1741–1819) was the first president pro tempore of the US Senate; two other US senators from New Hampshire, George Higgins Moses (b.Maine, 1869–1944) and Henry Styles Bridges (b.Maine, 1898–1961), also held this position. US cabinet members from New Hampshire included Henry Dearborn (1751–1829), secretary of war; Daniel Webster (1782–1852), secretary of state; and William E. Chandler (1835–1917), secretary of the Navy. Other political leaders of note were Benning Wentworth (1696–1770), royal governor Meshech Weare (1713–86), the state's leader during the American Revolution; Josiah Bartlett (b.Massachusetts, 1729–95), a physician, governor, and signer of the Declaration of Independence; Isaac Hill (b.Massachusetts, 1789–1851), a publisher, governor, and US senator; and John Parker Hale (1806–73), senator, antislavery agitator, minister to Spain, and presidential candidate of the Free Soil Party. John Sununu, a former Governor of New Hampshire (b.1939, Cuba) was chief of staff during the Bush administration.

Military leaders associated with New Hampshire during the colonial and Revolutionary periods include John Stark (1728–1822), Robert Rogers (b.Massachusetts, 1731–95), and John Sullivan (1710–95). Among other figures of note are educator Eleazar Wheelock (b.Connecticut, 1711–79), the founder of Dartmouth College; physicians Lyman Spaulding (1775–1821), Reuben D. Mussey (1780–1866), and Amos Twitchell (1781–1850), as well as Samuel Thomson (1769–1843), a leading advocate of herbal medicine; religious leaders Hosea Ballou (1771–1852), his grand-nephew of the same name (1796–1861), and Mary Baker Eddy (1821–1910), founder of Christian Science; George Whipple (1878–1976), winner of the 1934 Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine; and labor organizer and US Communist Party leader Elizabeth Gurley Flynn (1890–1964).

Sarah Josepha Hale (1788–1879), Horace Greeley (1811–72), Charles Dana (1819–97), Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1836–1907), Bradford Torrey (b.Massachusetts, 1843–1912), Alice Brown (1857–1948), and J(erome) D(avid) Salinger (b.New York, 1919) are among the writers and editors who have lived in New Hampshire, along with poets Edna Dean Proctor (1829–1923), Celia Laighton Thaxter (1826–94), Edward Arlington Robinson (b.Maine, 1869–1935), and Robert Frost (b.California, 1874–1963), one of whose poetry volumes is entitled New Hampshire (1923). Painter Benjamin Champney (1817–1907) and sculptor Daniel Chester French (1850–1931) were born in New Hampshire, while Augustus Saint-Gaudens (b.Ireland, 1848–1907) created much of his sculpture in the state.

Vaudevillian Will Cressey (1863–1930) was a New Hampshire man. More recent celebrities include newspaper publisher William Loeb (b.New York, 1905–81) and astronaut Alan B. Shepard Jr. (1923–98).

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New Hampshire

■ CHESTER COLLEGE OF NEW ENGLAND P-7

40 Chester St.
Chester, NH 03036-4331
Tel: (603)887-4401
Free: 800-974-6372
Admissions: (603)887-7400
E-mail: svogell@chestercollege.edu
Web Site: http://www.chestercollege.edu/

Description:

Independent, 4-year, coed. Awards bachelor's degrees. Founded 1965. Setting: 75-acre rural campus with easy access to Boston. Endowment: $3.1 million. Educational spending for 2005 fiscal year: $3868 per student. Total enrollment: 217. Student-undergrad faculty ratio is 10:1. 219 applied, 57% were admitted. 7% from top 10% of their high school class, 24% from top quarter, 29% from top half. Students come from 11 states and territories, 1 other country, 44% from out-of-state, 0% Native American, 1% Hispanic, 1% black, 1% Asian American or Pacific Islander, 0.5% international, 6% 25 or older, 52% live on campus. Retention: 69% of full-time freshmen returned the following year. Academic areas with the most degrees conferred: visual and performing arts; English. Core. Calendar: semesters. Academic remediation for entering students, ESL program, advanced placement, self-designed majors, independent study, double major, summer session for credit, part-time degree program, adult/continuing education programs, co-op programs and internships. Study abroad program.

Entrance Requirements:

Options: Peterson's Universal Application, Common Application, electronic application, deferred admission. Required: essay, high school transcript, minimum 2.2 high school GPA, 2 recommendations, interview. Recommended: minimum 2.7 high school GPA, portfolio. Entrance: moderately difficult. Application deadline: Rolling. Notification: continuous.

Costs Per Year:

Application fee: $35. Comprehensive fee: $22,565 includes full-time tuition ($14,700), mandatory fees ($265), and college room and board ($7600). Part-time tuition: $465 per credit. Part-time mandatory fees: $500 per year.

Collegiate Environment:

Orientation program. Drama-theater group, choral group, student-run newspaper. Social organizations: 7 open to all; 15% of eligible men and 24% of eligible women are members. Most popular organizations: student government, Running Club, Green Life (Recycling), Filmmakers Club, Drama Club. Major annual events: Commencement, Fall/Spring Convocation, Open House. Student services: personal-psychological counseling. Campus security: late night transport-escort service, controlled dormitory access, regular patrols by trained security personnel. 102 college housing spaces available; 90 were occupied in 2003-04. Freshmen guaranteed college housing. Option: coed housing available. Wadleigh Library with 27,000 books, 355 microform titles, 60 serials, 400 audiovisual materials, an OPAC, and a Web page. Operations spending for 2004 fiscal year: $52,635. 29 computers available on campus for general student use. A campuswide network can be accessed from student residence rooms. Staffed computer lab on campus.

Community Environment:

Chester is a small town in close proximity to larger towns and cities such as Derry, Manchester and Boston.

■ COLBY-SAWYER COLLEGE M-4

541 Main St.
New London, NH 03257-7835
Tel: (603)526-3000
Free: 800-272-1015
Admissions: (603)526-3700
Fax: (603)526-3452
E-mail: csadmiss@colby-sawyer.edu
Web Site: http://www.colby-sawyer.edu/

Description:

Independent, 4-year, coed. Awards associate and bachelor's degrees. Founded 1837. Setting: 200-acre small town campus. Endowment: $21.3 million. Educational spending for 2005 fiscal year: $6486 per student. Total enrollment: 971. Student-undergrad faculty ratio is 11:1. 1,474 applied, 90% were admitted. Full-time: 954 students, 64% women, 36% men. Part-time: 17 students, 65% women, 35% men. Students come from 23 states and territories, 5 other countries, 70% from out-of-state, 0% Native American, 0.3% Hispanic, 1% black, 1% Asian American or Pacific Islander, 1% international, 3% 25 or older, 87% live on campus, 4% transferred in. Retention: 79% of full-time freshmen returned the following year. Academic areas with the most degrees conferred: business/marketing; psychology; parks and recreation. Core. Calendar: semesters. ESL program, services for LD students, advanced placement, accelerated degree program, self-designed majors, honors program, independent study, double major, part-time degree program, internships. Off campus study at The New Hampshire College and University Council, American University. Study abroad program. ROTC: Army (c), Air Force (c).

Entrance Requirements:

Options: Peterson's Universal Application, Common Application, electronic application, early admission, early action, deferred admission, international baccalaureate accepted. Required: essay, high school transcript, minimum 2.0 high school GPA, 2 recommendations, minimum of 15 units of college preparatory work, SAT or ACT. Recommended: interview. Entrance: moderately difficult. Application deadlines: 4/1, 12/1 for early decision. Notification: 1/1, 12/15 for early decision.

Costs Per Year:

Application fee: $45. Comprehensive fee: $36,250 includes full-time tuition ($26,350) and college room and board ($9900). College room only: $5600. Part-time tuition: $880 per credit hour.

Collegiate Environment:

Orientation program. Drama-theater group, choral group, student-run newspaper, radio station. Social organizations: 40 open to all. Most popular organizations: Student Government Association, campus radio station, Alpha Chi Honor Society, Outing Club. Major annual events: Mountain Day, Spring Weekend, Hogan Games. Student services: health clinic, personal-psychological counseling. Campus security: 24-hour emergency response devices and patrols, late night transport-escort service, controlled dormitory access, awareness seminars. 867 college housing spaces available; 826 were occupied in 2003-04. Freshmen guaranteed college housing. On-campus residence required in freshman year. Options: coed, women-only housing available. Susan Colgate Cleveland Library Learning Center with 90,055 books, 203,532 microform titles, 514 serials, 2,099 audiovisual materials, an OPAC, and a Web page. Operations spending for 2004 fiscal year: $465,625. 189 computers available on campus for general student use. A campuswide network can be accessed from student residence rooms. Staffed computer lab on campus.

Community Environment:

Located in west central New Hampshire, New London enjoys a very agreeable climate and is a summer and winter tourist haven. Lake Sunapee is ten minutes west of New London and Mount Sunapee Ski Area is approximately twenty minutes away. There are excellent stores and specialty shops along with hotels, inns and lodges that are found in a resort area. Recreation includes winter skiing, hiking, biking, and seasonal fishing in lakes and streams.

■ DANIEL WEBSTER COLLEGE Q-6

20 University Dr.
Nashua, NH 03063-1300
Tel: (603)577-6000
Free: 800-325-6876
Admissions: (603)577-6604
Fax: (603)577-6001
E-mail: thatcher@dwc.edu
Web Site: http://www.dwc.edu/

Description:

Independent, 4-year, coed. Awards associate and bachelor's degrees. Founded 1965. Setting: 50-acre suburban campus with easy access to Boston. Endowment: $1.3 million. Educational spending for 2005 fiscal year: $7065 per student. Total enrollment: 1,109. 642 applied, 79% were admitted. 9% from top 10% of their high school class, 23% from top quarter, 51% from top half. Full-time: 823 students, 25% women, 75% men. Part-time: 227 students, 33% women, 67% men. Students come from 24 states and territories, 17 other countries, 46% from out-of-state, 0% Native American, 1% Hispanic, 2% black, 1% Asian American or Pacific Islander, 1% international, 10% 25 or older, 80% live on campus, 3% transferred in. Retention: 56% of full-time freshmen returned the following year. Core. Calendar: semesters. Advanced placement, accelerated degree program, independent study, distance learning, double major, summer session for credit, part-time degree program, adult/continuing education programs, internships. Off campus study at members of the New Hampshire College and University Council. Study abroad program. ROTC: Army (c), Air Force (c).

Entrance Requirements:

Options: Peterson's Universal Application, Common Application, electronic application, early admission, deferred admission. Required: high school transcript, SAT or ACT. Recommended: 1 recommendation, interview. Entrance: moderately difficult. Application deadline: Rolling. Notification: continuous.

Costs Per Year:

Application fee: $35. Comprehensive fee: $31,405 includes full-time tuition ($22,130), mandatory fees ($825), and college room and board ($8450).

Collegiate Environment:

Orientation program. Drama-theater group, choral group, student-run newspaper. Social organizations: 17 open to all. Most popular organizations: Student Activities Board, Theatre Guild, Ice Hockey Club, student government, jazz band. Major annual events: Parents' Weekend-Casino Night, Commencement, Ski Day. Student services: health clinic, personal-psychological counseling. Campus security: 24-hour emergency response devices and patrols, student patrols, late night transport-escort service, controlled dormitory access. 500 college housing spaces available. Freshmen guaranteed college housing. On-campus residence required through sophomore year. Options: coed, men-only, women-only housing available. Ann Bridge Baddour Library and Learning Center with 34,195 books, 60,064 microform titles, 440 serials, 1,439 audiovisual materials, an OPAC, and a Web page. Operations spending for 2004 fiscal year: $460,000. 137 computers available on campus for general student use. A campuswide network can be accessed from student residence rooms and from off campus. Staffed computer lab on campus.

Community Environment:

See Rivier College.

■ DARTMOUTH COLLEGE

Hanover, NH 03755
Tel: (603)646-1110
Admissions: (603)646-2875
Fax: (603)646-1216
E-mail: admissions.office@dartmouth.edu
Web Site: http://www.dartmouth.edu/

Description:

Independent, university, coed. Awards bachelor's, master's, doctoral, and first professional degrees. Founded 1769. Setting: 265-acre small town campus. Endowment: $2.1 billion. Research spending for 2004 fiscal year: $156.7 million. Total enrollment: 5,780. Faculty: 633 (493 full-time, 140 part-time). Student-undergrad faculty ratio is 8:1. 12,756 applied, 17% were admitted. 88% from top 10% of their high school class, 100% from top half. Full-time: 4,050 students, 50% women, 50% men. Part-time: 60 students, 50% women, 50% men. Students come from 54 states and territories, 47 other countries, 96% from out-of-state, 3% Native American, 6% Hispanic, 7% black, 13% Asian American or Pacific Islander, 5% international, 0% 25 or older, 83% live on campus, 0.3% transferred in. Retention: 98% of full-time freshmen returned the following year. Academic areas with the most degrees conferred: social sciences; history; psychology. Core. Services for LD students, advanced placement, self-designed majors, honors program, independent study, double major, summer session for credit, internships, graduate courses open to undergrads. Off campus study at members of the Twelve College Exchange Program, University of California, San Diego, McGill University, Morehouse College, Spelman College, Stanford University. Study abroad program. ROTC: Army (c).

Entrance Requirements:

Options: Peterson's Universal Application, Common Application, electronic application, early admission, early decision, deferred admission, international baccalaureate accepted. Required: essay, high school transcript, 2 recommendations, peer evaluation, SAT and SAT Subject Tests or ACT. Recommended: interview. Entrance: most difficult. Application deadlines: 1/1, 11/1 for early decision. Notification: 4/10, 12/15 for early decision.

Costs Per Year:

Application fee: $70. Comprehensive fee: $41,436 includes full-time tuition ($31,770), mandatory fees ($276), and college room and board ($9390). College room only: $5640. Room and board charges vary according to board plan.

Collegiate Environment:

Orientation program. Drama-theater group, choral group, marching band, student-run newspaper, radio station. Social organizations: 250 open to all; national fraternities, national sororities, local fraternities, local sororities; 50% of eligible men and 48% of eligible women are members. Most popular organizations: student government, Outing Club, intramural sports, community service, performing arts organizations. Major annual events: Dartmouth Night/Homecoming, Winter Carnival, Green Key Weekend. Student services: health clinic, personal-psychological counseling, women's center. Campus security: 24-hour emergency response devices and patrols, student patrols, late night transport-escort service, controlled dormitory access. Freshmen guaranteed college housing. On-campus residence required in freshman year. Option: coed housing available. Baker-Berry Library plus 10 others with an OPAC and a Web page. 200 computers available on campus for general student use. A campuswide network can be accessed from student residence rooms and from off campus. Staffed computer lab on campus.

Community Environment:

The northern New England surroundings and the small town pleasantness of Hanover are very much a part of undergraduate life. Located in the central western part of New Hampshire, Hanover is bordered by the Connecticut River dividing New Hampshire and Vermont. The rural location provides unsurpassed facilities and opportunities for all forms of outdoor recreation. Hanover provides convenient student shopping facilities, and is easily accessible to all major transportation centers in New England and New York by interstate highway, bus and commuter airline service. Boston, two hours away by car, is the nearest large metropolitan area.

■ FRANKLIN PIERCE COLLEGE Q-3

20 College Rd., PO Box 60
Rindge, NH 03461-0060
Tel: (603)899-4000
Free: 800-437-0048
Admissions: (603)899-4050
Fax: (603)899-4372
E-mail: admissions@rindge.fpc.edu
Web Site: http://www.fpc.edu/

Description:

Independent, comprehensive, coed. Awards bachelor's degrees (profile does not reflect significant enrollment at 6 continuing education sites; master's degree is only offered at these sites). Founded 1962. Setting: 1,000-acre rural campus. Endowment: $6.2 million. Total enrollment: 1,635. Student-undergrad faculty ratio is 16:1. 4,068 applied, 74% were admitted. 1% from top 10% of their high school class, 21% from top quarter, 51% from top half. Full-time: 1,596 students, 49% women, 51% men. Part-time: 39 students, 67% women, 33% men. Students come from 32 states and territories, 18 other countries, 83% from out-of-state, 0.2% Native American, 2% Hispanic, 4% black, 1% Asian American or Pacific Islander, 2% international, 2% 25 or older, 87% live on campus, 2% transferred in. Retention: 66% of full-time freshmen returned the following year. Academic areas with the most degrees conferred: visual and performing arts; business/marketing; communications/journalism. Core. Calendar: semesters. Academic remediation for entering students, ESL program, services for LD students, advanced placement, self-designed majors, honors program, independent study, distance learning, double major, summer session for credit, part-time degree program, adult/continuing education programs, internships. Off campus study at 12 members of the New Hampshire College and University Council. Study abroad program. ROTC: Army (c), Air Force (c).

Entrance Requirements:

Options: Peterson's Universal Application, Common Application, electronic application, early admission, deferred admission, international baccalaureate accepted. Required: essay, high school transcript, 1 recommendation, SAT or ACT. Recommended: minimum 2.0 high school GPA, interview. Entrance: moderately difficult. Application deadline: Rolling. Notification: continuous.

Costs Per Year:

Application fee: $0. Comprehensive fee: $33,500 includes full-time tuition ($24,300), mandatory fees ($1000), and college room and board ($8200). College room only: $4600. Part-time tuition: $810 per credit.

Collegiate Environment:

Orientation program. Drama-theater group, choral group, student-run newspaper, radio station. Social organizations: 32 open to all. Most popular organizations: Outing Club, WFPR-Radio, Student Senate, Law Club, Business Club. Major annual events: Fall Weekend, Crimson and Grey Cultural Series, Alternative Spring Break. Student services: health clinic, personal-psychological counseling. Campus security: 24-hour emergency response devices and patrols, student patrols, late night transport-escort service, controlled dormitory access. 1,389 college housing spaces available; 1,370 were occupied in 2003-04. Freshmen guaranteed college housing. On-campus residence required through senior year. Option: coed housing available. Franklin Pierce College Library plus 1 other with 110,210 books, 26,111 microform titles, 10,985 serials, 10,589 audiovisual materials, an OPAC, and a Web page. 109 computers available on campus for general student use. Computer purchase/lease plans available. A campuswide network can be accessed from student residence rooms. Staffed computer lab on campus.

Community Environment:

Rindge is a rural community with a temperate climate. Cathedral of the Pines, an outdoor international shrine for people of all faiths, is located here. Numerous lakes in the area provide facilities for boating and fishing. There is limited part-time work for students off campus.

■ GRANITE STATE COLLEGE N-6

125 North State St.
Concord, NH 03301
Tel: (603)228-3000
Fax: (603)229-0964
Web Site: http://www.granite.edu/

Description:

State and locally supported, 4-year, coed. Part of University System of New Hampshire. Awards associate and bachelor's degrees (offers primarily part-time degree programs; courses offered at 50 locations in New Hampshire). Founded 1972. Setting: rural campus. Research spending for 2004 fiscal year: $1.1 million. Educational spending for 2005 fiscal year: $4337 per student. Total enrollment: 1,827. Students come from 7 states and territories, 7% from out-of-state, 1% Native American, 1% Hispanic, 1% black, 1% Asian American or Pacific Islander, 0.1% international, 79% 25 or older. Core. Calendar: semesters. Academic remediation for entering students, services for LD students, advanced placement, accelerated degree program, self-designed majors, independent study, distance learning, double major, summer session for credit, part-time degree program, adult/continuing education programs, co-op programs and internships. Off campus study at other units of the University System of New Hampshire and the New Hampshire College and University Council.

Entrance Requirements:

Required for some: ACCUPLACER. Entrance: noncompetitive. Application deadline: Rolling. Notification: continuous.

Collegiate Environment:

Social organizations: 1 open to all. Most popular organization: Alumni Learner Association. College housing not available. 128 computers available on campus for general student use. A campuswide network can be accessed from off-campus. Staffed computer lab on campus.

■ HESSER COLLEGE O-6

3 Sundial Ave.
Manchester, NH 03103-7245
Tel: (603)668-6660
Free: 800-526-9231
Web Site: http://www.hesser.edu/

Description:

Proprietary, primarily 2-year, coed. Part of Quest Education Corporation. Awards certificates, diplomas, transfer associate, terminal associate, and bachelor's degrees (also offers a graduate law program with Massachusetts School of Law at Andover). Founded 1900. Setting: 1-acre urban campus with easy access to Boston. Total enrollment: 3,398. 1,725 applied, 91% were admitted. 12% from top 10% of their high school class, 20% from top quarter, 68% from top half. Full-time: 2,104 students, 67% women, 33% men. Part-time: 1,294 students, 78% women, 22% men. Students come from 12 states and territories, 25% 25 or older, 50% live on campus. Core. Calendar: semesters. Advanced placement, accelerated degree program, self-designed majors, double major, summer session for credit, part-time degree program, adult/continuing education programs, co-op programs and internships.

Entrance Requirements:

Options: Peterson's Universal Application, Common Application, electronic application, deferred admission. Required: high school transcript, interview. Recommended: minimum 2.0 high school GPA, SAT. Required for some: essay, recommendations. Entrance: moderately difficult. Application deadline: Rolling. Notification: continuous.

