Tufts University
Medford, MA 02155
www.tufts.edu

Tufts University is a private research university in Medford/Somerville, near Boston, Massachusetts, USA. The university is home to the nation's oldest graduate school of international relations, The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy.

Tufts is organized into 10 schools, including two undergraduate programs and eight graduate divisions, on four campuses in Massachusetts and on the eastern border of France. The university emphasizes public service in all of its disciplines and is well-known for internationalism and its study abroad programs.

Campuses

The University has four main campuses—three in the Boston area and one in southern France.

Greater Boston

Tufts' main campus is located on Walnut Hill in Medford, about 5 miles (8 km) from Boston. Tufts' Medford campus, along with MIT and Harvard, has been called part of a "brainpower triangle" based on the research influence of the three universities. While the majority of the campus is in Medford, the Somerville line runs through the campus, placing some parts of the lower campus in Somerville, and leading to the common terms "Uphill" and "Downhill" for the two sections. The offices of the president, the provost, many of the vice presidents, and the dean of the School of Arts and Sciences are located in Ballou Hall, the oldest building on the hill. There are administrative offices in the surrounding neighborhoods and nearby Davis Square. Many points on the hill have noted views of the Boston skyline, particularly the patio on the Tisch Library roof.

The Schools of Medicine, Biomedical Sciences, Dental Medicine, and the Friedman School of Nutrition are located on a campus in the Chinatown neighborhood of Boston, adjacent to Tufts Medical Center, a 451-bed academic medical institution. All full-time Tufts Medical Center physicians hold clinical faculty appointments at Tufts School of Medicine.

The Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine is located in Grafton, Massachusetts, west of Boston, on a 634-acre (2.57 km2) campus. The school also maintains the Ambulatory Farm Clinic in Woodstock, Connecticut and the Tufts Laboratory at the Marine Biological Laboratory at Woods Hole on Cape Cod.

Talloires
 
The Tufts European Center on the Talloires campusTufts has a satellite campus in Talloires, France at the Tufts European Center, a former Benedictine priory built in the 11th century. The priory was purchased in 1958 by Donald MacJannet and his wife Charlotte and used as a summer camp site for several years before the MacJannets gave the campus to Tufts in 1978. Each year the center hosts a number of summer study programs, and enrolled students live with local families. The site is frequently the host of international conferences and summits.

Organization

Tufts University comprises eight schools including:

The School of Arts and Sciences (1898 or 1903).
The School of Engineering (1898).
The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy (1933), America's oldest graduate school for international relations and foreign affairs.
The School of Dental Medicine (1899)
The School of Medicine (1893), whose primary affiliated hospitals are the Tufts Medical Center and the Baystate Medical Center.
The Sackler School of Graduate Biomedical Sciences (1981).
The Gerald J. and Dorothy R. Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy (1981), the only graduate school of nutrition in North America, with the USDA Human Nutrition Research Center.
The Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine (1978), the only veterinary school in New England.
The Jonathan M. Tisch College of Citizenship and Public Service (2000).
Each school has its own faculty and is led by a dean appointed by the president and the provost with the consent of the Board of Trustees. In addition, the university is affiliated with the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and the New England Conservatory of Music.

The School of Arts and Sciences and the School of Engineering are the only schools that award both undergraduate and graduate degrees. The Jackson College for Women, established in 1910 as a coordinate college adjacent to the Tufts campus, was integrated with the College of Liberal Arts in 1980, but is recognized in the formal name of the undergraduate arts and sciences division, the "College of Liberal Arts and Jackson College". Undergraduate women in arts and sciences continued to receive their diplomas from Jackson College until 2002.

The Fletcher School, the School of Medicine, the Sackler School of Graduate Biomedical Sciences, the School of Dental Medicine, the Gerald J. and Dorothy R. Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, and the Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine are exclusively graduate and professional schools. All of these schools, with the exception of dental medicine, also award the Ph.D.

The Jonathan M. Tisch College of Citizenship and Public Service was founded in 2000 "to educate for active citizenship" with the help of a $10 million gift from eBay founder Pierre Omidyar and his wife Pam. In 2006 the school was renamed after a $40 million gift from Jonathan Tisch. It has been called the "most ambitious attempt by any research university to make public service part of its core academic mission." Tisch College does not grant degrees; the college facilitates and supports a wide range of community service and civil engagement programs, research and teaching initiatives across the university.

Under the purview of the School of Arts and Sciences is the Experimental College, a non-degree-granting entity created in 1964 as a proving ground for innovative, experimental, and interdisciplinary curricula and courses. By far, the most successful component of the Ex College is EPIIC, a year-long program begun in 1985 to immerse students in a global issue which culminates in an annual symposium of scholars and experts from the field.

The Crane Theological School was opened in 1869 and closed in 1968.