Costs Per Year:

Application fee: $10. Comprehensive fee: $18,940 includes full-time tuition ($11,340), mandatory fees ($1000), and college room and board ($6600). College room only: $3600. Part-time tuition: $410 per credit.

Collegiate Environment:

Orientation program. Student-run radio station. Social organizations: 7 open to all; local fraternities. Most popular organizations: student government, Ski Club, Amnesty International, yearbook, student ambassadors. Major annual events: Job Fair, Orientation. Student services: health clinic, personal-psychological counseling. Campus security: 24-hour emergency response devices and patrols, student patrols, late night transport-escort service, controlled dormitory access. 400 college housing spaces available; 350 were occupied in 2003-04. Freshmen guaranteed college housing. Option: coed housing available. Kenneth W. Galeucia Memorial Library with 38,000 books, 200 serials, 60 audiovisual materials, an OPAC, and a Web page. 60 computers available on campus for general student use. A campuswide network can be accessed from student residence rooms. Staffed computer lab on campus.

Community Environment:

See Saint Anselm College.

■ KEENE STATE COLLEGE P-2

229 Main St.
Keene, NH 03435
Tel: (603)352-1909
Free: 800-572-1909
Admissions: (603)358-2273
Fax: (603)358-2767
E-mail: admissions@keene.edu
Web Site: http://www.keene.edu/

Description:

State-supported, comprehensive, coed. Part of University System of New Hampshire. Awards bachelor's and master's degrees and post-master's certificates. Founded 1909. Setting: 160-acre small town campus. Endowment: $10 million. Educational spending for 2005 fiscal year: $4485 per student. Total enrollment: 4,846. Faculty: 409 (187 full-time, 222 part-time). Student-undergrad faculty ratio is 17:1. 3,527 applied, 76% were admitted. 4% from top 10% of their high school class, 21% from top quarter, 60% from top half. Full-time: 4,170 students, 57% women, 43% men. Part-time: 559 students, 54% women, 46% men. Students come from 30 states and territories, 11 other countries, 47% from out-of-state, 0.1% Native American, 1% Hispanic, 0.4% black, 1% Asian American or Pacific Islander, 1% international, 11% 25 or older, 56% live on campus, 4% transferred in. Retention: 77% of full-time freshmen returned the following year. Academic areas with the most degrees conferred: education; psychology; social sciences. Core. Calendar: semesters. ESL program, services for LD students, advanced placement, self-designed majors, honors program, independent study, double major, summer session for credit, part-time degree program, co-op programs and internships, graduate courses open to undergrads. Off campus study at members of the New Hampshire College and University Council. Study abroad program. ROTC: Air Force (c).

Entrance Requirements:

Option: deferred admission. Required: essay, high school transcript, 1 recommendation, SAT or ACT. Recommended: interview. Required for some: interview. Entrance: moderately difficult. Application deadline: 4/1. Notification: continuous.

Costs Per Year:

Application fee: $35. State resident tuition: $5780 full-time, $241 per credit part-time. Nonresident tuition: $13,050 full-time, $544 per credit part-time. Mandatory fees: $2038 full-time, $77 per credit part-time. Part-time tuition and fees vary according to course load and degree level. College room and board: $7027. College room only: $4700. Room and board charges vary according to board plan and housing facility.

Collegiate Environment:

Orientation program. Drama-theater group, choral group, student-run newspaper, radio station. Social organizations: 80 open to all; national fraternities, national sororities, local fraternities, local sororities; 3% of eligible men and 3% of eligible women are members. Most popular organizations: Social Activities Council, Concerned Students Coalition, Pride, Habitat for Humanity, Sports Club. Major annual events: Pumpkin Festival, Parent and Family Weekend, Spring Weekend. Student services: health clinic, personal-psychological counseling, women's center. Campus security: 24-hour emergency response devices and patrols, late night transport-escort service, controlled dormitory access. 2,391 college housing spaces available; 2,340 were occupied in 2003-04. Freshmen guaranteed college housing. Options: coed, women-only housing available. Mason Library with 1 million microform titles, 958 serials, an OPAC, and a Web page. Operations spending for 2004 fiscal year: $1.8 million. 500 computers available on campus for general student use. Computer purchase/lease plans available. A campuswide network can be accessed from student residence rooms and from off campus. Staffed computer lab on campus.

Community Environment:

Keene, population 22,000, is located in the southwest corner of New Hampshire, 90 miles from Boston. All forms of commercial transportation are available. Keene is a city of diversified industry with metal and machine industries the most important. There are a number of churches, a community hospital and library serving the area. One of the most popular resorts in the state, Keene has many lakes and ponds within a 20-mile radius as well as golf courses and facilities for winter sports. A number of covered bridges may be seen on side roads off State Highway 10 between Keene and Winchester.

■ MAGDALEN COLLEGE N-4

511 Kearsarge Mountain Rd.
Warner, NH 03278
Tel: (603)456-2656; 877-498-1723
Fax: (603)456-2660
E-mail: jfout@magdalen.edu
Web Site: http://www.magdalen.edu/

Description:

Independent Roman Catholic, 4-year, coed. Awards associate and bachelor's degrees. Founded 1973. Setting: 135-acre small town campus. Endowment: $1 million. Educational spending for 2005 fiscal year: $3800 per student. Total enrollment: 73. Student-undergrad faculty ratio is 8:1. 49 applied, 78% were admitted. Full-time: 72 students, 53% women, 47% men. Part-time: 1 student, 100% women. Students come from 17 states and territories, 1 other country, 93% from out-of-state, 0% Native American, 13% Hispanic, 1% black, 4% Asian American or Pacific Islander, 4% international, 3% 25 or older, 100% live on campus, 0% transferred in. Retention: 85% of full-time freshmen returned the following year. Academic area with the most degrees conferred: liberal arts/general studies. Core. Calendar: semesters. Academic remediation for entering students, part-time degree program, co-op programs.

Entrance Requirements:

Options: early admission, early decision. Required: essay, high school transcript, 2 recommendations, interview, medical examination form, SAT or ACT. Entrance: moderately difficult. Application deadlines: 5/1, 1/1 for early decision.

Costs Per Year:

Application fee: $35. Comprehensive fee: $17,250 includes full-time tuition ($10,750) and college room and board ($6500).

Collegiate Environment:

Orientation program. Choral group. Most popular organizations: performance choir, polophony choir, Drama Club, intramural sports, leisure activities programs. Major annual events: Parents' Weekend, Christmas Party, Winter Rest. Student services: personal-psychological counseling. Campus security: 24-hour emergency response devices, student patrols. 120 college housing spaces available; 65 were occupied in 2003-04. Freshmen guaranteed college housing. On-campus residence required through senior year. Options: men-only, women-only housing available. St. Augustine Learning Center plus 1 other with 26,000 books and 10 serials. Operations spending for 2004 fiscal year: $2500. 6 computers available on campus for general student use. Staffed computer lab on campus.

■ MCINTOSH COLLEGE N-9

23 Cataract Ave.
Dover, NH 03820-3990
Tel: (603)742-1234
Free: 800-McINTOSH
Fax: (603)742-7292
Web Site: http://www.mcintoshcollege.edu/

Description:

Proprietary, 2-year, coed. Awards certificates, transfer associate, and terminal associate degrees. Founded 1896. Setting: 11-acre small town campus with easy access to Boston. Total enrollment: 750. 2,250 applied, 33% were admitted. 8% from top 10% of their high school class, 23% from top quarter, 69% from top half. Students come from 20 states and territories, 10% from out-of-state, 2% Native American, 6% Hispanic, 9% black, 2% Asian American or Pacific Islander, 1% international, 65% 25 or older, 25% live on campus. Retention: 96% of full-time freshmen returned the following year. Core. Calendar: trimesters. Services for LD students, advanced placement, accelerated degree program, double major, summer session for credit, part-time degree program, adult/continuing education programs, co-op programs and internships.

Entrance Requirements:

Open admission. Options: Peterson's Universal Application, Common Application, electronic application, early admission, deferred admission. Required: high school transcript. Recommended: interview. Entrance: noncompetitive. Application deadline: Rolling. Notification: continuous.

Costs Per Year:

Application fee: $15. Comprehensive fee: $25,085 includes full-time tuition ($15,600), mandatory fees ($125), and college room and board ($9360). Part-time tuition: $443 per credit. Tuition guaranteed not to increase for student's term of enrollment.

Collegiate Environment:

Orientation program. Drama-theater group. Social organizations: 10 open to all. Most popular organizations: Student Activities Committee, Drama Club, Business Club, Culture Club, Collegiate Secretaries International. Major annual events: Octoberfest, Spring Fling, Graduation Dinner/Dance. Student services: personal-psychological counseling. Campus security: 24-hour emergency response devices and patrols, student patrols, controlled dormitory access. 240 college housing spaces available; 185 were occupied in 2003-04. Option: coed housing available. McIntosh College Library with 11,000 books and 130 serials. Operations spending for 2004 fiscal year: $45,000. 150 computers available on campus for general student use. Staffed computer lab on campus.

Community Environment:

The oldest permanent settlement in New Hampshire, Dover was founded in 1623 by fishermen and traders. Primarily a manufacturing center, industries produce electrical and electronic equipment, shoes, machinery and sporting goods. Part-time jobs are available. Trains and buses are convenient; airlines service nearby Portsmouth, and Dover does enjoy all the cultural and recreational advantages of that city.

■ NEW ENGLAND COLLEGE N-4

7 Main St.
Henniker, NH 03242-3293
Tel: (603)428-2211
Free: 800-521-7642
Admissions: (603)428-2223
E-mail: admission@nec.edu
Web Site: http://www.nec.edu/

Description:

Independent, comprehensive, coed. Awards associate, bachelor's, and master's degrees. Founded 1946. Setting: 225-acre small town campus with easy access to Boston. Endowment: $4.9 million. Educational spending for 2005 fiscal year: $5436 per student. Total enrollment: 1,380. Faculty: 152 (57 full-time, 95 part-time). Student-undergrad faculty ratio is 11:1. 1,817 applied, 83% were admitted. 9% from top 10% of their high school class, 29% from top quarter, 68% from top half. 5 class presidents, 22 student government officers. Full-time: 972 students, 51% women, 49% men. Part-time: 69 students, 68% women, 32% men. Students come from 33 states and territories, 16 other countries, 67% from out-of-state, 0.4% Native American, 2% Hispanic, 2% black, 2% Asian American or Pacific Islander, 3% international, 6% 25 or older, 68% live on campus, 5% transferred in. Retention: 63% of full-time freshmen returned the following year. Academic areas with the most degrees conferred: business/marketing; psychology; parks and recreation. Core. Calendar: semesters. Academic remediation for entering students, ESL program, services for LD students, advanced placement, self-designed majors, honors program, independent study, distance learning, double major, summer session for credit, part-time degree program, external degree program, adult/continuing education programs, internships, graduate courses open to undergrads. Off campus study at members of the New Hampshire College and University Council. Study abroad program. ROTC: Army (c), Air Force (c).

Entrance Requirements:

Options: Common Application, electronic application, deferred admission, international baccalaureate accepted. Required: essay, high school transcript, 3 recommendations. Recommended: interview. Entrance: moderately difficult. Application deadline: Rolling. Notification: continuous.

Costs Per Year:

Application fee: $30. Comprehensive fee: $31,466 includes full-time tuition ($22,366), mandatory fees ($644), and college room and board ($8456). College room only: $4398. Full-time tuition and fees vary according to class time, course load, degree level, location, and program. Room and board charges vary according to board plan and housing facility. Part-time tuition: $1065 per credit. Part-time mandatory fees: $198 per term. Part-time tuition and fees vary according to class time, course load, degree level, location, and program.

Collegiate Environment:

Orientation program. Drama-theater group, choral group, student-run newspaper, radio station. Social organizations: 27 open to all; national sororities, local fraternities, local sororities; 10% of eligible men and 10% of eligible women are members. Most popular organizations: Student Senate, Campus Activities Board, T.E.A.C.H. (Taking Education Across Children's Horizons), International Student Association. Major annual events: Midnight Madness, Winter Carnival, Spring Fling Weekend. Student services: health clinic, personal-psychological counseling, women's center. Campus security: 24-hour emergency response devices and patrols, student patrols, late night transport-escort service. 671 college housing spaces available; 636 were occupied in 2003-04. Freshmen guaranteed college housing. On-campus residence required through sophomore year. Option: coed housing available. Danforth Library with 100,000 books, 35,000 microform titles, 15,300 serials, 950 audiovisual materials, and an OPAC. Operations spending for 2004 fiscal year: $376,195. 148 computers available on campus for general student use. Computer purchase/lease plans available. A campuswide network can be accessed from student residence rooms and from off campus. Staffed computer lab on campus.

Community Environment:

The campus is situated in an area abounding in natural beauty. Henniker, a village of 3,200, is located on the Contoocook River in a mountainous area of New Hampshire 85 miles from Boston and 15 miles from Concord, the capital. The campus facilities are located throughout Henniker allowing students easy walking access to stores and restaurants. Alpine skiing and snowboarding are available at Pat's Peak two miles from Henniker. Other outdoor recreational facilities abound in the surrounding area.

■ NEW HAMPSHIRE COMMUNITY TECHNICAL COLLEGE, BERLIN/LACONIA F-7

2020 Riverside Dr.
Berlin, NH 03570-3717
Tel: (603)752-1113
Free: 800-445-4525
Web Site: http://www.berlin.nhctc.edu/

Description:

State-supported, 2-year, coed. Part of New Hampshire Community Technical College System. Awards certificates, diplomas, transfer associate, and terminal associate degrees. Founded 1966. Setting: 325-acre rural campus. Total enrollment: 2,080. 5% from top 10% of their high school class, 12% from top quarter, 65% from top half. Full-time: 708 students, 46% women, 54% men. Part-time: 1,372 students, 67% women, 33% men. Students come from 6 states and territories, 9% from out-of-state, 0.1% Native American, 0.1% Hispanic, 0.1% black, 0.2% Asian American or Pacific Islander, 0% international, 3% transferred in. Core. Calendar: semesters. Academic remediation for entering students, services for LD students, advanced placement, independent study, distance learning, double major, summer session for credit, part-time degree program, external degree program, adult/continuing education programs, internships.

Entrance Requirements:

Required: high school transcript, placement test, ACT ASSET. Required for some: essay. Entrance: minimally difficult. Application deadline: Rolling. Notification: continuous.

Costs Per Year:

Application fee: $10. State resident tuition: $164 per credit part-time. Nonresident tuition: $376 per credit part-time. Mandatory fees: $4 per credit part-time.

Collegiate Environment:

Orientation program. Student-run newspaper. Most popular organization: Student Senate. Student services: personal-psychological counseling, women's center. College housing not available. Fortier Library with 10,000 books, 15 microform titles, 160 serials, 50 audiovisual materials, and an OPAC. 65 computers available on campus for general student use. A campuswide network can be accessed from off-campus. Staffed computer lab on campus.

■ NEW HAMPSHIRE COMMUNITY TECHNICAL COLLEGE, MANCHESTER/STRATHAM O-6

1066 Front St.
Manchester, NH 03102-8518
Tel: (603)668-6706
E-mail: ntravers@nhctc.edu
Web Site: http://www.manchester.nhctc.edu/

Description:

State-supported, 2-year, coed. Part of New Hampshire Community Technical College System. Awards certificates, diplomas, transfer associate, and terminal associate degrees. Founded 1945. Setting: 60-acre urban campus with easy access to Boston. Research spending for 2004 fiscal year: $35,000. Total enrollment: 2,944. Student-undergrad faculty ratio is 14:1. 2,800 applied, 90% were admitted. Students come from 5 states and territories. Core. Calendar: semesters. Academic remediation for entering students, ESL program, services for LD students, advanced placement, independent study, distance learning, summer session for credit, part-time degree program, external degree program, adult/continuing education programs, co-op programs and internships.

Entrance Requirements:

Options: early admission, deferred admission. Required: high school transcript, interview. Recommended: recommendations. Entrance: minimally difficult. Application deadline: Rolling. Notification: continuous.

Costs Per Year:

Application fee: $10. Area resident tuition: $3936 full-time, $164 per credit part-time. State resident tuition: $5904 full-time, $246 per credit part-time. Nonresident tuition: $9024 full-time, $376 per credit part-time. Mandatory fees: $5 per credit part-time.

Collegiate Environment:

Orientation program. Social organizations: 4 open to all. Most popular organizations: Student Senate, Phi Theta Kappa, American Society of Welders, Student Nurses Association. Major annual events: Spring Formal, graduation. Student services: personal-psychological counseling. Campus security: trained security personnel. College housing not available. New Hampshire Community Technical College Library plus 1 other with 18,000 books, 160 serials, and an OPAC. Operations spending for 2004 fiscal year: $66,600. 210 computers available on campus for general student use. A campuswide network can be accessed. Staffed computer lab on campus.

■ NEW HAMPSHIRE COMMUNITY TECHNICAL COLLEGE, NASHUA/CLAREMONT Q-6

505 Amherst St.
Nashua, NH 03063-1026
Tel: (603)882-6923
Fax: (603)882-8690
E-mail: nashua@nhctc.edu
Web Site: http://www.ncctc.edu/

Description:

State-supported, 2-year, coed. Part of New Hampshire Community Technical College System. Awards certificates, diplomas, transfer associate, and terminal associate degrees. Founded 1967. Setting: 66-acre urban campus with easy access to Boston. Total enrollment: 1,639. Student-undergrad faculty ratio is 9:1. 1 valedictorian. Core. Calendar: semesters. Academic remediation for entering students, ESL program, services for LD students, self-designed majors, distance learning, summer session for credit, part-time degree program, external degree program, adult/continuing education programs, co-op programs and internships.

Entrance Requirements:

Option: deferred admission. Required: high school transcript, interview. Recommended: recommendations. Required for some: recommendations, nursing exam. Entrance: minimally difficult. Application deadline: Rolling. Notification: continuous.

Costs Per Year:

Application fee: $10. State resident tuition: $5248 full-time, $164 per credit part-time. Nonresident tuition: $12,032 full-time, $376 per credit part-time. Mandatory fees: $512 full-time, $16 per credit part-time.

Collegiate Environment:

Orientation program. Drama-theater group, student-run newspaper. Social organizations: 11 open to all. Most popular organizations: Student Senate, Phi Theta Kappa, AmeriCorp, Paralegal Club, Ski Club. Student services: personal-psychological counseling. Campus security: 24-hour emergency response devices. College housing not available. Walter B. Peterson Library and Media Center with 22,000 books, 250 serials, and an OPAC. 150 computers available on campus for general student use. A campuswide network can be accessed. Staffed computer lab on campus.

■ NEW HAMPSHIRE INSTITUTE OF ART O-6

148 Concord St.
Manchester, NH 03104-4158
Tel: (603)623-0313
Admissions: (866)241-4918
Fax: (603)641-1832
E-mail: lsullivan@nhia.edu
Web Site: http://www.nhia.edu/

Description:

Proprietary, 4-year, coed. Awards bachelor's degrees. Founded 1898. Setting: urban campus with easy access to Boston, MA. Total enrollment: 180. 75 applied, 83% were admitted. Full-time: 135 students, 66% women, 34% men. Part-time: 45 students, 84% women, 16% men. Students come from 6 states and territories, 9% from out-of-state, 1% Hispanic, 3% Asian American or Pacific Islander, 2% international, 33% 25 or older, 15% transferred in. Core. Calendar: semesters. Summer session for credit, part-time degree program.

Entrance Requirements:

Open admission. Required: essay, high school transcript, recommendations, portfolio, SAT or ACT. Recommended: interview. Entrance: minimally difficult.

Costs Per Year:

Application fee: $25. Tuition: $10,950 full-time, $365 per credit part-time. Mandatory fees: $1130 full-time, $466 per year part-time. College room only: $5700. Room charges vary according to housing facility.

Collegiate Environment:

Orientation program. Major annual event: Student Art Exhibitions. 72 college housing spaces available; 30 were occupied in 2003-04. No special consideration for freshman housing applicants. Options: coed, women-only housing available. New Hampshire Institute of Art Library with 5,000 books, 5 microform titles, 55 serials, 1,000 audiovisual materials, an OPAC, and a Web page. 5 computers available on campus for general student use.

■ NEW HAMPSHIRE TECHNICAL INSTITUTE N-6

11 Institute Dr.
Concord, NH 03301-7412
Tel: (603)271-6484
Free: 800-247-0179
Admissions: (603)271-7131
Fax: (603)271-7734
Web Site: http://www.nhti.edu/

Description:

State-supported, 2-year, coed. Part of New Hampshire Community Technical College System. Awards certificates, diplomas, and transfer associate degrees. Founded 1964. Setting: 225-acre small town campus with easy access to Boston. Total enrollment: 3,650. Student-undergrad faculty ratio is 12:1. 1,919 applied, 73% were admitted. 22% from top quarter of their high school class, 41% from top half. 1 valedictorian. Students come from 12 states and territories, 24 other countries, 2% from out-of-state, 0.3% Native American, 2% Hispanic, 1% black, 1% Asian American or Pacific Islander, 50% 25 or older, 23% live on campus. Calendar: semesters. Academic remediation for entering students, ESL program, services for LD students, advanced placement, distance learning, double major, summer session for credit, part-time degree program, external degree program, adult/continuing education programs.

Entrance Requirements:

Options: Peterson's Universal Application, electronic application. Required: high school transcript. Recommended: minimum 2.0 high school GPA, SAT or ACT. Required for some: essay, recommendations, interview, National League of Nursing Exam. Entrance: moderately difficult. Application deadline: Rolling. Notification: continuous. Preference given to state residents.

Costs Per Year:

Application fee: $10. State resident tuition: $4920 full-time, $164 per credit part-time. Nonresident tuition: $11,280 full-time, $376 per credit part-time. Mandatory fees: $480 full-time, $16 per credit part-time. College room and board: $6110. College room only: $4150.

Collegiate Environment:

Orientation program. Drama-theater group. Most popular organizations: Phi Theta Kappa, Student Senate, Student Nurses Association, Criminal Justice Club, Outing Club. Student services: health clinic, personal-psychological counseling. Campus security: 24-hour patrols, late night transport-escort service, controlled dormitory access. Option: coed housing available. Farnum Library plus 1 other with 32,000 books, 12,000 microform titles, 500 serials, 1,000 audiovisual materials, an OPAC, and a Web page. 160 computers available on campus for general student use. Staffed computer lab on campus.

Community Environment:

Bisected by the Merrimack River, Concord is the capital of New Hampshire, and is the economic and political center of the state. It is a key city on the interstate highway system. Community facilities include three libraries, numerous churches, a YMCA, hospitals, and good shopping. Job opportunities are good.

■ PLYMOUTH STATE UNIVERSITY K-5

17 High St.
Plymouth, NH 03264-1595
Tel: (603)535-5000
Free: 800-842-6900
Fax: (603)535-2714
E-mail: plymouthadmit@plymouth.edu
Web Site: http://www.plymouth.edu/

Description:

State-supported, comprehensive, coed. Part of University System of New Hampshire. Awards bachelor's and master's degrees and post-master's certificates. Founded 1871. Setting: 170-acre small town campus. Endowment: $4.1 million. Research spending for 2004 fiscal year: $1.9 million. Total enrollment: 5,264. Faculty: 452 (175 full-time, 277 part-time). Student-undergrad faculty ratio is 17:1. 3,655 applied, 77% were admitted. 4% from top 10% of their high school class, 16% from top quarter, 52% from top half. Full-time: 3,956 students, 49% women, 51% men. Part-time: 236 students, 53% women, 47% men. Students come from 31 states and territories, 10 other countries, 40% from out-of-state, 0.3% Native American, 1% Hispanic, 1% black, 1% Asian American or Pacific Islander, 1% international, 4% 25 or older, 53% live on campus, 5% transferred in. Retention: 76% of full-time freshmen returned the following year. Academic areas with the most degrees conferred: education; business/marketing; visual and performing arts. Core. Calendar: semesters. Services for LD students, advanced placement, accelerated degree program, self-designed majors, honors program, independent study, double major, summer session for credit, part-time degree program, internships, graduate courses open to undergrads. Off campus study at members of the New Hampshire College and University Council. Study abroad program. ROTC: Army (c), Air Force (c).

Entrance Requirements:

Options: electronic application, deferred admission. Required: essay, high school transcript, 1 recommendation, SAT or ACT. Required for some: interview. Entrance: moderately difficult. Application deadline: 4/1. Notification: continuous until 7/1.

Costs Per Year:

Application fee: $35. State resident tuition: $5410 full-time, $226 per credit hour part-time. Nonresident tuition: $12,250 full-time, $510 per credit hour part-time. Mandatory fees: $1618 full-time, $74 per credit hour part-time. Full-time tuition and fees vary according to reciprocity agreements. Part-time tuition and fees vary according to course load and reciprocity agreements. College room and board: $6780. College room only: $4650. Room and board charges vary according to board plan and housing facility.

Collegiate Environment:

Orientation program. Drama-theater group, choral group, student-run newspaper, radio station. Social organizations: 100 open to all; national fraternities, national sororities, local fraternities, local sororities; 1% of eligible men and 1% of eligible women are members. Most popular organizations: Programming Activities in College Environment, Student Senate, alternative spring break, Childhood Studies Club, Health, Physical Ed, & Recreation Club. Major annual events: Spring Fling, Family Weekend, Homecoming Weekend. Student services: health clinic, personal-psychological counseling, women's center, career services, campus ministries, academic support services, veterans ser. Campus security: 24-hour emergency response devices and patrols, student patrols, late night transport-escort service, controlled dormitory access, shuttle bus service, crime prevention programs, self-defense education. 2,164 college housing spaces available; 2,119 were occupied in 2003-04. Freshmen given priority for college housing. On-campus residence required in freshman year. Option: coed housing available. Lamson Library with 306,314 books, 796,924 microform titles, 1,043 serials, 23,095 audiovisual materials, an OPAC, and a Web page. Operations spending for 2004 fiscal year: $1.9 million. 500 computers available on campus for general student use. Computer purchase/lease plans available. A campuswide network can be accessed from student residence rooms and from off campus. Staffed computer lab on campus.

Community Environment:

With the White Mountains to the north, the Lakes Region to the south, and the Pemigewasset Rivers bordering the town to the east, Plymouth, NH is home to some of the country's most spectacular wilderness. PSC students step outside every morning into a natural landscape that provides four seasons of recreational and educational adventure. Here, the outdoors offer a natural laboratory, a classroom, and a playground. The campus is nestled in the town of Plymouth, which has been ranked seventh in The 100 Best Small Towns in America. Plymouth is less than 2 hours' drive from Boston. Portland, Maine is 2 hours east; Burlington, Vermont, is 2 hours to the northwest; and Montreal, Canada is only 3 1/2 hours to the north. Recreational activities include skiing and other winter sports, hiking, fishing, boating, and hunting.

■ RIVIER COLLEGE Q-6

420 Main St.
Nashua, NH 03060-5086
Tel: (603)888-1311
Free: 800-44RIVIER
Admissions: (603)897-8502
Fax: (603)891-1799
E-mail: rivadmit@rivier.edu
Web Site: http://www.rivier.edu/

Description:

Independent Roman Catholic, comprehensive, coed. Awards associate, bachelor's, and master's degrees and post-master's certificates. Founded 1933. Setting: 64-acre suburban campus with easy access to Boston. Endowment: $19 million. Educational spending for 2005 fiscal year: $4638 per student. Total enrollment: 2,123. Faculty: 180 (71 full-time, 109 part-time). Student-undergrad faculty ratio is 9:1. 1,132 applied, 72% were admitted. 11% from top 10% of their high school class, 39% from top quarter, 75% from top half. Full-time: 845 students, 79% women, 21% men. Part-time: 543 students, 78% women, 22% men. Students come from 10 states and territories, 7 other countries, 45% from out-of-state, 0.2% Native American, 3% Hispanic, 2% black, 1% Asian American or Pacific Islander, 0% international, 38% 25 or older, 46% live on campus, 9% transferred in. Academic areas with the most degrees conferred: education; health professions and related sciences; social sciences. Core. Calendar: semesters. ESL program, services for LD students, advanced placement, accelerated degree program, honors program, independent study, double major, part-time degree program, adult/continuing education programs, internships. Off campus study at members of the New Hampshire College and University Council. ROTC: Air Force (c).

Entrance Requirements:

Options: Common Application, early action, deferred admission. Required: essay, high school transcript, 1 recommendation, SAT or ACT. Recommended: minimum 2.3 high school GPA, interview. Required for some: interview, nursing exam. Entrance: moderately difficult. Application deadlines: Rolling, 11/15 for early action. Notification: continuous, 12/1 for early action.

Costs Per Year:

Application fee: $25. Comprehensive fee: $28,144 includes full-time tuition ($19,980), mandatory fees ($600), and college room and board ($7564). Room and board charges vary according to board plan and housing facility. Part-time tuition: $666 per credit. Part-time tuition varies according to class time.

Collegiate Environment:

Orientation program. Drama-theater group, choral group, student-run newspaper. Social organizations: 32 open to all. Most popular organizations: Student Government Association, Residence Hall Council, Student Business Organization, Student Admissions Committee, Behavioral Sciences Association. Major annual events: Rivier Theater Company Productions, International Week, R-Aid Day. Student services: health clinic, personal-psychological counseling. Campus security: 24-hour emergency response devices and patrols, late night transport-escort service, controlled dormitory access. 450 college housing spaces available; 420 were occupied in 2003-04. Freshmen guaranteed college housing. Option: coed housing available. Regina Library plus 1 other with 92,000 books, 130,000 microform titles, 500 serials, 4,000 audiovisual materials, an OPAC, and a Web page. Operations spending for 2004 fiscal year: $764,283. 93 computers available on campus for general student use. A campuswide network can be accessed from student residence rooms and from off campus. Staffed computer lab on campus.

Community Environment:

Nashua is the second largest city in New Hampshire. It is conveniently located within an hour's drive of Boston, the White Mountains, and the seacoast, and is home to a large technology industry. Buses provide ample transportation to shopping malls, libraries, banking facilities, and many other services within just a few miles of the campus.

■ SAINT ANSELM COLLEGE O-6

100 Saint Anselm Dr.
Manchester, NH 03102-1310
Tel: (603)641-7000; 888-4ANSELM
Admissions: (603)641-7500
Fax: (603)641-7550
E-mail: admission@anselm.edu
Web Site: http://www.anselm.edu/

Description:

Independent Roman Catholic, 4-year, coed. Awards bachelor's degrees. Founded 1889. Setting: 450-acre suburban campus with easy access to Boston. Endowment: $48.6 million. Research spending for 2004 fiscal year: $304,793. Educational spending for 2005 fiscal year: $5888 per student. Total enrollment: 1,986. Student-undergrad faculty ratio is 13:1. 3,258 applied, 73% were admitted. 15% from top 10% of their high school class, 45% from top quarter, 83% from top half. Full-time: 1,937 students, 58% women, 42% men. Part-time: 49 students, 65% women, 35% men. Students come from 28 states and territories, 15 other countries, 0.1% Native American, 1% Hispanic, 1% black, 1% Asian American or Pacific Islander, 1% international, 1% 25 or older, 95% live on campus, 1% transferred in. Retention: 82% of full-time freshmen returned the following year. Academic areas with the most degrees conferred: business/marketing; social sciences; security and protective services. Core. Calendar: semesters. Services for LD students, advanced placement, honors program, independent study, summer session for credit, part-time degree program, internships. Off campus study at members of the New Hampshire College and University Council. Study abroad program. ROTC: Army (c), Air Force (c).

Entrance Requirements:

Options: Peterson's Universal Application, Common Application, electronic application, early admission, early decision, deferred admission, international baccalaureate accepted. Required: essay, high school transcript, minimum 2.0 high school GPA, 2 recommendations, SAT or ACT. Recommended: interview. Entrance: moderately difficult. Application deadlines: Rolling, 11/15 for early decision. Notification: continuous, 12/1 for early decision.

Costs Per Year:

Application fee: $55. Comprehensive fee: $33,730 includes full-time tuition ($23,990), mandatory fees ($670), and college room and board ($9070). Part-time tuition: $2400 per course.

Collegiate Environment:

Orientation program. Social organizations: 64 open to all. Most popular organizations: Center for Volunteers, Anselmian Abbey Players, Knights of Columbus, spring break alternative, International Relations Club. Major annual events: Homecoming, Spring Weekend, Family Weekend. Student services: health clinic, personal-psychological counseling. Campus security: 24-hour emergency response devices and patrols, late night transport-escort service, controlled dormitory access. College housing designed to accommodate 1,643 students; 1,692 undergraduates lived in college housing during 2003-04. Freshmen guaranteed college housing. On-campus residence required in freshman year. Options: men-only, women-only housing available. Geisel Library with 222,000 books, 66,000 microform titles, 1,900 serials, 8,000 audiovisual materials, an OPAC, and a Web page. Operations spending for 2004 fiscal year: $1.3 million. 400 computers available on campus for general student use. A campuswide network can be accessed from student residence rooms and from off campus. Staffed computer lab on campus.

Community Environment:

On the banks of Merrimack River, Manchester is the largest city in the state. The city is a retail, industrial, distribution and financial center. All means of commercial transportation are available. Community facilities include 54 churches, 8 hospitals, a public library, hotels and motels. The recreational activities are numerous. They include golf, swimming, bowling, tennis, roller skating, fishing, sailing, skiing, ice skating, and tobogganing. Points of interest are the Currier Gallery of Art, Manchester Historic Association and the Old Blodgett Canal.

■ SOUTHERN NEW HAMPSHIRE UNIVERSITY O-6

2500 North River Rd.
Manchester, NH 03106-1045
Tel: (603)668-2211
Free: 800-642-4968
Admissions: (603)645-9611
Fax: (603)645-9693
E-mail: admission@nhc.edu
Web Site: http://www.snhu.edu/

Description:

Independent, comprehensive, coed. Awards associate, bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees. Founded 1932. Setting: 280-acre suburban campus with easy access to Boston. Endowment: $11.8 million. Educational spending for 2005 fiscal year: $6493 per student. Total enrollment: 3,887. Faculty: 389 (114 full-time, 275 part-time). Student-undergrad faculty ratio is 14:1. 2,654 applied, 74% were admitted. 6% from top 10% of their high school class, 26% from top quarter, 66% from top half. Full-time: 1,784 students, 55% women, 45% men. Part-time: 60 students, 50% women, 50% men. Students come from 23 states and territories, 63 other countries, 52% from out-of-state, 0.2% Native American, 1% Hispanic, 1% black, 2% Asian American or Pacific Islander, 2% international, 78% live on campus, 5% transferred in. Retention: 75% of full-time freshmen returned the following year. Academic areas with the most degrees conferred: business/marketing; personal and culinary services; psychology. Core. Calendar: semesters. Academic remediation for entering students, ESL program, services for LD students, advanced placement, accelerated degree program, honors program, independent study, distance learning, double major, summer session for credit, part-time degree program, adult/continuing education programs, co-op programs and internships, graduate courses open to undergrads. Off campus study at members of the New Hampshire College and University Council. Study abroad program. ROTC: Army (c), Air Force (c).

Entrance Requirements:

Options: Peterson's Universal Application, Common Application, electronic application, early action, deferred admission, international baccalaureate accepted. Required: essay, high school transcript, minimum 2.0 high school GPA, recommendations, 1 letter of recommendation from guidance counselor or 2 letters from teachers, SAT or ACT. Recommended: interview. Entrance: moderately difficult. Application deadlines: Rolling, 11/15 for early action. Notification: continuous, 12/15 for early action.

Costs Per Year:

Application fee: $35. Comprehensive fee: $30,194 includes full-time tuition ($21,384), mandatory fees ($330), and college room and board ($8480). College room only: $6080. Part-time tuition: $891 per credit.

Collegiate Environment:

Orientation program. Drama-theater group, student-run newspaper, radio station. Social organizations: 40 open to all; national fraternities, national sororities, local fraternities, local sororities; 3% of eligible men and 3% of eligible women are members. Most popular organizations: Student Government Association, Student Programming Board, Association Cultural Exchange, Commuter Club. Major annual events: Family Weekend, New Student Fall Orientation, Fall/Spring Weekend. Student services: health clinic, personal-psychological counseling. Campus security: 24-hour emergency response devices and patrols, student patrols, late night transport-escort service, controlled dormitory access. 1,426 college housing spaces available; all were occupied in 2003-04. Freshmen guaranteed college housing. On-campus residence required in freshman year. Option: coed housing available. Harry A. B. and Gertrude C. Shapiro Library with 89,338 books, 350,000 microform titles, 14,400 serials, an OPAC, and a Web page. Operations spending for 2004 fiscal year: $1.4 million. 557 computers available on campus for general student use. Computer purchase/lease plans available. A campuswide network can be accessed from student residence rooms and from off campus. Staffed computer lab on campus.

Community Environment:

Combining the tradition of the past with the sophistication of the future, Manchester has everything to be expected in a city with a population of more than 100,000, offering a thriving business environment as well as numerous cultural facilities. It is also within an hour of Boston, many ski resorts, and beaches that provide opportunities for jobs and recreation.

■ THOMAS MORE COLLEGE OF LIBERAL ARTS P-6

6 Manchester St.
Merrimack, NH 03054-4818
Tel: (603)880-8308
Free: 800-880-8308
Fax: (603)880-9280
Web Site: http://www.thomasmorecollege.edu/

Description:

Independent, 4-year, coed, affiliated with Roman Catholic Church. Awards bachelor's degrees. Founded 1978. Setting: 14-acre small town campus with easy access to Boston. Educational spending for 2005 fiscal year: $4044 per student. Total enrollment: 86. 43 applied, 84% were admitted. Full-time: 86 students, 49% women, 51% men. Students come from 24 states and territories, 4 other countries, 78% from out-of-state, 1% Native American, 6% Hispanic, 1% Asian American or Pacific Islander, 3% international, 3% 25 or older, 97% live on campus, 13% transferred in. Retention: 85% of full-time freshmen returned the following year. Core. Calendar: semesters. Independent study. Study abroad program.

Entrance Requirements:

Options: electronic application, early admission, deferred admission. Required: essay, high school transcript, 2 recommendations, SAT or ACT. Required for some: interview. Entrance: moderately difficult. Application deadline: Rolling. Notification: continuous.

Costs Per Year:

Application fee: $0. Comprehensive fee: $18,650 includes full-time tuition ($10,600), mandatory fees ($50), and college room and board ($8000). Part-time tuition: $175 per credit hour.

Collegiate Environment:

Orientation program. Choral group. Major annual events: Graduation, Convocation, visiting lectures. Student services: personal-psychological counseling. Campus security: student patrols, late night transport-escort service. 80 college housing spaces available; all were occupied in 2003-04. Freshmen guaranteed college housing. On-campus residence required through senior year. Options: men-only, women-only housing available. Warren Memorial Library plus 1 other with 45,000 books, 20 serials, and 1,000 audiovisual materials. Operations spending for 2004 fiscal year: $16,806. 6 computers available on campus for general student use. Staffed computer lab on campus.

■ UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE O-9

Durham, NH 03824
Tel: (603)862-1234
Admissions: (603)862-1360
E-mail: admissions@unh.edu
Web Site: http://www.unh.edu/

Description:

State-supported, university, coed. Part of University System of New Hampshire. Awards associate, bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees and post-master's certificates. Founded 1866. Setting: 2,600-acre small town campus with easy access to Boston. Endowment: $186.8 million. Research spending for 2004 fiscal year: $93.8 million. Educational spending for 2005 fiscal year: $8602 per student. Total enrollment: 14,564. Faculty: 962 (694 full-time, 268 part-time). Student-undergrad faculty ratio is 16:1. 12,310 applied, 72% were admitted. 20% from top 10% of their high school class, 61% from top quarter, 97% from top half. 33 valedictorians. Full-time: 10,911 students, 57% women, 43% men. Part-time: 618 students, 51% women, 49% men. Students come from 44 states and territories, 28 other countries, 42% from out-of-state, 0.3% Native American, 2% Hispanic, 1% black, 2% Asian American or Pacific Islander, 1% international, 4% 25 or older, 56% live on campus, 4% transferred in. Retention: 86% of full-time freshmen returned the following year. Academic areas with the most degrees conferred: business/marketing; social sciences; English. Core. Calendar: semesters. ESL program, services for LD students, advanced placement, self-designed majors, honors program, independent study, double major, summer session for credit, part-time degree program, external degree program, adult/continuing education programs, internships, graduate courses open to undergrads. Off campus study at National Student Exchange, New Hampshire College and University Council Exchange, New England Land Grant Universities Exchange, University of California, Santa Cruz Exchange, The Washington (D.C.) Center Internship. Study abroad program. ROTC: Army, Air Force.

Entrance Requirements:

Options: Common Application, electronic application, early action, deferred admission, international baccalaureate accepted. Required: essay, high school transcript, 1 recommendation, SAT or ACT. Recommended: minimum 3.0 high school GPA. Entrance: moderately difficult. Application deadlines: 2/1, 12/1 for early action. Notification: 4/15, 1/15 for early action. Preference given to state residents.

Costs Per Year:

Application fee: $45. State resident tuition: $8240 full-time. Nonresident tuition: $20,690 full-time. Mandatory fees: $2161 full-time. College room and board: $7584. College room only: $4606.

Collegiate Environment:

Orientation program. Drama-theater group, choral group, marching band, student-run newspaper, radio station. Social organizations: 160 open to all; national fraternities, national sororities, local fraternities; 4% of eligible men and 5% of eligible women are members. Most popular organizations: Outing Club, Student Committee on Popular Entertainment, Diversity Support Coalition, Campus Activities Board, Student Environmental Action Coalition. Major annual events: Homecoming, Jukebox, Winter Carnival. Student services: legal services, health clinic, personal-psychological counseling, women's center. Campus security: 24-hour emergency response devices and patrols, student patrols, late night transport-escort service, controlled dormitory access, lighted pathways and sidewalks. College housing designed to accommodate 5,900 students; 6,180 undergraduates lived in college housing during 2003-04. Freshmen guaranteed college housing. Options: coed, women-only housing available. Dimond Library plus 4 others with 1.8 million books, 3 million microform titles, 25,962 serials, 37,114 audiovisual materials, an OPAC, and a Web page. Operations spending for 2004 fiscal year: $14 million. 389 computers available on campus for general student use. A campuswide network can be accessed from student residence rooms and from off campus. Staffed computer lab on campus.

Community Environment:

Situated in southeastern New Hampshire, Durham is a quiet college town with many small restaurants, shops, and pubs located near the university. The cultural and recreational advantages of Portland to the northeast and nearby Boston to the south are both within one hour's drive. The University is 10 miles from the Atlantic coastline and historic Portsmouth. The White Mountains and ski areas are 60 miles to the northwest.

■ UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE AT MANCHESTER O-6

400 Commercial St.
Manchester, NH 03101-1113
Tel: (603)641-4321
Admissions: (603)641-4150
Fax: (603)641-4125
Web Site: http://www.unhm.unh.edu/

Description:

State-supported, comprehensive, coed. Part of University System of New Hampshire. Awards associate, bachelor's, and master's degrees. Founded 1967. Setting: 800-acre urban campus with easy access to Boston. Total enrollment: 1,165. Faculty: 91 (33 full-time, 58 part-time). Student-undergrad faculty ratio is 12:1. 286 applied, 63% were admitted. 3% from top 10% of their high school class, 15% from top quarter, 52% from top half. Full-time: 561 students, 58% women, 42% men. Part-time: 437 students, 57% women, 43% men. Students come from 4 states and territories, 5 other countries, 2% from out-of-state, 0.4% Native American, 2% Hispanic, 2% black, 2% Asian American or Pacific Islander, 1% international, 13% transferred in. Core. Calendar: semesters. Academic remediation for entering students, services for LD students, advanced placement, self-designed majors, independent study, double major, summer session for credit, part-time degree program, external degree program, adult/continuing education programs, internships. Off campus study at 12 members of the New Hampshire College and University Council. Study abroad program. ROTC: Army (c), Air Force (c).

Entrance Requirements:

Options: Common Application, electronic application, deferred admission. Required: essay, high school transcript, 1 recommendation, SAT. Recommended: interview. Entrance: moderately difficult. Application deadline: 6/15. Notification: continuous.

Costs Per Year:

Application fee: $35. State resident tuition: $6960 full-time, $290 per credit part-time. Nonresident tuition: $17,610 full-time, $734 per credit part-time. Mandatory fees: $203 full-time. Full-time tuition and fees vary according to course load and program. Part-time tuition varies according to course load and program.

Collegiate Environment:

Orientation program. Most popular organization: Student Council. Major annual events: Jazz in the Mills Series, Cultural Connections, New England Voices poetry series. Campus security: late night transport-escort service. College housing not available. UNH Manchester Library plus 1 other with 32,261 books, 11,397 microform titles, 259 serials, 1,979 audiovisual materials, an OPAC, and a Web page. 47 computers available on campus for general student use. Computer purchase/lease plans available. A campuswide network can be accessed from off-campus. Staffed computer lab on campus.

New Hampshire

1 Location and Size

2 Topography

3 Climate

4 Plants and Animals

5 Environmental Protection

6 Population

7 Ethnic Groups

8 Languages

9 Religions

10 Transportation

11 History

12 State Government

13 Political Parties

14 Local Government

15 Judicial System

16 Migration

17 Economy

18 Income

19 Industry

20 Labor

21 Agriculture

22 Domesticated Animals

23 Fishing

24 Forestry

25 Mining

26 Energy and Power

27 Commerce

28 Public Finance

29 Taxation

30 Health

31 Housing

32 Education

33 Arts

34 Libraries and Museums

35 Communications

36 Press

37 Tourism, Travel & Recreation

38 Sports

39 Famous New Hampshirites

40 Bibliography

State of Hampshire

ORIGIN OF STATE NAME: Named for the English county of Hampshire.

NICKNAME : The Granite State.

CAPITAL: Concord.

ENTERED UNION: 21 June 1788 (9th).

OFFICIAL SEAL: In the center is a broadside view of the frigate Raleigh; in the left foreground is a granite boulder; in the background is a rising sun. A laurel wreath and the words “Seal of the State of New Hampshire 1776” surround the whole.

FLAG: The state seal, surrounded by laurel leaves with nine stars interspersed, is centered on a blue field.

EMBLEM: Within an elliptical panel appears a replica of the Old Man of the Mountain, with the state name above and motto below.

MOTTO: Live Free or Die.

SONG: “Old New Hampshire.”

FLOWER: Purple lilac.

TREE: White birch.

ANIMAL: White-tailed deer.

BIRD: Purple finch.

INSECT: Ladybug; Karner blue (butterfly).

GEM: Smoky quartz.

SPORT: Skiing.

LEGAL HOLIDAYS: New Year’s Day, 1 January; Civil Rights Day and Birthday of Martin Luther King Jr., 3rd Monday in January; Presidents’ Day, 3rd Monday in February; Memorial Day, last Monday in May; Independence Day, 4 July; Labor Day, 1st Monday in September; Columbus Day, 2nd Monday in October; Election Day, Tuesday following 1st Monday in November in even-numbered years; Veterans’ Day, 11 November; Thanksgiving Day, 4th Thursday in November plus the day after; Christmas Day, 25 December.

TIME: 7 AM EST = noon GMT.

1 Location and Size

Situated in New England in the northeastern United States, New Hampshire ranks 44th in size among the 50 states. The total area of New Hampshire is 9,279 square miles (24,033 square kilometers), including 8,993 square miles (23,292 square kilometers) of land and 286 square miles (741 square kilometers) of inland water. The state has a maximum extension of 93 miles (150 kilometers) from east to west and 180 miles (290 kilometers) from north to south. The state’s total boundary line is 555 miles (893 kilometers). The three southernmost Isles of Shoals in the Atlantic belong to New Hampshire.

2 Topography

New Hampshire is generally hilly, rocky, and in many areas densely wooded. The three major regions of New Hampshire are the coastal lowland in the southeast; the New England Uplands, covering most of the south and west; and the White Mountains (part of the Appalachian chain) in the north. The latter includes Mount Washington, which at 6,288 feet (1,918 meters) is the highest peak in the northeastern United States.

There are some 1,300 lakes and ponds, of which the largest is Lake Winnipesaukee, covering 70 square miles (181 square kilometers). Principal rivers include the Connecticut (forming the border with Vermont), Merrimack, Piscataqua, and Saco. Near the coast are the nine rocky Isles of Shoals, three of which belong to New Hampshire.

The Old Man of the Mountain was once one the state’s distinctive geographic features. It was a rock formation resembling the profile of a man’s face jutting from the edge of a cliff in Franconia Notch State Park. Discovered in 1805, it later became part of the State Emblem. However, the rocks fell from the cliff on 3 May 2003.

3 Climate

New Hampshire has wide variations in daily and seasonal temperatures. Summers are short and cool and winters are long and cold. The temperature in Concord ranges from 21°f (-6°c) in January to 70°f (21°c) in July. The record low temperature was -46°f (-43°c), set at Pittsburgh on 28 January 1925. The all-time high was 106°f (41°c), set at Nashua on 4 July 1911.

New Hampshire Population Profile

Population by Age Group

Annual precipitation at Concord averages 37.6 inches (95.5 centimeters). The average snowfall in the mountains is more than 100 inches (254 centimeters) per year. In Concord, annual snowfall is about 65 inches (165 centimeters). The strongest wind ever recorded, other than during a tornado, was 231 miles per hour (372 kilometers per hour), occurring on Mount Washington on 12 April 1934.

4 Plants and Animals

New Hampshire supports an abundance of elm, maple, beech, oak, pine, and fir trees. Among wildflowers, three orchids are considered rare. In 2006, three New Hampshire plant species were listed as threatened or endangered: the small whorled pogonia was threatened and Jesup’s milk-vetch and Northeastern bulrush were endangered. Among native New Hampshire mammals are the white-tailed deer, muskrat, beaver, porcupine, and snowshoe hare. In 2006, the US Fish and Wildlife Service listed nine animal species as threatened or endangered, including the Karner blue butterfly, bald eagle, dwarf wedgemussel, finback whale, and leatherback sea turtle.

5 Environmental Protection

State agencies concerned with environmental protection include the Fish and Game Department, the Department of Resources and Economic Development (DRED), and the Department of Environmental Services (DES). DRED oversees the state’s forests, lands and parks. DES was created in 1987 to protect the environmental quality of air, groundwater, surface waters, and solid waste.

In 2003, New Hampshire had 91 hazardous waste sites listed in the Environmental Protection Agency’s database, 20 of which were on the National Priorities List as of 2006.

6 Population

In 2005, New Hampshire ranked 41st in population among the 50 states with an estimated total of 1,314,895 residents. The population is projected to reach 1.58 million by 2025. The population density in 2004 was 144.9 persons per square mile (55.9 persons per square kilometer). Also in 2004, the median age was 39.1 years. In 2005, about 12% of all residents were 65 and older while 24% were 18 and younger.

Leading cities include Manchester, with 109,691 residents in 2005, Nashua, 87,321, and Concord (the capital), with 42,336 residents in 2005.

7 Ethnic Groups

According to the 2000 census, 223,026 New Hampshire residents were of English ancestry, 180,947 were of French descent, and 180,947 were Irish. There are also about 127,153 French Canadians. Nearly 20,489 residents were Hispanic, 15,931 were Asians, 9,035 residents were black Americans, 2,964 were Native Americans, and 371 were Pacific Islanders. About 54,154 people, or 4.4% of the total population, were foreign born.

In 2006, estimates indicated that 2.2% of the population was Hispanic or Latino, 1.8% was Asian, and 0.8% was black American.

New Hampshire Population by Race

Census 2000 was the first national census in which the instructions to respondents said, “Mark one or more races.” This table shows the number of people who are of one, two, or three or more races. For those claiming two races, the number of people belonging to the various categories is listed. The U.S. government conducts a census of the population every ten years.

8 Languages

New Hampshire speech is essentially Northern. Regional terms include luckybone (wishbone) and eavespouts (gutters). Canadian French is heard in the northern region. In 2000, 91.7% of all state residents aged five and above spoke only English at home. About 39,551 residents spoke French at home and 18,647 spoke Spanish.

9 Religions

The first settlers of New Hampshire were Separatists, precursors of the modern Congregationalists (United Church of Christ) and their first church was probably built around 1633. The first Episcopal church was built in 1638 and the first Quaker meetinghouse was built in 1701.

In 2004, Roman Catholics were the largest single Christian denomination with about 327,353 adherents. In 2005, the United Church of Christ had 25,794 members. Other leading Protestant denominations (with 2000 membership data) include the United Methodist Church, 18,927; the American Baptist Churches–USA, 16,359; and the Episcopal Church, 16,148. There were about 10,020 Jews and 3,782 Muslims throughout the state. About 52.3% of the population was not counted as members of any religious organization.

10 Transportation

New Hampshire’s first railroad, between Nashua and Lowell, Massachusetts, was chartered in 1835 and opened in 1838. Two years later, Exeter and Boston were linked by rail. In 2003, the state had 473 rail miles (761 kilometers).

In 2003, the state had a total of 15,628 miles (25,161 kilometers) of roads. The main north–south highway is I-93. As of 2004, there were 668,000 automobiles, 491,000 trucks, 66,000 motorcycles, and 1,000 buses registered in the state, as well as 985,775 licensed drivers. New Hampshire had 51 airports, 67 heliports, and 9 seaplane bases. The main airport is Manchester Municipal Airport, which had 1,973,142 enplanements in 2004. Portsmouth is the state’s primary port.

11 History

When the first Europeans arrived in present-day New Hampshire, its Native American inhabitants, called Pennacook, were organized in a loose confederation centered along the Merrimack Valley. The coast of New England was explored by Dutch, English, and French navigators throughout the 16th century. The first English settlement was established along the Piscataqua River in 1623. From 1643 to 1680, New Hampshire was a province of Massachusetts, and the boundary between them was not settled until 1740. By 1760, the Pennacook had been forced out of the region.

By the first quarter of the 18th century, Portsmouth, the provincial capital, had become a thriving commercial port. Although nearly 18,500 New Hampshire men enlisted in the Revolutionary War, no battle was fought within its boundaries. New Hampshire was the first of the original 13 colonies to establish an independent government—on 5 January 1776, six months before the Declaration of Independence.

During the 19th century, as overseas trade became less important to the New Hampshire economy, shoe and textile mills were built. These were established principally along the Merrimack River. So great was the demand for workers in these mills that immigrant labor was imported during the 1850s. A decade later, French Canadian workers began pouring south from Quebec. Although industry thrived, agriculture did not. New Hampshire hill farms could not compete against Midwestern farms. The population in farm towns dropped, and the people who remained began to cluster in small village centers.

The 20th Century World War I marked a turning point for New Hampshire industry. As wartime demand fell off, the state’s old textile mills were unable to compete with newer cotton mills in the South, and New Hampshire’s mill towns became as depressed as its farm towns. Only in the north, the center for logging and paper manufacturing, did state residents continue to enjoy moderate prosperity. The collapse of the state’s railroad network spelled further trouble for the slumping economy. The growth of tourism aided the rural areas primarily, as old farms became spacious vacation homes for “summer people,” who in some cases paid the bulk of local property taxes.

During the 1960s, New Hampshire’s economic decline began to reverse, except in agriculture. In the 1970s and early 1980s, Boston’s urban sprawl, interstate highway construction, and low New Hampshire taxes encouraged people and industry—notably high-technology businesses—to move into southern New Hampshire. The state’s population almost doubled between 1960 and 1988, from 606,921 to 1.1 million. The rise in population strained government services, prompted an increase in local taxes, and provoked concern over the state’s vanishing open spaces.

In September 2000, New Hampshire Chief Justice David Brock faced an unprecedented trial on multiple charges, resulting in his impeachment. Brock was the first New Hampshire official impeached in 210 years. However, he resigned before the trial and was acquitted in October 2000.

Like other New England states in the early 2000s, New Hampshire faced record-breaking budget deficits. Republican governor Craig Benson vetoed the 2003 two-year budget passed by the state legislature. Benson said the budget would increase the deficit and raise taxes. Democrat John Lynch, who was inaugurated as New Hampshire’s governor in January 2005, put his attention to improving education, reducing health care costs, protecting the environment, and creating good jobs. Lynch began his second term in January 2007.

12 State Government

New Hampshire’s constitution, adopted in 1784 and revised in 1792, is the second-oldest state governing document still in effect. Every 10 years, the people vote on a question of calling a convention to revise it. The constitution had been amended 143 times by January 2005.

The General Court—the state legislature—consists of a 24-member senate and a 400-seat house of representatives (larger than that of any other state). Legislators serve two-year terms. The only executive elected statewide is the governor, who serves for two years and who is assisted by a five-member executive council, which must approve all administrative and judicial appointments. A bill becomes law if signed by the governor, if passed by the legislature and left unsigned by the governor for five days while the legislature is in session, or if a governor’s veto is overridden by two-thirds of the legislators present in each house.

State legislators were paid $200 for their terms ($100 per year) and the governor’s salary was $96,060 in 2004.

13 Political Parties

New Hampshire has almost always gone with the Republican presidential nominee in recent decades, but the Democratic and Republican parties have been much more evenly balanced in local and state elections. New Hampshire’s presidential primary, the second state primary of the campaign season after Iowa, places New Hampshirites in the political spotlight every four years. In the 1992 presidential election, New Hampshire voters defied their tradition and chose Democrat Bill Clinton over Republican incumbent George H. W. Bush by a scant 6,556 votes. Clinton carried the state again in 1996. In the 2000 elections, Republican George W. Bush received 48% of the votes and Democrat Al Gore received 47%. In 2004, Bush won 40.3% of the vote, but the Democratic challenger John Kerry won 49%.

As of 2006, both of New Hampshire’s US senators, Judd Gregg and John Sununu, were Republicans. Following the 2006 midterm elections,

New Hampshire Governors: 1776–2007

Democrats held both US House seats. In 2006, Democrat John Lynch was reelected governor. The New Hampshire state senate following the 2006 elections had 14 Democrats and 10 Republicans, and the state house had 239 Democrats and 161 Republicans. One hundred twenty-nine women won election to the state legislature in 2006, or 30.4%.

14 Local Government

New Hampshire has 10 counties, each governed by three commissioners. Other elected county officials include the sheriff, attorney, treasurer, and registrar of deeds. As of 2005, New Hampshire also had 13 municipalities, 221 townships, 178 public school districts, and 148 special districts. Most municipalities have elected mayors and councils. The basic unit of town government is the traditional town meeting.

15 Judicial System

The state’s highest court, the supreme court, consists of a chief justice and four associate justices. The main trial court is the superior court. The state’s violent crime rate in 2004 was 167 per 100,000 persons. Crimes against property were reported at a rate of about 2,040 per 100,000 people. In December 2004, there were 2,448 inmates in state and federal prisons. New Hampshire imposes the death penalty but had executed only one person since 1930 as of 2006. As of 1 January 2006, there were no inmates under sentence of death.

16 Migration

From the time of the first European settlement until the middle of the 19th century, the population of New Hampshire was primarily of British origin. Subsequently, immigrants from Quebec and from Ireland, Italy, and other countries began arriving in significant numbers. New Hampshire’s population growth since 1960 has been fueled by migrants from other states.

Between 1990 and 1998, New Hampshire had net gains of 19,000 in domestic migration and 6,000 in international migration. In the period 1995–2000, 162,250 people moved into the state and 134,347 moved out, for a net gain of 27,903, many of whom came from Massachusetts. For the period 2000–05, net international migration was 11,107 and net internal migration was 40,861 for a net gain of 51,968 people.

17 Economy

New Hampshire is one of the most industrialized states in the United States, ranking well above the national median in the proportion of the labor force employed in manufacturing. Between 1977 and 1982, manufacturing employment rose 13%, to 107,500, as many high-technology firms moved into the southern portion of the state. Since World War II, tourism has been one of the state’s fastest growing sources of income.

Coming into the 21st century, the state’s economy was booming, posting annual growth rates of 8.2% in 1998, 7% in 1999, and 9.3% in 2000. However, due to the large growth of information technology related jobs in southern New Hampshire in the 1990s, this was the region of New England that saw the greatest fall in personal income in 2000–02. In 2004, there were about 4,865 new businesses established while 5,401 businesses were closed.

New Hampshire Presidential Vote by Major Political Parties, 1948–2004

18 Income

In 2005, New Hampshire had a gross state product (GSP) of $56 billion, ranking 39th among the 50 states and the District of Columbia. In 2004, New Hampshire ranked seventh among the 50 states and the District of Columbia with a per capita (per person) income of $36,616; the national average was $33,050. The average median household income for 2002–04 was $57,352 compared to the national average of $44,473. For the same period, 5.7% of the population lived below the federal poverty level, compared to the national average of 12.4%.

19 Industry

The value of shipments by manufacturers in 2004 was over $15 billion. Of that total, computer and electronic equipment accounted for the largest share at $3.9 billion. It was followed by machinery at $1.8 billion and fabricated metal products at $1.6 billion.

20 Labor

In April 2006, the civilian labor force in New Hampshire numbered 735,300. Approximately 24,700 workers were unemployed, yielding an unemployment rate of 3.4%, compared to the national average of 4.7% for the same period. In 2006, 4.8% of the labor force was employed in construction; 12% in manufacturing; 22.1% in trade, transportation, and public utilities; 6.3% in financial activities; 9.5% in professional and business services; 15.7% in education and health services; 9.9% in leisure and hospitality services, and 13.9% in government.

In 2005, some 65,000 of New Hampshire’s 627,000 employed wage and salary workers were members of unions, representing 10.4% of those so employed. The national average was 12%.

21 Agriculture

Only Rhode Island and Alaska generate less income from farming than New Hampshire. Farm income in 2005 was $168 million, 56% of which was in crops.

In 2004, there were about 3,400 farms occupying about 450,000 acres (182,000 hectares). Leading crops are hay and commercial apples.

22 Domesticated Animals

Dairy and poultry products are the mainstays of New Hampshire’s agriculture. In 2003, the state had 16,000 milk cows, with a total milk yield of 305 million pounds (139 million kilograms). Poultry items included 1,183,000 pounds

(536,599 kilograms) of chickens, sold for $28,000; 132,000 pounds (59,874 kilograms) of turkey, valued at $224,000, and 43 million eggs, valued at $3.2 million.

23 Fishing

New Hampshire’s commercial catch in 2004 consisted of 21.9 million pounds (about 10 million kilograms), worth $8.8 million. Most of the catch includes cod and lobster. In 2003, the state had 3 processing and 20 wholesale plants with about 497 employees. The commercial fleet in 2001 had about 580 boats and vessels. The state sponsors six hatcheries. The Nashua National Fish Hatchery is also located in the state. In 2004, the state issued 143,835 sport fishing licenses.

24 Forestry

New Hampshire had 4,824,000 acres (1,952,000 hectares) of forestland in 2004, of which 4,503,000 acres (1,822,000 hectares) were considered suitable for commercial use. Of that total, 83% was privately owned. Forests cover about 84% of New Hampshire. Lumber production in 2004 was 232 million board feet.

25 Mining

The value of nonfuel mineral production in New Hampshire in 2003 was estimated to be $63.9 million. Construction sand and gravel remained the state’s most important nonfuel mineral in 2003, accounting for about 69% of total value. According to preliminary figures, the state mined 9.1 million metric tons of construction sand and gravel and 3.89 million metric tons of crushed stone. Dimension stone and gemstones are collected by hobbyists. Sand and gravel are mined in every county and dimension granite is quarried in Hillsborough, Merrimack, and Coos counties.

26 Energy and Power

In 2003, about 43% of the state’s electricity came from nuclear power, 19.3% came from gas-fired plants, and 18.2% came from coal-fired plants. The remainder came from hydroelectric and petroleum-fired plants. Power production (utility and nonutility) totaled 21.5 billion kilowatt hours in 2003. As of 2003, the Seabrook nuclear power plant had a capacity of 1,159 megawatts and was the largest reactor in New England. New Hampshire has no proven reserves or production of crude oil or natural gas.

27 Commerce

New Hampshire’s wholesale sales totaled $13.7 billion for 2002; retail sales were $20.8 billion. Foreign exports of goods totaled $2.5 billion in 2005.

28 Public Finance

The New Hampshire state budget is drawn up biennially by the Department of Administrative Services and then submitted by the governor to the legislature for amendment and approval. The fiscal year runs from 1 July to 30 June.

Revenues for 2004 were $6.1 billion and total expenditures were $5.6 billion. The largest general expenditures were for education ($1.6 billion), public welfare ($1.4 billion), and highways ($374 million). The state debt was $5.8 billion, or about $4,537.42 per capita.

29 Taxation

New Hampshire has no state general sales tax. Income tax is limited to dividend and interest income only. The state does levy a flat 8.5% corporate income tax on net corporate income. The state also imposes excise taxes on motor fuels tobacco products, and other selected items. Most property taxes are collected locally.

The state collected $2 billion in taxes in 2005, of which 34.9% came from the selective sales taxes, 19.4% from state property taxes, and 23.6% from corporate net income taxes. Other taxes accounted for the remainder. In 2005, New Hampshire ranked 48th among the states in terms of per capita tax burden at $1,544 per person, compared to the national average of $2,192 per person.

30 Health

In 2005, infant mortality stood at 5.4 per 1,000 live births. The crude death rate in 2003 was 7.5 per 1,000 population. As of 2002, death rates for major causes of death (per 100,000 resident population) included heart disease, 217.7; cancer, 198.3; cerebrovascular diseases, 49.2; chronic lower respiratory diseases, 45.3; and diabetes, 24.4. As of 2004, about 21.6% of residents were smokers. In 2004, the reported acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) cases rate was at about 3.2 per 100,000.

New Hampshire’s 28 community hospitals had 2,800 beds in 2003. There were 267 physicians per 100,000 residents in 2004 and 932 nurses per 100,000 in 2005. In 2004, there were about 795 dentists in the state. The average expense for community hospital care was $1,389 per inpatient day in 2003. In 2004, at least 11% of New Hampshire’s residents were uninsured.

31 Housing

In 2004, there were 575,671 housing units in New Hampshire, 491,589 of which were occupied; 72.6% were owner-occupied. About 62.8% of all units were single-family, detached homes. Fuel oil and kerosene were the most common heating energy sources. It was estimated that 8,724 units lacked telephone service, 2,770 lacked complete plumbing facilities, and 2,725 lacked complete kitchen facilities. The average household size was 2.57 people.

In 2004, some 8,700 new privately owned units were authorized for construction. The median home value was $216,639. The median monthly cost for mortgage owners was $1,472, while renters paid a median of $810 per month.

32 Education

In 2004, 90.8% of New Hampshire residents age 25 and older were high school graduates and 35.4% had obtained a bachelor’s degree or higher, surpassing the national average of 26%.

Total public school enrollment was estimated at 208,000 in fall 2002. Enrollment in nonpublic schools in fall 2003 was 23,692. Expenditures for public education in 2003/04 were estimated at $2.1 billion.

As of fall 2002, there were 68,523 students enrolled in college or graduate school. In 2005, New Hampshire had 25 degree-granting institutions. The best known institution of higher education is Dartmouth College, which originated in Connecticut in 1754 as Moor’s Indian Charity School and was established at Hanover in 1769. When the state of New Hampshire attempted to amend Dartmouth’s charter to make the institution public in the early 19th century, the US Supreme Court handed down a precedent-setting ruling prohibiting state violation of contract rights. The University of New Hampshire, the leading public institution, was founded at Hanover in 1866 and relocated at Durham in 1891. The university also has a campus in Manchester. Other colleges include Franklin Pierce College, Keene State College, and Southern New Hampshire University.

33 Arts

Hopkins Center at Dartmouth College features musical events throughout the year. Theeater by the Sea at Portsmouth presents classical and modern plays and there is a year-round student theater at Dartmouth. Ballet groups include Ballet New England in Portsmouth, City Center Ballet in Lebanon, Granite State Ballet Company in Nashua, and Petit Papillon in Concord. Opera groups include the Granite State Opera in Temple, Opera North in Hanover, and OPERAFEST! of NH, based at the Adams Memorial Opera House in Derry. Classical music groups include the Nashua Chamber Orchestra, the Nashua Symphony Orchestra, the Granite State Symphony in Concord, Lakes Region Symphony Orchestra in Meredith, the New England Wind Ensemble in Franklin, and the New Hampshire Philharmonic Orchestra and New Hampshire Symphony Orchestra (both in Manchester).

The New Hampshire Music Festival in Center Harbor serves as a year-round educational institute and performing arts center and sponsors an annual summer festival featuring the New Hampshire Music Festival Orchestra. Monadnock Music in Peterborough is an organization sponsoring a variety of musical programs, including an annual summer festival featuring the Monadnock Chorus and Orchestra.

New Hampshire’s poet laureate for 2006–09 is Patricia Fargnoli. The artist laureate as of 2006 was James Aponovich, an internationally acclaimed still-life painter and teacher at the New Hampshire Institute of Art.

The New Hampshire State Council on the Arts supports many arts programs with state and federal funding. New Hampshire has about 275 statewide arts associations and 8 local arts councils. The New Hampshire Humanities Council sponsors a number of ongoing programs and an annual summer Chautauqua.

In 2005, New Hampshire arts organizations received seven grants totaling $682,100 from the National Endowment for the Arts. The same year, the National Endowment for the Humanities awarded eight grants totaling $743,861 for state programs.

34 Libraries and Museums

In 2001, New Hampshire had 229 public library systems with a total book and serial publication stock of 5.5 million volumes and a combined circulation of 8.6 million volumes. Leading academic and historical collections include the Dartmouth College Baker Memorial Library in Hanover, the New Hampshire State Library, the New Hampshire Historical Society Library, and the University of New Hampshire Ezekiel W. Diamond Library. Among the more than 76 museums and historic sites are the Museum of New Hampshire History in Concord and the Franklin Pierce Homestead in Hillsboro. The Old Man of the Mountain in Franconia Notch State Park contains images and stories about the rock formation that was a popular tourist site until it was damaged by rockslides in 2003.

35 Communications

In 2004, 96.4% of New Hampshire’s occupied housing units had telephones. The same year, there were about 686,746 mobile phone subscribers. In 2005, the state had 32 major radio stations (7 AM, 25 FM) and 5 television stations. State residents also receive broadcasts from neighboring Massachusetts, Vermont, and Maine. In 2003, about 71.5% of all households had a personal computer and 65.2% had access to the Internet. A total of 38,887 Internet domain names were registered in the state in 2000.

36 Press

In 2005, New Hampshire had eight morning newspapers, four evening newspapers, and eight Sunday papers. The best known newspaper in the state is Manchester’s The Union–Leader (59,384 daily and 81,144 Sunday), published by conservative William Loeb until his death in 1981. In the capital, the Concord Monitor circulates 20,107 papers daily and 22,747 on Sundays. The Dover Foster’s Daily Democrat has a circulation of 22,720 for its weekday evening edition and 27,728 for the Sunday edition. The Nashua Telegraph has a circulation of 25,566 daily and 32,672 Sundays.

37 Tourism, Travel & Recreation

Tourism is a major part of the economy of New Hampshire. It has been estimated that the industry brings in revenues of about $8.6 billion per year and sponsors over 65,000 jobs.

Skiing, camping, hiking, and boating are the main outdoor attractions. Other attractions include Strawbery Banke, a restored village in Portsmouth; Daniel Webster’s birthplace near Franklin; and the Mount Washington Cog Railway.

38 Sports

There are no major league professional sports teams in New Hampshire. Major national and international skiing events are frequently held in the state, as are such other winter competitions as snowmobile races and the Annual World Championship Sled Dog Derby in Laconia.

Thoroughbred, harness, and greyhound racing are warm weather spectator sports. The annual Whaleback Yacht Race is held in early August.

Dartmouth College competes in the Ivy League and the University of New Hampshire belongs to the America East Conference, both Division I-AA Conferences.

The New Hampshire International Speedway, which opened in Loudon in 1994, plays host to a NASCAR Winston Cup stock car race in July and September.

39 Famous New Hampshirites

Born in Hillsboro, Franklin Pierce (1804–1869) was the only US chief executive to come from New Hampshire, serving from 1853 to 1857 as the nation’s 14th president. Henry Wilson (Jeremiah Jones Colbath, 1812–1875), US vice president from 1873 to 1875, was a native of Farmington.

US Supreme Court chief justices Salmon P. Chase (1808–1873) and Harlan Fiske Stone (1872–1946) were New Hampshirites. US cabinet members from New Hampshire included Henry Dearborn (1751–1829), secretary of war; and Daniel Webster (1782–1852), secretary of state. Josiah Bartlett (b.Massachusetts, 1729–1795) was a physician, governor, and signer of the Declaration of Independence.

Other figures of note are educator Eleazar Wheelock (b.Connecticut, 1711–1779), the founder of Dartmouth College; the founder of Christian Science, Mary Baker Eddy (1821–1910); George Whipple (1878–1976), winner of the 1934 Nobel Prize for physiology/medicine; and labor organizer and US Communist Party leader Elizabeth Gurley Flynn (1890–1964).

Horace Greeley (1811–1872), Charles Dana (1819–1897), Alice Brown (1857–1948), and J(erome) D(avid) Salinger (b.New York, 1919) are among the prose writers and editors who have lived in New Hampshire. Poets include Edward Arlington Robinson (b.Maine, 1869–1935). More recent celebrities include astronaut Alan B. Shepard, Jr. (1923–1998).

40 Bibliography

BOOKS

Bristow, M. J. State Songs of America. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2000.

Dubois, Muriel L. New Hampshire Facts and Symbols. Rev. ed. Mankato, MN: Capstone, 2003.

Harris, Patricia. New Hampshire: The Spirit of America. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2000. Heinrichs, Ann. New Hampshire. Minneapolis, MN: Compass Point Books, 2004.

Murray, Julie. New Hampshire. Edina, MN: Abdo Publishing, 2006.

Stacker, Ann P., and Nancy C. Hefferman. Short History of New Hampshire. Grantham, NH: Thompson and Rutter, 1985.

Stein, R. Conrad. New Hampshire. New York: Children’s Press, 2000.

Thomas, William. New Hampshire. Milwaukee, WI: Gareth Stevens, 2007.

Whitehurst, Susan. The Colony of New Hampshire. New York: PowerKids Press, 2000.

WEB SITES

New Hampshire Division of Travel & Tourism Development. New Hampshire. www.visitnh.gov/ (accessed March 1, 2007).

State of New Hampshire. Welcome to NH.gov. www.nh.gov/ (accessed March 1, 2007).

Visit New England. New Hampshire. www.visit-newhampshire.com/ (accessed March 1, 2007).

NEW HAMPSHIRE

STATE EDUCATION OFFICE

Susan McKevitt, Interim Adm., Vocational-Tech. Education
New Hampshire School-to-Work Initiative
101 Pleasant St.
Concord, NH 03301-3860
(603)271-7977

STATE REGULATORY INFORMATION

Every private, commercial, correspondence, trade, or other school charging tuition or fees, which gives pre-employment or supplementary training or both, is required to register and obtain a license to conduct such business from the Postsecondary Education Commission. The license is issued under regulations promulgated by the Postsecondary Education Commission.
The Postsecondary Education Commission established minimum criteria such as financial stability, educational program, administrative and staff qualifications, business procedures, facilities and equipment, and ethical practices.
Before such licenses are issued to any institution, a performance bond (minimum $10,000, maximum $200,000) must be filed with the Postsecondary Education Commission. If any institution licensed fails to provide services called for, with a resident of the State as determined by court or jurisdiction, or both, the school shall forfeit and shall be considered as justice and circumstances require. Every contract that purports to provide a State resident to pay money to private trade, commercial, correspondence, or other school in return for training is voidable by either party until the end of the third day of business after the day the contract was formalized.
Licenses will be issued only to those schools in which there is a sound financial structure with sufficient resources for the proper use and support of the school; further, it is mandatory that the applicant has sufficient number of training facilities; employs a sufficient number of qualified instructors; the conditions under which the students work and study are healthful, sanitary, and safe; courses and curriculum are of quality in content; and living quarters maintained for the students are sanitary and safe. Every applicant is required to furnish the Postsecondary Education Commission a catalog or brochure with identifying data of the school, its policy relative to leave of absences, the grading system of the school, student conduct, detailed schedule of fees, charges, and tuitions for supplies, tools, and other charges, policy on refund of any unused portion of tuition, and the policy of the school relative to granting credit for any previous training.
Each instructor is required to meet one of the following qualifications: (1) possession of a bachelor's degree from an acceptable college or university in the field in which he is to teach, (2) possess a valid adult or secondary school teaching credential, (3) five years of successful experience and be recognized as a tradesman or specialist in the profession, trade, industry, or technical occupation in the field in which his is to teach, or (4) five years of a license to teach issued by the appropriate State licensing board or agency for the field in which he expects to teach.
All contracts are required to include in bold-face type the following statement:
"You are entitled to cancel this agreement before midnight of the third business day after the date of signature of this agreement by sending a written notice of cancellation to the seller by certified mail, return-receipt requested (Saturday shall not be considered a business day)."

AMHERST

Granite State Dog Training Center

90 Rte. 101-A, Amherst, NH 03031. Trade and Technical. Founded 1996. Contact: Jim Ward, Owner/Master Trainer, (603)672-3647, Fax: (603)883-7362, E-mail: jim@gsdtc.com, Web Site: http://www.gsdtc.com/. Private. Coed. HS diploma required. Out-of-state students accepted. Housing not available. Term: Varies with Program. Tuition: $3,500-$8,500. Enrollment: Total 8. Degrees awarded: Certificate. Accreditation: ACCSCT. Handicapped facilities available. Curriculum: Pet Grooming (15 Wk); Dog Training (9 Wk)

BEDFORD

Michael's School of Hair Design and Esthetics

73 S. River Rd., Ste. 26, Bedford, NH 03110-6758. Cosmetology. Founded 1972. Contact: Donna Coveno, Admissions Coordinator, (603)668-4300, (603)668-4380, Fax: (603)668-6620, E-mail: mshde@juno.com. Private. Coed. HS diploma required. Out-of-state students accepted. Housing available. Term: Varies with Program. Tuition: $7,845 cosmetology/barbering, $5,945 esthetics. Enrollment: Total 70. Degrees awarded: Diploma. Accreditation: NACCAS. Approved: Vet. Admin. Financial aid available. Placement service available. Handicapped facilities not available. Curriculum: Barbering (1500 Hr); Beauty (600 Hr); Cosmetology (1500 Hr); Cosmetology Instructor; Cosmetology - Refresher; Manicurist

BERLIN

New Hampshire Community Technical College (Berlin)

2020 Riverside Dr., Berlin, NH 03570. Two-Year College. Founded 1966. Contact: Mark Desmarais, Dir. of Admissions, (603)752-1113, 800-445-4525, Fax: (603)752-6335, E-mail: mdesmarais@nhctc.edu, berlin4u@nhctc.edu, Web Site: http://www.berlin.nhctc.edu. Public. Coed. HS diploma required. Out-of-state students accepted. Housing available. Term: Semester. Tuition: $148/credit (in-state); $222/credit (NERSP); $340/credit (out-of-state). Enrollment: men 520, women 1,036. Degrees awarded: Certificate, Associate, Diploma. Approved: Vet. Admin. Financial aid available. Placement service available. Handicapped facilities available. Curriculum: Accounting, General; Automotive Service; Automotive Technology; Business Administration; Computer Information Science; Computer Technology; Criminal Justice; Culinary Arts; Diesel Technology; Early Childhood Education; Engineering Technology; Environmental Technology; Forestry Technology; General Studies; Health Technology; Human Services; Liberal Arts; Medical Transcription; Microcomputers; Nurse, Assistant; Nursing, R.N.; Office Technology; Surveying; Tractor Trailer Operators Training

CHESTER

Chester College of New England

40 Chester St., Chester, NH 03036. Art. Founded 1965. Contact: Sarah Vogell, Dir. of Admissions, (603)887-4401, (603)887-7400, 800-974-6372, Fax: (603)887-1777, E-mail: svogell@chestercollege.edu, admissions@ chestercollege.edu, Web Site: http://www.chestercollege.edu. Private. Coed. HS diploma required. Out-of-state students accepted. Housing available. Term: Semester. Tuition: $13,900; room and board $5,750 to $7,400; part-time $465/credit hour. Enrollment: Total 130. Degrees awarded: Diploma. Accreditation: NEASC. Approved: Vet. Admin. Financial aid available. Placement service available. Handicapped facilities available. Curriculum: Art, Advertising - Commercial (4 Yr); Communications, Commercial (4 Yr); Graphic Arts (4 Yr); Journalism (4 Yr); Media - Advertising Sales (4 Yr); Photography (4 Yr)

CLAREMONT

New Hampshire Community Technical College (Claremont)

One College Dr., Claremont, NH 03743. Two-Year College. Founded 1967. Contact: Dr. Susan Henderson, VP/Chief Campus Officer, (603)542-7744, 800-837-0658, Fax: (603)543-1844, E-mail: shenderson@nhctc.edu, claremont@nhctc.edu, Web Site: http://www.claremont.nhctc.edu. Public. Coed. HS diploma required. Out-of-state students accepted. Housing not available. Term: Semester. Tuition: $148 per credit in-state. Enrollment: men 170, women 672. Degrees awarded: Certificate, Associate, Diploma. Accreditation: AAMAE; JRCRTE; AOTA; APTA; CAAHEP; NAACLS; ACCSCT; NLNAC. Approved: Vet. Admin. Financial aid available. Placement service available. Handicapped facilities available. Curriculum: Accounting, General (2 Yr); Administrative Assistant (1 Yr); Business Management (2 Yr); Computer Aided Drafting (1 Yr); Computer Business Systems Technology (2 Yr); Early Childhood Education (2 Yr); Emergency Medical Technology (1 Yr); Health Care & Management (1 Yr); Health Information Technology (2 Yr); Human Services (1 Yr); Internet Technologies (1 Yr); Massage Therapy (1 Yr); Medical Assistant (1 Yr); Medical Laboratory Technology (2 Yr); Medical Technology - Phlebotomy (1 Yr); Nursing, Practical (1 Yr); Nursing, R.N. (2 Yr); Occupational Therapy Assistant (2 Yr); Physical Therapy Aide (2 Yr); Respiratory Therapy (2 Yr)

Sugar River Valley Regional Technical Center

111 South St., Claremont, NH 03743. Trade and Technical. Contact: Michael S. Markarian, VP, Education Foundation, (603)543-4291, Web Site: http://www.nefi.com. Private. Coed. HS diploma not required. Out-of-state students accepted. Housing not available. Term: Varies with Program. Tuition: Varies. Degrees awarded: Certificate. Approved: Vet. Admin. Financial aid not available. Placement service available. Handicapped facilities available. Curriculum: Air Conditioning (96 Hr); Gas Technology (80 Hr); Hazardous Waste Technology; Oil Heat Technology (4 Wk); Refrigeration Technology (4 Hr)

CONCORD

Esthetics Institute

20 S. Main St., Concord, NH 03301. Other. Founded 1982. Contact: Judi Montore, (603)224-2211, 800-652-8502, Fax: (603)226-0009, E-mail: info@estheticsinstitute.net, Web Site: http://estheticsinstitute.net. Private. Coed. HS diploma required. Out-of-state students accepted. Housing available. Term: Hour. Enrollment: men 3, women 40. Degrees awarded: Certificate. Accreditation: NACCAS. Approved: Vet. Admin. Financial aid available. Placement service available. Handicapped facilities not available. Curriculum: Beauty (600 Hr); Esthetician (300-600 Hr); Manicurist (300 Hr)

Hesser College - Concord

25 Hall St., Concord, NH 03301. Two-Year College. Founded 1998. Contact: Mary Jo Greco, Pres., (603)225-9200, 800-526-9231, E-mail: admissions@hesser.edu, Web Site: http://www.hesser.edu; Web Site: http://www.hesser.edu/request-info.html. Private. Coed. HS diploma required. Out-of-state students accepted. Housing available. Term: Year. Tuition: $12,340 per year; $1,400 books and supplies. Degrees awarded: Associate, Certificate. Approved: Vet. Admin. Financial aid available. Placement service available. Handicapped facilities available. Curriculum: Accounting, General (2 Yr); Business Administration (2 Yr); Computer Applications (2 Yr); Computer Business Systems Technology (2 Yr); Criminal Justice (2 Yr); Early Childhood Education (2 Yr); Graphic Design (2 Yr); Human Services (2 Yr); Interior Design (2 Yr); Massage Therapy (2 Yr); Medical Assistant (2 Yr); Paralegal (2 Yr); Physical Therapy Aide (2 Yr); Probation and Parole (2 Yr); Public Relations (2 Yr); Radio & Television (2 Yr)

New Hampshire Career Institute

130 Pembroke Road, Concord, NH 03301-5706. Contact: James Snodgrass, Executive director, (603)226-2721, Web Site: http://www.nhcareerinstitute.org. Private. Housing not available. Term: Other. Tuition: $8,200. Degrees awarded: Associate.

New Hampshire Technical Institute

31 College Dr., Concord, NH 03301-7412. Trade and Technical. Contact: Lynn Tolbert Kilchenstein, President, (603)271-6484, (603)271-7134, E-mail: info@nhti.edu, Web Site: http://www.nhti.edu. Public. Housing available. Term: Semester. Tuition: $5,032 in-state; $11,560 out-of-state. Enrollment: Total 770. Degrees awarded: Certificate, Associate.

DOVER

McIntosh College

23 Cataract Ave., Dover, NH 03820. Two-Year College. Founded 1896. Contact: Karen Arnold, Dir. of Admissions, (603)742-1234, 800-624-6867, Fax: (603)742-3755, E-mail: admissions@mcintoshcollege.edu, Web Site: http://www.mcintoshcollege.edu; Web Site: http://contact.mcintoshcollege.edu. Private. Coed. HS diploma required. Out-of-state students accepted. Housing available. Term: Week. Tuition: $10,000. Enrollment: Total 1,318. Degrees awarded: Certificate, Associate. Approved: Vet. Admin. Financial aid available. Placement service available. Handicapped facilities available. Curriculum: Business Management (15 Mo); Criminal Justice (15 Mo); Culinary Arts (15 Mo); Fashion Merchandising (15 Mo); Graphic Design (15 Mo); Massage Therapy (15 Mo); Medical Assistant (15 Mo); Medical Laboratory Technology (15 Mo); Paralegal (15 Mo); Photography (15 Mo)

DURHAM

University of New Hampshire School of Health and Human Services

217 Hewitt Hall, 4 Library Way, Durham, NH 03824. Allied Medical. Founded 1969. Contact: Dr. James McCarthy, Dean, (603)862-1178, Fax: (603)862-3108, E-mail: jfmc@unh.edu, school.hhs@unh.edu, Web Site: http://www.shhs.unh.edu. Public. Coed. HS diploma required. Out-of-state students accepted. Housing available. Term: Semester. Tuition: Varies. Enrollment: men 250, women 950. Accreditation: CAAHEP. Approved: Vet. Admin. Financial aid available. Placement service available. Handicapped facilities available. Curriculum: Communications, Disorders; Communications Technology; Family Living Specialist; Health Care & Management; Nursing, R.N.; Occupational Therapy; Recreation Leadership; Social Work Technology

University of New Hampshire Thompson School of Applied Science

Cole Hall, Durham, NH 03824. Two-Year College. Founded 1895. Contact: Deborah Pack, (603)862-1025, Fax: (603)862-2915, E-mail: tsas.admit@unh.edu, Web Site: http://www.unh.edu/tsas. Public. Coed. HS diploma required. Out-of-state students accepted. Housing available. Term: Semester. Tuition: $7,395 resident; $16,465 nonresident, includes fees. Enrollment: men 240, women 163. Degrees awarded: Associate. Approved: Vet. Admin. Financial aid available. Placement service available. Handicapped facilities available. Curriculum: Animal Science, General (2 Yr); Architectural Technology (2 Yr); Business Management (2 Yr); Community Aid (2 Yr); Construction Management (2 Yr); Dairy Technology (2 Yr); Dietetic Technology (2 Yr); Dietician Training (2 Yr); Forestry Technology (2 Yr); Horse Management (2 Yr); Horticulture (2 Yr); Landscaping (2 Yr); Restaurant Operations (2 Yr); Surveying (2 Yr)

GILMANTON

New Hampshire Center for Canine Studies

PO Box 447, Rte. 107, Gilmanton, NH 03237. Trade and Technical. Founded 1985. Contact: John Wilkens, (603)267-6910, (603)267-6896, E-mail: clairewilkens@ekit.com. Private. Coed. HS diploma not required. Out-of-state students accepted. Housing available. Term: Varies with Program. Tuition: $4,000-$14,000 depending on program. Enrollment: Total 24. Degrees awarded: Certificate. Approved: Vet. Admin. Financial aid not available. Placement service not available. Handicapped facilities not available. Curriculum: Pet Grooming (8 Wk); Dog Training (12 Wk); Kennel Management (8 Wk)

HOOKSETT

DoveStar Institute

50 Whitehall Rd., Hooksett, NH 03106-2104. Trade and Technical. Founded 1973. Contact: Saryna Champagne, (603)669-5104, E-mail: nhdove@ dovestar.edu, info@dovestar.edu, Web Site: http://www.dovestar.edu. Private. Coed. HS diploma not required. Out-of-state students accepted. Housing not available. Term: Varies with Program. Tuition: Varies. Enrollment: Total 200. Degrees awarded: Certificate. Approved: Vet. Admin. Financial aid available. Placement service available. Handicapped facilities available. Curriculum: Hydrotherapy; Massage Therapy (750 Hr)

HUDSON

Continental Academie of Hair Design (Hudson)

102 Derry Rd., Hudson, NH 03051. Cosmetology. Founded 1973. Contact: Suzanne Prince, Education Dir., (603)889-1614, (603)883-2285, Fax: (603)883-9546, E-mail: lurena1@aol.com, Web Site: http://continentalacademie.net; Alida Weergang, Artistic Dir., Web Site: http://continentalacademie.net/info.html. Private. Coed. HS diploma required. Out-of-state students accepted. Housing not available. Term: Month. Tuition: $10,850 plus $650 books and supplies. Enrollment: men 1, women 68. Degrees awarded: Diploma. Accreditation: NACCAS. Approved: Vet. Admin. Financial aid available. Placement service available. Handicapped facilities not available. Curriculum: Cosmetology (10-15 Mo)

Hazmateam, Inc.

12 Kimball Hill Rd., Hudson, NH 03051-3915. Other. Founded 1992. Contact: Leo Traverse, (603)882-1112, Fax: (603)882-6512, E-mail: hazmateam@earthlink.net, Web Site: http://www.hazmateam.com. Private. Coed. HS diploma not required. Out-of-state students accepted. Housing not available. Term: Varies with Program. Tuition: Varies with program. Enrollment: Total 30. Degrees awarded: Certificate. Approved: Vet. Admin. Financial aid not available. Placement service not available. Handicapped facilities not available. Curriculum: Hazardous Waste Technology

New Hampshire Institute for Therapeutic Arts

153 Lowell Rd., Hudson, NH 03051. Other. Founded 1983. Contact: Janet Alexis, Dir., (603)647-3794, (603)882-3022, Fax: (603)598-9101, E-mail: janhita@aol.com, Web Site: http://www.nhita.com; Karen Schilling, Associate Dir.. Private. Coed. HS diploma required. Out-of-state students accepted. Housing not available. Term: Hour. Tuition: $8,900; $1,000 books and supplies. Enrollment: Total 32. Degrees awarded: Certificate. Accreditation: AMTA; COMTA. Approved: Vet. Admin. Financial aid available. Placement service available. Handicapped facilities not available. Curriculum: Massage Therapy (10 Mo)

KEENE

Keene Beauty Academy, Inc.

800 Park Ave., Keene, NH 03431. Cosmetology. Founded 1964. Contact: Kathy Hammond, Administrator/Co-Owner, (603)357-3736, Fax: (603)355-8916, Web Site: http://www.keenebeautyacademy.com. Private. Coed. HS diploma required. Out-of-state students accepted. Housing not available. Term: Hour. Tuition: $11,250 plus $1,250 books and supplies. Enrollment: men 0, women 62. Degrees awarded: Diploma. Accreditation: NACCAS. Approved: Vet. Admin. Financial aid available. Placement service available. Handicapped facilities available. Curriculum: Cosmetology (1500 Hr)

LACONIA

Empire Beauty School (Laconia)

556 Main St., Laconia, NH 03246-3450. Cosmetology. Founded 1962. Contact: Sue Rawley, (603)524-8777, 800-223-3271, Fax: (603)528-5072, E-mail: ebs@worldpath.net, Web Site: http://www.empire.edu. Private. Coed. HS diploma required. Out-of-state students accepted. Housing not available. Term: Hour. Tuition: $12,000. Enrollment: Total 129. Degrees awarded: Diploma. Accreditation: NACCAS. Approved: Vet. Admin. Financial aid available. Placement service available. Handicapped facilities not available. Curriculum: Cosmetology; Cosmetology Instructor; Manicurist

New Hampshire Community Technical College (Laconia)

379 Belmont Rd., Laconia, NH 03246. Two-Year College. Founded 1967. Contact: Wayne D. Fraser, Dir. of Admissions, (603)524-3207, 800-357-2992, Fax: (603)524-8084, E-mail: wfraser@nhctc.edu, craymond@nhctc.edu, Web Site: http://www.laconia.nhctc.edu; Cathy Raymond, Admissions Secretary, E-mail: craymond@nhctc.edu. Public. Coed. HS diploma required. Out-of-state students accepted. Housing not available. Term: Semester. Enrollment: men 600, women 400. Degrees awarded: Certificate, Associate, Diploma. Approved: Vet. Admin. Financial aid available. Placement service available. Handicapped facilities available. Curriculum: Accounting, General (2 Yr); Automotive Technology (2 Yr); Business Management (2 Yr); Computer Technology (2 Yr); Electrical Construction (2 Yr); Electricity, Industrial (2 Yr); Fire Science (2 Yr); Graphic Arts (2 Yr); Human Services (2 Yr); Marine Technology (2 Yr); Mechanical Drafting (2 Yr); Office Technology (2 Yr)

LEBANON

Lebanon College

15 Hanover St., Lebanon, NH 03766. Two-Year College. Contact: L. Donald Wenz, Ph.D., President, (603)448-2445, 888-LEB-COLL, Fax: (603)448-2491, E-mail: admissions@lebanoncollege.edu, Web Site: http://www.lebanoncollege.edu. Private. Housing not available. Term: Trisemester. Tuition: $6,418 in-state; $6,418 out-of-state. Degrees awarded: Associate.

MANCHESTER

Continental Academie of Hair Design (Manchester)

228 Maple St., Manchester, NH 03103. Cosmetology. Founded 1981. Contact: Suzanne Prince, Education Dir., (603)622-5851, Fax: (603)623-7042, E-mail: lurena1@aol.com, Web Site: http://continentalacademie.net; Alida Weergang, Artistic Dir.. Private. Coed. HS diploma required. Out-of-state students accepted. Housing not available. Term: Month. Tuition: $10,850 plus $650 books and supplies. Enrollment: men 2, women 52. Degrees awarded: Diploma. Accreditation: NACCAS. Approved: Vet. Admin. Financial aid available. Placement service available. Curriculum: Cosmetology (10-15 Mo)

Hesser College

3 Sundial Ave., Manchester, NH 03103. Two-Year College. Founded 1900. Contact: Mary Jo Greco, Pres., (603)668-6660, 800-526-9231, Fax: (603)666-4722, E-mail: admissions@hesser.edu, Web Site: http://www.hesser.edu; Web Site: http://www.hesser.edu/request-info.html. Private. Coed. HS diploma required. Out-of-state students accepted. Housing available. Term: Year. Tuition: $12,340 per year; $1,400 books and supplies. Enrollment: Total 3,296. Degrees awarded: Diploma, Associate, Certificate. Accreditation: ACICS; NEASC. Approved: Vet. Admin. Financial aid available. Placement service available. Handicapped facilities available. Curriculum: Accounting, General (2-4 Yr); Business Administration (2-4 Yr); Child Care & Guidance (2 Yr); Computer Applications (2 Yr); Computer Business Systems Technology (2 Yr); Criminal Justice (2-4 Yr); Early Childhood Education (2 Yr); Graphic Design (2 Yr); Human Services (2 Yr); Interior Design (2 Yr); Marketing (2 Yr); Medical Assistant (2 Yr); Medical Office Management (2 Yr); Paralegal (2 Yr); Physical Therapy Aide (2 Yr); Probation and Parole (2 Yr); Public Relations (2 Yr); Radio & Television (2 Yr); Small Business Management (2 Yr); Sports Management (2 Yr)

New Hampshire Community Technical College (Manchester)

1066 Front St., Manchester, NH 03102-8518. Two-Year College. Founded 1945. Contact: Richard Gustafson, Pres., (603)668-6706, 800-924-3445, Fax: (603)668-5354, E-mail: mbean@nhctc.edu, Web Site: http://www.ms.nhctc.edu. Public. Coed. HS diploma required. Out-of-state students accepted. Housing not available. Term: Semester. Tuition: $148/credit NH resident; $222 NE regional student; $340 non-resident. Enrollment: Total 1,944. Degrees awarded: Certificate, Associate, Diploma. Accreditation: NEASC. Approved: Vet. Admin. Financial aid available. Placement service available. Handicapped facilities available. Curriculum: Accounting, General; Administrative Assistant; Air Conditioning & Refrigeration; Air Conditioning, Heating & Refrigeration; Automotive Technology; Biomedical Technology; Building Construction Technology; Building Maintenance; Commercial Art; Computer Aided Drafting; Computer Programming; Drafting, Architectural; Drafting Technology; Early Childhood Education; Electricity, Apprenticeship; Electronics Technology; Health Technology; Heating Technology; Human Services; Management; Marketing; Medical Assistant; Medical Transcription; Microcomputers; Nursing, R.N.; Physical Therapy Aide; Real Estate Appraisal; Secretarial, Medical; Small Business Management; Welding Technology

North Eastern Institute of Whole Health School of Massage Therapy

22 Bridge St., Manchester, NH 03101-1619. Trade and Technical. Founded 1993. Contact: Douglas DuVerger, (603)623-5018, 800-545-8497, Fax: (603)623-4689, E-mail: admissions@neiwh.com, Web Site: http://www.neiwh.com. Private. Coed. HS diploma required. Out-of-state students accepted. Housing not available. Term: Year. Tuition: $8,000. Enrollment: men 27, women 158. Degrees awarded: Diploma. Approved: Vet. Admin. Financial aid not available. Placement service not available. Handicapped facilities not available. Curriculum: Massage Therapy (1-3 Yr)

Southern New Hampshire University

2500 N. River Rd., Manchester, NH 03106. Business. Founded 1932. Contact: Brad Poznanski, Dir. of Admission-Enrollment & Planning, (603)688-2211, (603)645-9611, Fax: (603)645-9693, E-mail: admissions@snhu.edu, info@snhu.edu, Web Site: http://www.snhu.edu. Private. Coed. HS diploma required. Out-of-state students accepted. Housing available. Term: Semester. Tuition: $20,184/yr.; $10,092/semester. Enrollment: men 2,763, women 2,856. Degrees awarded: Certificate, Associate. Accreditation: NEASC. Approved: Vet. Admin. Financial aid available. Placement service available. Handicapped facilities available. Curriculum: Accounting, General (2 Yr); Business Administration (2 Yr); Computer Servicing - Data Processing (2 Yr); Cook & Stewards Training (2 Yr); Fashion Merchandising (2 Yr)

University of New Hampshire at Manchester

400 Commercial St., Manchester, NH 03101-1113. Other. Founded 1967. Contact: Ginger Lever, Dir. of College Relations, (603)641-4321, (603)641-4122, Fax: (603)641-4305, E-mail: ginger.lever@unh.edu, unhm@unh.edu, Web Site: http://www.unhm.unh.edu. Public. Coed. HS diploma required. Term: Semester. Tuition: Varies. Enrollment: Total 805. Degrees awarded: Diploma. Accreditation: NEASC. Approved: Vet. Admin. Financial aid available. Curriculum: Accounting, General; Business Management; Civil Engineering Technology; Engineering Technology, Mechanical; Environmental Health; Human Services; Information Sciences Technology; Management; Marketing

NASHUA

Daniel Webster College

University Dr., Nashua, NH 03063. Other. Founded 1965. Contact: Sean J. Ryan, (603)577-6600, (603)325-6876, 800-325-6876, Fax: (603)577-6001, E-mail: admission@dwc.edu, Web Site: http://www.dwc.edu. Private. Coed. HS diploma required. Out-of-state students accepted. Housing available. Term: Semester. Tuition: $20,880; $750 fees; $8,170 room and board. Enrollment: Total 820. Degrees awarded: Associate. Accreditation: FAA; NEASC. Approved: Vet. Admin. Financial aid available. Placement service available. Handicapped facilities available. Curriculum: Aircraft Flight Instruction (4 Yr); Air Traffic Control (4 Yr); Aviation Management (4 Yr); Business Management (4 Yr); Computer Science (4 Yr); Engineering Technology (2 Yr); Information Sciences Technology (4 Yr)

Hesser College - Nashua

410 Amherst St., Nashua, NH 03063. Two-Year College. Founded 1975. Contact: Mary Jo Greco, Pres., (603)883-0404, 800-526-9231, E-mail: admissions@hesser.edu, Web Site: http://www.hesser.edu; Web Site: http://www.hesser.edu/request-info.html. Private. Coed. HS diploma required. Out-of-state students accepted. Housing available. Term: Year. Tuition: $12,340 per year; $1,400 books and supplies. Degrees awarded: Associate, Certificate. Approved: Vet. Admin. Financial aid available. Placement service available. Handicapped facilities available. Curriculum: Accounting, General (2 Yr); Business Administration (2 Yr); Computer Applications (2 Yr); Computer Business Systems Technology (2 Yr); Early Childhood Education (2 Yr); Graphic Design (2 Yr); Human Services (2 Yr); Interior Design (2 Yr); Massage Therapy (2 Yr); Medical Assistant (2 Yr); Paralegal (2 Yr); Physical Therapy Aide (2 Yr)

New Hampshire Community Technical College (Nashua)

505 Amherst St., Nashua, NH 03063. Two-Year College. Founded 1969. Contact: Patricia Goodman, VP of Student Services, (603)882-6923, (603)882-7022, Fax: (603)882-8690, E-mail: pgoodman@nhctc.edu, nashua@nhctc.edu, Web Site: http://www.ncctc.edu. Public. Coed. HS diploma required. Out-of-state students accepted. Housing not available. Term: Semester. Tuition: $4,750/year, state resident. Enrollment: Total 1,551. Degrees awarded: Certificate, Associate, Diploma. Accreditation: ABET; FAA. Approved: Vet. Admin. Financial aid available. Placement service available. Handicapped facilities available. Curriculum: Accounting, General; Automotive Collision Repair; Automotive Technology; Aviation Technology; Computer Aided Design; Computer Aided Drafting; Computer Information Science; Computer Networking; Computer Science; Early Childhood Education; Education; Electronic Engineering Technology; Engineering Technology, Computer; Liberal Arts; Management; Marketing; Numerical Control; Nursing; Paralegal; Telecommunications Technology

St. Joseph School of Practical Nursing

5 Woodward Ave., Nashua, NH 03060. Nursing. Founded 1964. Contact: Pauline Barton, (603)594-2567, 800-370-3169, Fax: (603)578-5028, E-mail: bprovencher@sjh-nh.org, Web Site: http://www.sjhacademiccenter.org. Private. Coed. HS diploma required. Out-of-state students accepted. Housing not available. Term: Other. Tuition: $9,350; $17,000 Registered Nursing Program. Enrollment: Total 100. Degrees awarded: Diploma. Accreditation: NLNAC. Approved: Vet. Admin. Financial aid available. Placement service not available. Handicapped facilities available. Curriculum: Nursing, Practical (11-17 Mo); Nursing, R.N. (2 yr)

PORTSMOUTH

C. Rogers Training Center

73 Corporate Dr., Portsmouth, NH 03801. Trade and Technical. Founded 1992. Contact: Stan Post, (NOTV), (603)436-7324, 800-505-0070, Fax: (603)430-7854, E-mail: training@microc-inc.com. Private. Coed. Out-of-state students accepted. Term: Varies with Program. Tuition: $6,000. Enrollment: men 60, women 40. Degrees awarded: Certificate. Approved: Vet. Admin. Financial aid available. Placement service available. Handicapped facilities available. Curriculum: Computer Operations

Hesser College - Portsmouth

170 Commerce Way, Portsmouth, NH 03801. Two-Year College. Founded 1985. Contact: Mary Jo Greco, Pres., (603)436-5300, 800-526-9231, E-mail: admissions@hesser.edu, Web Site: http://www.hesser.edu; Web Site: http://www.hesser.edu/request-info.html. Private. Coed. HS diploma required. Out-of-state students accepted. Housing available. Term: Year. Tuition: $12,340 per year; $1,400 books and supplies. Degrees awarded: Associate, Certificate. Approved: Vet. Admin. Financial aid available. Placement service available. Handicapped facilities available. Curriculum: Computer Applications (2 Yr); Computer Business Systems Technology (2 Yr); Early Childhood Education (2 Yr); Massage Therapy (2 Yr); Medical Assistant (2 Yr); Physical Therapy Aide (2 Yr)

Portsmouth Beauty School of Hair Design

140 Congress St., Portsmouth, NH 03801-4084. Cosmetology. Founded 1961. Contact: Fran Nardello, (603)436-5456, (603)436-7775, Fax: (603)436-5456, E-mail: fran.nardello@portsmouthbeautyschool.com, Web Site: http://portsmouthbeautyschool.com. Private. Coed. HS diploma required. Out-of-state students accepted. Housing not available. Term: Year. Tuition: $9,200. Enrollment: Total 35. Degrees awarded: Diploma. Accreditation: NACCAS; AACS. Approved: Vet. Admin. Financial aid available. Placement service available. Handicapped facilities available. Curriculum: Cosmetology (12 Mo)

RYE

East Coast Enterprise Training Center

PO Box 317, Rye, NH 03870. Trade and Technical. Founded 1985. Contact: Dell Record, (603)436-2523, Fax: (603)430-9398. Private. Coed. HS diploma not required. Out-of-state students accepted. Housing not available. Term: Hour. Tuition: $4,800 Structural Welding; $5,400 Pipe Welding; $355 Pipe Test; $255 Plate Welder Certification. Degrees awarded: Certificate. Approved: Vet. Admin. Placement service available. Handicapped facilities available. Curriculum: Welding, Arc & Gas (320 Hr); Welding, Combination (320 Hr); Welding, Heli Arc; Welding, MIG; Welding, Oxy-Acetylene; Welding, Pipe (320 Hr); Welding Technology; Welding, TIG

SALEM

Hesser College - Salem

11 Manor Pkwy., Salem, NH 03079. Two-Year College. Founded 1983. Contact: Mary Jo Greco, Pres., (603)898-3480, 800-526-9231, E-mail: admissions@hesser.edu, Web Site: http://www.hesser.edu; Web Site: http://www.hesser.edu/request-info.html. Private. Coed. HS diploma required. Out-of-state students accepted. Housing available. Term: Year. Tuition: $12,340 per year; $1,400 books and supplies. Degrees awarded: Associate, Certificate. Approved: Vet. Admin. Financial aid available. Placement service available. Handicapped facilities available. Curriculum: Computer Applications (2 Yr); Computer Business Systems Technology (2 Yr); Massage Therapy (2 Yr); Medical Assistant (2 Yr)

SOMERSWORTH

Empire Beauty School-Somersworth

362 Rte 108, Somersworth, NH 03878. Cosmetology. Contact: Norman Langlois, Chief executive office, (603)692-1515, 800-223-3271, Web Site: http://www.empire.edu. Private. Coed. Out-of-state students accepted. Housing not available. Term: Other. Tuition: $12,000. Enrollment: Total 203. Degrees awarded: Associate. Accreditation: NACCAS. Financial aid available. Handicapped facilities available. Curriculum: Cosmetology; Cosmetology Instructor; Manicurist

STRATHAM

New Hampshire Computer Technical College (Stratham)

277 Portsmouth Ave., Stratham, NH 03885. Two-Year College. Founded 1945. Contact: Lin Tamulonis, Admissions Counselor, (603)772-1194, Fax: (603)772-1198, E-mail: ltamulonis@nhctc.edu. Public. Coed. HS diploma required. Out-of-state students accepted. Housing not available. Term: Semester. Tuition: $2,075 in-state; $4,923 out-of-state. Enrollment: men 439, women 463. Degrees awarded: Certificate, Associate, Diploma. Approved: Vet. Admin. Financial aid available. Placement service not available. Handicapped facilities available. Curriculum: Accounting, General; Administrative Assistant; Automotive Technology; Biological Technology; Computer Aided Drafting; Computer Technology; Early Childhood Education; Electronics Technology; Human Services; Information Systems; Liberal Arts; Management; Marketing; Nursing, R.N.; Surgical Technology; Tourism; Veterinary Technology

WEST LEBANON

New England School of Hair Design, Inc.

12 Interchange Dr., West Lebanon, NH 03784. Cosmetology. Founded 1976. Contact: Gary Trottier, (603)298-5199, 877-298-5199, Fax: (603)298-7871, E-mail: trot@turbont.net, Web Site: http://www.neschoolofhairdesign.com. Private. Coed. HS diploma required. Out-of-state students accepted. Housing not available. Term: Hour. Tuition: $10,500. Enrollment: men 1, women 50. Degrees awarded: Diploma. Accreditation: NACCAS. Approved: Vet. Admin. Financial aid available. Placement service available. Handicapped facilities not available. Curriculum: Cosmetology (12 Mo); Cosmetology Instructor (3 Mo); Manicurist (3 Mo)

New Hampshire

CHESTER COLLEGE OF NEW ENGLAND

40 Chester St.
Chester, NH 03036-4331
Tel: (603)887-4401
Free: 800-974-6372
Admissions: (603)887-7400
E-mail: svogell@chestercollege.edu
Web Site: http://www.chestercollege.edu/
President/CEO: Dr. William A. Nevious
Registrar: Margaret Pagliuca
Admissions: Sarah Vogell
Financial Aid: Jay Walker
Type: Four-Year College Sex: Coed Scores: 90.9% SAT V 400+; 81.7% SAT M 400+; 65% ACT 18-23 % Accepted: 57 Admission Plans: Deferred Admission Application Deadline: Rolling Application Fee: $35.00 H.S. Requirements: High school diploma required; GED accepted Costs Per Year: Application fee: $35. Comprehensive fee: $22,565 includes full-time tuition ($14,700), mandatory fees ($265), and college room and board ($7600). Part-time tuition: $465 per credit. Part-time mandatory fees: $500 per year. Scholarships: Available Calendar System: Semester, Summer Session Available Faculty: FT 12, PT 21 Student-Faculty Ratio: 10:1 % Receiving Financial Aid: 78 % Residing in College-Owned, -Operated, or -Affiliated Housing: 52 Library Holdings: 27,000 Regional Accreditation: New England Association of Schools and Colleges Credit Hours For Degree: 60 credits, Associates; 120 credits, Bachelors

COLBY-SAWYER COLLEGE

541 Main St.
New London, NH 03257-7835
Tel: (603)526-3000
Free: 800-272-1015
Admissions: (603)526-3700
Fax: (603)526-3452
E-mail: csadmiss@colby-sawyer.edu
Web Site: http://www.colby-sawyer.edu/
President/CEO: Dr. Anne Ponder
Registrar: Carole H. Parsons
Admissions: Joseph Chillo
Financial Aid: Angela Dostie
Type: Four-Year College Sex: Coed Scores: 96% SAT V 400+; 100% SAT M 400+; 61% ACT 18-23; 25% ACT 24-29 % Accepted: 90 Admission Plans: Early Admission; Early Action; Deferred Admission Application Deadline: April 01 Application Fee: $45.00 H.S. Requirements: High school diploma required; GED accepted Costs Per Year: Application fee: $45. Comprehensive fee: $36,250 includes full-time tuition ($26,350) and college room and board ($9900). College room only: $5600. Part-time tuition: $880 per credit hour. Scholarships: Available Calendar System: Semester, Summer Session Not available Enrollment: FT 954, PT 17 Faculty: FT 57, PT 68 Student-Faculty Ratio: 11:1 Exams: SAT I or ACT % Receiving Financial Aid: 81 % Residing in College-Owned, -Operated, or -Affiliated Housing: 87 Library Holdings: 90,055 Regional Accreditation: New England Association of Schools and Colleges Credit Hours For Degree: 60 credit hours, Associates; 120 credit hours, Bachelors ROTC: Army, Air Force Professional Accreditation: AACN, JRCEPAT Intercollegiate Athletics: Baseball M; Basketball M & W; Cross-Country Running M & W; Equestrian Sports M & W; Field Hockey W; Ice Hockey M & W; Lacrosse M & W; Rugby M & W; Skiing (Cross-Country) M & W; Skiing (Downhill) M & W; Soccer M & W; Softball W; Swimming and Diving M & W; Tennis M & W; Track and Field M & W; Volleyball W

DANIEL WEBSTER COLLEGE

20 University Dr.
Nashua, NH 03063-1300
Tel: (603)577-6000
Free: 800-325-6876
Admissions: (603)577-6604
Fax: (603)577-6001
E-mail: thatcher@dwc.edu
Web Site: http://www.dwc.edu/
President/CEO: Hannah M. McCarthy
Registrar: Eileen Hocking
Admissions: Sean J. Ryan
Financial Aid: Mary Ellen Severance
Type: Four-Year College Sex: Coed Scores: 98% SAT V 400+; 99% SAT M 400+; 46.7% ACT 18-23; 40% ACT 24-29 Admission Plans: Early Admission; Deferred Admission Application Fee: $35.00 H.S. Requirements: High school diploma required; GED accepted Costs Per Year: Application fee: $35. Comprehensive fee: $31,405 includes full-time tuition ($22,130), mandatory fees ($825), and college room and board ($8450). Scholarships: Available Calendar System: Semester, Summer Session Available Enrollment: FT 823, PT 227, Grad 59 Faculty: FT 34, PT 27 Student-Faculty Ratio: 13:1 Exams: SAT I or ACT % Receiving Financial Aid: 96 % Residing in College-Owned, -Operated, or -Affiliated Housing: 80 Library Holdings: 34,195 Regional Accreditation: New England Association of Schools and Colleges Credit Hours For Degree: 60 credits, Associates; 120 credits, Bachelors ROTC: Army, Air Force Professional Accreditation: CAA Intercollegiate Athletics: BaseballM; Basketball M & W; Cross-Country Running M & W; Ice Hockey M & W; Lacrosse M; Soccer M & W; Softball W; Volleyball W

DARTMOUTH COLLEGE

Hanover, NH 03755
Tel: (603)646-1110
Admissions: (603)646-2875
Fax: (603)646-1216
E-mail: admissions.office@dartmouth.edu
Web Site: http://www.dartmouth.edu/
President/CEO: Dr. James Wright
Registrar: Polly Griffin
Admissions: Karl M. Furstenberg
Financial Aid: Virginia S. Hazen
Type: University Sex: Coed Scores: 100% SAT V 400+; 100% SAT M 400 + % Accepted: 17 Admission Plans: Early Admission; Early Decision Plan; Deferred Admission Application Deadline: January 01 Application Fee: $70.00 H.S. Requirements: High school diploma or equivalent not required Costs Per Year: Application fee: $70. Comprehensive fee: $41,436 includes full-time tuition ($31,770), mandatory fees ($276), and college room and board ($9390). College room only: $5640. Room and board charges vary according to board plan. Scholarships: Available Calendar System: Quarter, Summer Session Available Enrollment: FT 4,050, PT 60, Grad 1,374 Faculty: FT 493, PT 140 Student-Faculty Ratio: 8:1 Exams: SAT I and SAT II or ACT % Receiving Financial Aid: 51 % Residing in College-Owned, -Operated, or -Affiliated Housing: 82 Regional Accreditation: New England Association of Schools and Colleges Credit Hours For Degree: 35 courses, Bachelors ROTC: Army Professional Accreditation: AACSB, ABET, APA, CEPH, LCMEAMA, NAST Intercollegiate Athletics: Badminton M & W; Baseball M; Basketball M & W; Cheerleading M & W; Crew M & W; Cross-Country Running M & W; Equestrian Sports M & W; Fencing M & W; Field Hockey W; Football M; Golf M & W; Gymnastics M & W; Ice Hockey M & W; Lacrosse M & W; Rugby M & W; Sailing M & W; Skiing (Cross-Country) M & W; Skiing (Downhill) M & W; Soccer M & W; Softball W; Squash M & W; Swimming and Diving M & W; Table Tennis M & W; Tennis M & W; Track and Field M & W; Ultimate Frisbee M & W; Volleyball M & W; Water Polo M & W; Wrestling M

FRANKLIN PIERCE COLLEGE

20 College Rd., PO Box 60
Rindge, NH 03461-0060
Tel: (603)899-4000
Free: 800-437-0048
Admissions: (603)899-4050
Fax: (603)899-4372
E-mail: admissions@rindge.fpc.edu
Web Site: http://www.fpc.edu/
President/CEO: Dr. George J. Hagerty
Registrar: Susan Chamberlin, PhD
Admissions: Lucy C. Shonk
Financial Aid: JoEllen Soucier
Type: Comprehensive Sex: Coed Scores: 95% SAT V 400+; 94% SAT M 400 + % Accepted: 74 Admission Plans: Early Admission; Deferred Admission Application Deadline: Rolling Application Fee: $0.00 H.S. Requirements: High school diploma required; GED accepted. For early entrance program: High school diploma or equivalent not required Costs Per Year: Application fee: $0. Comprehensive fee: $33,500 includes full-time tuition ($24,300), mandatory fees ($1000), and college room and board ($8200). College room only: $4600. Part-time tuition: $810 per credit. Scholarships: Available Calendar System: Semester, Summer Session Available Enrollment: FT 1,596, PT 39 Faculty: FT 74, PT 76 Student-Faculty Ratio: 16:1 Exams: SAT I or ACT % Receiving Financial Aid: 74 % Residing in College-Owned, -Operated, or -Affiliated Housing: 87 Library Holdings: 110,210 Regional Accreditation: New England Association of Schools and Colleges Credit Hours For Degree: 120 credits, Bachelors ROTC: Army, Air Force Professional Accreditation: APTA Intercollegiate Athletics: Baseball M; Basketball M & W; Crew M & W; Cross-Country Running M & W; Field Hockey W; Golf M & W; Ice Hockey M; Lacrosse M & W; Soccer M & W; Softball W; Tennis M & W; Volleyball W

GRANITE STATE COLLEGE

125 North State St.
Concord, NH 03301
Tel: (603)228-3000
Fax: (603)229-0964
Web Site: http://www.granite.edu/
President/CEO: Dr. Karol A. LaCroix
Registrar: Ruth Nawn
Admissions: Teresa McDonnell
Financial Aid: Juanita Plourde
Type: Four-Year College Sex: Coed Affiliation: University System of New Hampshire Application Fee: $45.00 H.S. Requirements: High school diploma required; GED accepted Calendar System: Semester, Summer Session Available Faculty: PT 223 Student-Faculty Ratio: 10:1 Regional Accreditation: New England Association of Schools and Colleges Credit Hours For Degree: 64 semester hours, Associates; 124 semester hours, Bachelors

HESSER COLLEGE

3 Sundial Ave.
Manchester, NH 03103-7245
Tel: (603)668-6660
Free: 800-526-9231
Web Site: http://www.hesser.edu/
President/CEO: Robert Moon
Registrar: Elaine Minnehan-Caron
Admissions: Julie English
Financial Aid: Debra LeDuke
Type: Two-Year College Sex: Coed Affiliation: Quest Education Corporation Admission Plans: Deferred Admission Application Fee: $10.00 H.S. Requirements: High school diploma required; GED accepted Costs Per Year: Application fee: $10. Comprehensive fee: $18,940 includes full-time tuition ($11,340), mandatory fees ($1000), and college room and board ($6600). College room only: $3600. Part-time tuition: $410 per credit. Scholarships: Available Calendar System: Semester, Summer Session Available Enrollment: FT 2,104, PT 1,294 Faculty: FT 38, PT 177 Exams: SAT I % Residing in College-Owned, -Operated, or -Affiliated Housing: 50 Library Holdings: 38,000 Regional Accreditation: New England Association of Schools and Colleges Credit Hours For Degree: 60 credits, Associates; 120 credits, Bachelors Professional Accreditation: AAMAE, APTA Intercollegiate Athletics: Basketball M & W; Soccer M & W; Volleyball M & W

KEENE STATE COLLEGE

229 Main St.
Keene, NH 03435
Tel: (603)352-1909
Free: 800-572-1909
Admissions: (603)358-2273
Fax: (603)358-2767
E-mail: admissions@keene.edu
Web Site: http://www.keene.edu/
President/CEO: Dr. Stanley J. Yarosewick
Registrar: Tom Richard
Admissions: Margaret Richmond
Financial Aid: Patricia Blodgett
Type: Comprehensive Sex: Coed Affiliation: University System of New Hampshire Scores: 95.4% SAT V 400+; 94.3% SAT M 400 + % Accepted: 76 Admission Plans: Deferred Admission Application Deadline: April 01 Application Fee: $35.00 H.S. Requirements: High school diploma required; GED accepted Costs Per Year: Application fee: $35. State resident tuition: $5780 full-time, $241 per credit part-time. Nonresident tuition: $13,050 full-time, $544 per credit part-time. Mandatory fees: $2038 full-time, $77 per credit part-time. Part-time tuition and fees vary according to course load and degree level. College room and board: $7027. College room only: $4700. Room and board charges vary according to board plan and housing facility. Scholarships: Available Calendar System: Semester, Summer Session Available Enrollment: FT 4,170, PT 559, Grad 117 Faculty: FT 187, PT 222 Student-Faculty Ratio: 17:1 Exams: SAT I or ACT % Receiving Financial Aid: 53 % Residing in College-Owned, -Operated, or -Affiliated Housing: 56 Regional Accreditation: New England Association of Schools and Colleges Credit Hours For Degree: 60 credits, Associates; 120 credits, Bachelors ROTC: Air Force Professional Accreditation: ADtA, JRCEPAT, NASM, NCATE Intercollegiate Athletics: Baseball M; Basketball M & W; Cross-Country Running M & W; Field Hockey W; Lacrosse M & W; Rugby M & W; Skiing (Downhill) M & W; Soccer M & W; Softball W; Swimming and Diving M & W; Track and Field M & W; Volleyball W

MAGDALEN COLLEGE

511 Kearsarge Mountain Rd.
Warner, NH 03278
Tel: (603)456-2656; 877-498-1723
Fax: (603)456-2660
E-mail: jfout@magdalen.edu
Web Site: http://www.magdalen.edu/
President/CEO: Jeffrey J. Karls
Admissions: Justin Fout
Type: Four-Year College Sex: Coed Affiliation: Roman Catholic Scores: 94% SAT V 400+; 87% SAT M 400+; 62% ACT 18-23; 38% ACT 24-29 % Accepted: 78 Admission Plans: Early Admission; Early Decision Plan Application Deadline: May 01 Application Fee: $35.00 H.S. Requirements: High school diploma required; GED accepted Costs Per Year: Application fee: $35. Comprehensive fee: $17,250 includes full-time tuition ($10,750) and college room and board ($6500). Scholarships: Available Calendar System: Semester, Summer Session Not available Enrollment: FT 72, PT 1 Faculty: FT 7, PT 2 Student-Faculty Ratio: 8:1 Exams: SAT I or ACT % Receiving Financial Aid: 59 % Residing in College-Owned, -Operated, or -Affiliated Housing: 100 Library Holdings: 26,000 Credit Hours For Degree: 60 credit hours, Associates; 120 credit hours, Bachelors Professional Accreditation: AALE

MCINTOSH COLLEGE

23 Cataract Ave.
Dover, NH 03820-3990 Tel: (603)742-1234
Free: 800-McINTOSH
Fax: (603)742-7292
Web Site: http://www.mcintoshcollege.edu/
President/CEO: Robert Saiz
Admissions: Jody LaBrie
Financial Aid: Eeva Deshon
Type: Two-Year College Sex: Coed Admission Plans: Open Admission; Early Admission; Deferred Admission Application Fee: $15.00 H.S. Requirements: High school diploma required; GED accepted Costs Per Year: Application fee: $15. Comprehensive fee: $25,085 includes full-time tuition ($15,600), mandatory fees ($125), and college room and board ($9360). Part-time tuition: $443 per credit. Tuition guaranteed not to increase for student's term of enrollment. Scholarships: Available Calendar System: Trimester, Summer Session Available Faculty: FT 42, PT 58 Student-Faculty Ratio: 25:1 % Residing in College-Owned, -Operated, or -Affiliated Housing: 25 Library Holdings: 11,000 Regional Accreditation: New England Association of Schools and Colleges Credit Hours For Degree: 66 credits, Associates

NEW ENGLAND COLLEGE

7 Main St.
Henniker, NH 03242-3293
Tel: (603)428-2211
Free: 800-521-7642
Admissions: (603)428-2223
E-mail: admission@nec.edu
Web Site: http://www.nec.edu/
President/CEO: Dr. Ellen S. Hurwitz
Registrar: Frank Hall
Admissions: Paul Miller
Financial Aid: Ray Nault
Type: Comprehensive Sex: Coed Scores: 76% SAT V 400+; 70% SAT M 400+; 31% ACT 18-23; 15% ACT 24-29 % Accepted: 83 Admission Plans: Deferred Admission Application Deadline: Rolling Application Fee: $30.00 H.S. Requirements: High school diploma required; GED accepted Costs Per Year: Application fee: $30. Comprehensive fee: $31,466 includes full-time tuition ($22,366), mandatory fees ($644), and college room and board ($8456). College room only: $4398. Full-time tuition and fees vary according to class time, course load, degree level, location, and program. Room and board charges vary according to board plan and housing facility. Part-time tuition: $1065 per credit. Part-time mandatory fees: $198 per term. Part-time tuition and fees vary according to class time, course load, degree level, location, and program. Scholarships: Available Calendar System: Semester, Summer Session Available Enrollment: FT 972, PT 69, Grad 339 Faculty: FT 57, PT 95 Student-Faculty Ratio: 11:1 % Receiving Financial Aid: 74 % Residing in College-Owned, -Operated, or -Affiliated Housing: 68 Library Holdings: 100,000 Regional Accreditation: New England Association of Schools and Colleges Credit Hours For Degree: 30 credits, Associates; 40 credits, Bachelors ROTC: Army, Air Force Intercollegiate Athletics: Baseball M; Basketball M & W; Cross-Country Running M & W; Field Hockey W; Ice Hockey M & W; Lacrosse M & W; Skiing (Downhill) M & W; Soccer M & W; Softball W

NEW HAMPSHIRE COMMUNITY TECHNICAL COLLEGE, BERLIN/LACONIA

2020 Riverside Dr.
Berlin, NH 03570-3717
Tel: (603)752-1113
Free: 800-445-4525
Web Site: http://www.berlin.nhctc.edu/
President/CEO: Katharine Eneguess
Registrar: Marie Bly
Admissions: Martha P. Laflamme
Financial Aid: Jacqueline Catello
Type: Two-Year College Sex: Coed Affiliation: New Hampshire Community Technical College System Application Fee: $10.00 H.S. Requirements: High school diploma required; GED accepted Costs Per Year: Application fee: $10. State resident tuition: $164 per credit part-time. Nonresident tuition: $376 per credit part-time. Mandatory fees: $4 per credit part-time. Scholarships: Available Calendar System: Semester, Summer Session Available Enrollment: FT 708, PT 1,372 Faculty: FT 33, PT 72 Exams: Other Library Holdings: 10,000 Regional Accreditation: New England Association of Schools and Colleges Credit Hours For Degree: 64 credits, Associates Intercollegiate Athletics: Basketball M & W; Ice Hockey M & W; Soccer M & W

NEW HAMPSHIRE COMMUNITY TECHNICAL COLLEGE, MANCHESTER/STRATHAM

1066 Front St.
Manchester, NH 03102-8518
Tel: (603)668-6706
E-mail: ntravers@nhctc.edu
Web Site: http://www.manchester.nhctc.edu/
President/CEO: Thomas Wisbey
Registrar: Evelyn R. Perron
Admissions: Dr. Nancy L. Travers
Financial Aid: Pamela Boyer
Type: Two-Year College Sex: Coed Affiliation: New Hampshire Community Technical College System % Accepted: 90 Admission Plans: Early Admission; Deferred Admission Application Deadline: Rolling Application Fee: $10.00 H.S. Requirements: High school diploma required; GED accepted Costs Per Year: Application fee: $10. Area resident tuition: $3936 full-time, $164 per credit part-time. State resident tuition: $5904 full-time, $246 per credit part-time. Nonresident tuition: $9024 full-time, $376 per credit part-time. Mandatory fees: $5 per credit part-time. Scholarships: Available Calendar System: Semester, Summer Session Available Faculty: FT 47, PT 143 Student-Faculty Ratio: 14:1 Library Holdings: 18,000 Regional Accreditation: New England Association of Schools and Colleges Credit Hours For Degree: 64 credit hours, Associates Professional Accreditation: ARCEST, AAMAE, ACBSP, NLN Intercollegiate Athletics: Baseball W; Basketball M; Skiing (Downhill) M & W; Soccer M & W; Volleyball M & W

NEW HAMPSHIRE COMMUNITY TECHNICAL COLLEGE, NASHUA/CLAREMONT

505 Amherst St.
Nashua, NH 03063-1026
Tel: (603)882-6923
Fax: (603)882-8690
E-mail: nashua@nhctc.edu
Web Site: http://www.ncctc.edu/
President/CEO: Lucille Jordan
Registrar: Judith French
Admissions: Patricia Goodman
Financial Aid: Julie Burns
Type: Two-Year College Sex: Coed Affiliation: New Hampshire Community Technical College System Admission Plans: Deferred Admission Application Deadline: Rolling Application Fee: $10.00 H.S. Requirements: High school diploma required; GED accepted Costs Per Year: Application fee: $10. State resident tuition: $5248 full-time, $164 per credit part-time. Nonresident tuition: $12,032 full-time, $376 per credit part-time. Mandatory fees: $512 full-time, $16 per credit part-time. Scholarships: Available Calendar System: Semester, Summer Session Available Faculty: FT 42, PT 66 Student-Faculty Ratio: 9:1 Library Holdings: 22,000 Regional Accreditation: New England Association of Schools and Colleges Credit Hours For Degree: 64 credits, Associates Professional Accreditation: ABET, AHIMA, AOTA, CARC, NAACLS, NLN Intercollegiate Athletics: Soccer M & W

NEW HAMPSHIRE INSTITUTE OF ART

148 Concord St.
Manchester, NH 03104-4158
Tel: (603)623-0313
Admissions: (866)241-4918
Fax: (603)641-1832
E-mail: lsullivan@nhia.edu
Web Site: http://www.nhia.edu/
President/CEO: Roger Williams
Registrar: Laura Cleaves
Admissions: Liam Sullivan
Financial Aid: Linda LaVallee
Type: Four-Year College Sex: Coed Admission Plans: Open Admission Application Fee: $25.00 H.S. Requirements: High school diploma required; GED accepted Costs Per Year: Application fee: $25. Tuition: $10,950 full-time, $365 per credit part-time. Mandatory fees: $1130 full-time, $466 per year part-time. College room only: $5700. Room charges vary according to housing facility. Scholarships: Available Calendar System: Semester, Summer Session Available Enrollment: FT 135, PT 45 Faculty: FT 5, PT 40 Student-Faculty Ratio: 15:1 Exams: SAT I or ACT Library Holdings: 5,000 Credit Hours For Degree: 120 credits, Bachelors Professional Accreditation: NASAD

NEW HAMPSHIRE TECHNICAL INSTITUTE

11 Institute Dr.
Concord, NH 03301-7412
Tel: (603)271-6484
Free: 800-247-0179
Admissions: (603)271-7131
Fax: (603)271-7734
Web Site: http://www.nhti.edu/
President/CEO: Dr. William Simonton, Jr.
Registrar: Pamela M. Halen-Smith
Admissions: Francis P. Meyer
Financial Aid: Paula Marsh
Type: Two-Year College Sex: Coed Affiliation: New Hampshire Community Technical College System % Accepted: 73 Admission Plans: Preferred Admission Application Deadline: Rolling Application Fee: $10.00 H.S. Requirements: High school diploma required; GED accepted Costs Per Year: Application fee: $10. State resident tuition: $4920 full-time, $164 per credit part-time. Nonresident tuition: $11,280 full-time, $376 per credit part-time. Mandatory fees: $480 full-time, $16 per credit part-time. College room and board: $6110. College room only: $4150. Scholarships: Available Calendar System: Semester, Summer Session Available Enrollment: FT 1,523, PT 2,127 Faculty: FT 97, PT 49 Student-Faculty Ratio: 12:1 Exams: Other, SAT I or ACT % Residing in College-Owned, -Operated, or -Affiliated Housing: 23 Library Holdings: 32,000 Regional Accreditation: New England Association of Schools and Colleges Credit Hours For Degree: 64 credit hours, Associates Professional Accreditation: ABET, ADA, JRCERT, JRCEMT, NLN Intercollegiate Athletics: Baseball M; Basketball M & W; Soccer M & W; Softball W; Volleyball M & W

PLYMOUTH STATE UNIVERSITY

17 High St.
Plymouth, NH 03264-1595
Tel: (603)535-5000
Free: 800-842-6900
Fax: (603)535-2714
E-mail: plymouthadmit@plymouth.edu
Web Site: http://www.plymouth.edu/
President/CEO: Dr. Donald P. Wharton
Registrar: Matthew Burkhart
Admissions: Eugene Fahey
Financial Aid: June Schlabach
Type: Comprehensive Sex: Coed Affiliation: University System of New Hampshire Scores: 89% SAT V 400+; 89% SAT M 400+; 52% ACT 18-23; 14% ACT 24-29 % Accepted: 77 Admission Plans: Deferred Admission Application Deadline: April 01 Application Fee: $35.00 H.S. Requirements: High school diploma required; GED accepted Costs Per Year: Application fee: $35. State resident tuition: $5410 full-time, $226 per credit hour part-time. Nonresident tuition: $12,250 full-time, $510 per credit hour part-time. Mandatory fees: $1618 full-time, $74 per credit hour part-time. full-time tuition and fees vary according to reciprocity agreements. Part-time tuition and fees vary according to course load and reciprocity agreements. College room and board: $6780. College room only: $4650. Room and board charges vary according to board plan and housing facility. Scholarships: Available Calendar System: Semester, Summer Session Available Enrollment: FT 3,956, PT 236, Grad 1,072 Faculty: FT 175, PT 277 Student-Faculty Ratio: 17:1 Exams: SAT I or ACT % Receiving Financial Aid: 52 % Residing in College-Owned, -Operated, or -Affiliated Housing: 53 Library Holdings: 306,314 Regional Accreditation: New England Association of Schools and Colleges Credit Hours For Degree: 122 semester credit hours, Bachelors ROTC: Army, Air Force Professional Accreditation: ACBSP, CSWE, JRCEPAT, NCATE Intercollegiate Athletics: Baseball M; Basketball M & W; Cheerleading M & W; Field Hockey W; Football M; Ice Hockey M & W; Lacrosse M & W; Skiing (Downhill) M & W; Soccer M & W; Softball W; Swimming and Diving W; Tennis W; Volleyball M & W; Wrestling M

RIVIER COLLEGE

420 Main St.
Nashua, NH 03060-5086
Tel: (603)888-1311
Free: 800-44RIVIER
Admissions: (603)897-8502
Fax: (603)891-1799
E-mail: rivadmit@rivier.edu
Web Site: http://www.rivier.edu/
President/CEO: William Farrell, PhD
Registrar: Louise Monast
Admissions: Kevin Gately
Financial Aid: Valerie Patnaude
Type: Comprehensive Sex: Coed Affiliation: Roman Catholic Scores: 91% SAT V 400+; 89% SAT M 400 + % Accepted: 72 Admission Plans: Early Action; Deferred Admission Application Deadline: Rolling Application Fee: $25.00 H.S. Requirements: High school diploma required; GED accepted Costs Per Year: Application fee: $25. Comprehensive fee: $28,144 includes full-time tuition ($19,980), mandatory fees ($600), and college room and board ($7564). Room and board charges vary according to board plan and housing facility. Part-time tuition: $666 per credit. Part-time tuition varies according to class time. Scholarships: Available Calendar System: Semester, Summer Session Not available Enrollment: FT 845, PT 543, Grad 735 Faculty: FT 71, PT 109 Student-Faculty Ratio: 9:1 Exams: Other, SAT I or ACT % Receiving Financial Aid: 92 % Residing in College-Owned, -Operated, or -Affiliated Housing: 46 Library Holdings: 92,000 Regional Accreditation: New England Association of Schools and Colleges Credit Hours For Degree: 60 credits, Associates; 120 credits, Bachelors ROTC: Air Force Professional Accreditation: NLN Intercollegiate Athletics: Baseball M; Basketball M & W; Cheerleading M & W; Cross-Country Running M & W; Golf M & W; Soccer M & W; Softball W; Volleyball M & W

SAINT ANSELM COLLEGE

100 Saint Anselm Dr.
Manchester, NH 03102-1310
Tel: (603)641-7000; 888-4ANSELM
Admissions: (603)641-7500
Fax: (603)641-7550
E-mail: admission@anselm.edu
Web Site: http://www.anselm.edu/
President/CEO: Rev. Jonathan DeFelice, OSB
Registrar: Mary Anne Ericson
Admissions: Nancy Davis Griffin
Financial Aid: Elizabeth Keuffel
Type: Four-Year College Sex: Coed Affiliation: Roman Catholic Scores: 100% SAT V 400+; 100% SAT M 400+; 46% ACT 18-23; 45% ACT 24-29 % Accepted: 73 Admission Plans: Early Admission; Early Decision Plan; Deferred Admission Application Deadline: Rolling Application Fee: $55.00 H.S. Requirements: High school diploma required; GED accepted Costs Per Year: Application fee: $55. Comprehensive fee: $33,730 includes full-time tuition ($23,990), mandatory fees ($670), and college room and board ($9070). Part-time tuition: $2400 per course. Scholarships: Available Calendar System: Semester, Summer Session Available Enrollment: FT 1,937, PT 49 Faculty: FT 131, PT 46 Student-Faculty Ratio: 13:1 Exams: SAT I or ACT % Receiving Financial Aid: 72 % Residing in College-Owned, -Operated, or -Affiliated Housing: 95 Library Holdings: 222,000 Regional Accreditation: New England Association of Schools and Colleges Credit Hours For Degree: 40 courses, Bachelors ROTC: Army, Air Force Professional Accreditation: AACN Intercollegiate Athletics: Baseball M; Basketball M & W; Cheerleading W; Field Hockey W; Football M; Golf M; Ice Hockey M; Lacrosse M & W; Skiing (Downhill) M & W; Soccer M & W; Softball W; Tennis M & W; Volleyball W

SOUTHERN NEW HAMPSHIRE UNIVERSITY

2500 North River Rd.
Manchester, NH 03106-1045
Tel: (603)668-2211
Free: 800-642-4968
Admissions: (603)645-9611
Fax: (603)645-9693
E-mail: admission@nhc.edu
Web Site: http://www.snhu.edu/
President/CEO: Dr. Paul J. LeBlanc
Registrar: Dr. Richard Ouellette
Admissions: Steve Soba
Financial Aid: Dr. Scott J. Kalicki
Type: Comprehensive Sex: Coed Scores: 92% SAT V 400+; 91% SAT M 400 + % Accepted: 74 Admission Plans: Early Action; Deferred Admission Application Deadline: Rolling Application Fee: $35.00 H.S. Requirements: High school diploma required; GED accepted Costs Per Year: Application fee: $35. Comprehensive fee: $30,194 includes full-time tuition ($21,384), mandatory fees ($330), and college room and board ($8480). College room only: $6080. Part-time tuition: $891 per credit. Scholarships: Available Calendar System: Semester, Summer Session Available Enrollment: FT 1,784, PT 60, Grad 2,043 Faculty: FT 114, PT 275 Student-Faculty Ratio: 14:1 Exams: SAT I or ACT % Receiving Financial Aid: 70 % Residing in College-Owned, -Operated, or -Affiliated Housing: 78 Library Holdings: 89,338 Regional Accreditation: New England Association of Schools and Colleges Credit Hours For Degree: 60 credits, Associates; 120 credits, Bachelors ROTC: Army, Air Force Professional Accreditation: ACF, ACBSP Intercollegiate Athletics: Baseball M; Basketball M & W; Cheerleading M & W; Cross-Country Running M & W; Golf M; Ice Hockey M; Lacrosse M & W; Soccer M & W; Softball W; Tennis M & W; Volleyball W

THOMAS MORE COLLEGE OF LIBERAL ARTS

6 Manchester St.
Merrimack, NH 03054-4818
Tel: (603)880-8308
Free: 800-880-8308
Fax: (603)880-9280
Web Site: http://www.thomasmorecollege.edu/
President/CEO: Dr. Peter V. Sampo
Registrar: Brian Shea
Admissions: Joanne Geiger
Financial Aid: Joanne Geiger
Type: Four-Year College Sex: Coed Affiliation: Roman Catholic Church Scores: 100% SAT V 400+; 100% SAT M 400+; 75% ACT 24-29 Admission Plans: Early Admission; Deferred Admission Application Fee: $0.00 H.S. Requirements: High school diploma required; GED accepted Costs Per Year: Application fee: $0. Comprehensive fee: $18,650 includes full-time tuition ($10,600), mandatory fees ($50), and college room and board ($8000). Part-time tuition: $175 per credit hour. Scholarships: Available Calendar System: Semester, Summer Session Not available Enrollment: FT 86 Faculty: FT 6, PT 1 Student-Faculty Ratio: 17:1 Exams: SAT I or ACT % Receiving Financial Aid: 40 % Residing in College-Owned, -Operated, or -Affiliated Housing: 97 Library Holdings: 45,000 Regional Accreditation: New England Association of Schools and Colleges Credit Hours For Degree: 120 credits, Bachelors Professional Accreditation: AALE

UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

Durham, NH 03824
Tel: (603)862-1234
Admissions: (603)862-1360
E-mail: admissions@unh.edu
Web Site: http://www.unh.edu/
President/CEO: Dr. Ann Weaver Hart
Registrar: Kathryn P. Forbes
Admissions: Robert McGann
Financial Aid: Susan K. Allen
Type: University Sex: Coed Affiliation: University System of New Hampshire Scores: 99% SAT V 400+; 99% SAT M 400 + % Accepted: 72 Admission Plans: Preferred Admission; Early Action; Deferred Admission Application Deadline: February 01 Application Fee: $45.00 H.S. Requirements: High school diploma required; GED accepted Costs Per Year: Application fee: $45. State resident tuition: $8240 full-time. Nonresident tuition: $20,690 full-time. Mandatory fees: $2161 full-time. College room and board: $7584. College room only: $4606. Scholarships: Available Calendar System: Semester, Summer Session Available Enrollment: FT 10,911, PT 618, Grad 3,035 Faculty: FT 694, PT 268 Student-Faculty Ratio: 16:1 Exams: SAT I or ACT % Receiving Financial Aid: 58 % Residing in College-Owned, -Operated, or -Affiliated Housing: 56 Library Holdings: 1,771,477 Regional Accreditation: New England Association of Schools and Colleges Credit Hours For Degree: 64 credits, Associates; 128 credits, Bachelors ROTC: Army, Air Force Professional Accreditation: AACSB, ABET, AAMFT, AACN, ADtA, AOTA, APA, ASLHA, CSWE, JRCEPAT, NAACLS, NASM, NRPA, SAF Intercollegiate Athletics: Archery M & W; Badminton M & W; Baseball M; Basketball M & W; Crew M & W; Cross-Country Running M & W; Fencing M & W; Field Hockey W; Football M; Golf M; Gymnastics W; Ice Hockey M & W; Lacrosse M & W; Rugby M & W; Sailing M & W; Skiing (Cross-Country) M & W; Skiing (Downhill) M & W; Soccer M & W; Softball W; Swimming and Diving M & W; Tennis M & W; Track and Field M & W; Volleyball M & W; Wrestling M

UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE AT MANCHESTER

400 Commercial St.
Manchester, NH 03101-1113
Tel: (603)641-4321
Admissions: (603)641-4150
Fax: (603)641-4125
Web Site: http://www.unhm.unh.edu/
President/CEO: Dr. Robert Jolley
Registrar: Stacey Silva
Admissions: Miho Bean
Financial Aid: Jodi Abad
Type: Comprehensive Sex: Coed Affiliation: University System of New Hampshire Scores: 96% SAT V 400+; 96% SAT M 400 + % Accepted: 63 Admission Plans: Deferred Admission Application Deadline: June 15 Application Fee: $35.00 H.S. Requirements: High school diploma required; GED accepted Costs Per Year: Application fee: $35. State resident tuition: $6960 full-time, $290 per credit part-time. Nonresident tuition: $17,610 full-time, $734 per credit part-time. Mandatory fees: $203 full-time. Full-time tuition and fees vary according to course load and program. Part-time tuition varies according to course load and program. Scholarships: Available Calendar System: Semester, Summer Session Available Enrollment: FT 561, PT 437, Grad 167 Faculty: FT 33, PT 58 Student-Faculty Ratio: 12:1 Exams: SAT I % Receiving Financial Aid: 43 Library Holdings: 32,261 Regional Accreditation: New England Association of Schools and Colleges Credit Hours For Degree: 64 credits, Associates; 128 credits, Bachelors ROTC: Army, Air Force