Academics

Rankings

Tufts' undergraduate program is ranked #28 overall on U.S. News & World Report's 2009-2010 rankings of national universities tied with the Wake Forest University, tied for #102 in Shanghai Jiao Tong University's 2007 Academic Ranking of World Universities, and #157 in the Times Higher Education 2008 World University Rankings. Tufts University has also been consistently ranked as #1 for best undergraduate International Relations programs in the country[citation needed] , including the 1996 Gourman Report published by the Princeton Review. Tufts is also named by Newsweek as one of the "25 New Ivies".

In the Princeton Review's 2006 Best 361 Colleges, Tufts was named #7 in a list of the 20 schools in the country where students are happiest, and #17 in a list of the 20 schools in the country with the best food. In the Princeton Review's 2010 Best 361 Colleges, Tufts was named #8 in a list of the 20 schools in the country with the best study abroad programs and experiences. In 2006, The Advocate College Guide for LGBT Students named Tufts one of the Top 20 "Best of the Best" LGBT-friendly colleges and universities.

Admissions

In the 2010 US News & World Report college rankings, Tufts ranked as one of the top 20 most selective universities in the nation. Tufts accepted 25.5% of applicants to its undergraduate Class of 2012, a 3% decrease from the previous year's admissions rate. Eighty-five percent of incoming freshmen ranked in the top 10% of their high school class. The average SAT score was 2122.

In selecting the Class of 2010, Dean of Arts and Sciences Robert Sternberg added experimental criteria to the application process for undergraduates to test "creativity and other non-academic factors." Calling it the "first major university to try such a departure from the norm," Inside Higher Ed also notes that Tufts continues to consider the SAT and other traditional criteria.

Libraries

The Tufts University Library System contains over 3 million volumes. The main library, Tisch Library, holds about 2.5 million volumes, with other holdings dispersed at subject libraries which include the Hirsh Health Sciences Library on the Medical campus in Boston, the Edwin Ginn Library at the Fletcher School, the Lilly Music Library in the Granoff Music Center, and Webster Library at the Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine on the Grafton campus.

Undergraduate Majors & Minors

Liberal Arts Majors:

• American Studies
• Anthropology
• Applied Physics
• Archaeology
• Architectural Studies
• Art History
• Asian Studies
• Astrophysics
• Biochemistry
• (Co-administered by Biology and Chemistry)
• Biology
• Biomedical Engineering Systems*
• Biopsychology (Co-administered by Biology and Psychology)
• Biotechnology*
• Chemical Physics
• Chemistry
• Child Development
• Chinese
• Classical Studies
• Cognitive Science
• Community Health*
• Computer Science
• Drama
• Economics
• Engineering Psychology
• English
• Environmental Studies*
• French
• Geological Sciences
• Geology
• German Language and Literature
• German Studies
• Greek
• Greek and Latin Studies
• History
• International Letters and Visual Studies
• International Relations
• Italian Studies
• Japanese
• Judaic Studies
• Latin
• Latin American Studies
• Mathematics
• Middle Eastern Studies
• Music
• Peace and Justice Studies
• Philosophy
• Physics
• Political Science
• Psychology
• Psychology/Clinical Concentration
• Quantitative Economics
• Religion
• Russian Language and Literature
• Russian and Eastern European Studies
• Sociology
• Spanish
• Women's Studies

Liberal Arts Minors:

• Africa in the New World
• Arabic
• Architectural Studies
• Architectural Engineering
• Art History
• Asian Studies
• Astronomy
• Biomedical Engineering
• Biotechnology Engineering
• Child Development
• Chinese
• Computer Science
• Drama and Dance
• Economics
• English
• Entrepreneurial Leadership
• Ethnic Groups in America
• Film Studies
• Geoengineering
• German
• Greek
• Greek Archaeology
• Greek Civilization
• History
• Italian
• Japanese
• Judaic Studies
• Latin
• Leadership Studies
• Mass Communications and Media Studies
• Mathematics
• Medieval Studies
• Multimedia Arts
• Music
• Philosophy
• Physics
• Political Science
• Religion
• Religious Studies
• Roman Archaeology
• Roman Civilization
• Russian
• Sociology
• Studio Art
• Urban Studies
• Women's Studies

* Available as a second major

Engineering Majors:

• Biomedical Engineering
• Chemical Engineering
• Civil Engineering
• Computer Engineering
• Computer Science
• Environmental Engineering
• Mechanical Engineering
• Engineering Psychology
• Engineering Physics
• Engineering Science
• Engineering - Architectural Studies
• Engineering - Environmental Health
• Engineering - General

Engineering Minors:

• Architectural Engineering
• Biomedical Engineering
• Biotechnology Engineering
• Computer Science
• Engineering Management
• Entreprenurial Leadership Studies
• Geoengineering
• Multimedia Arts
• Musical Instrument Engineering
• All minors offered by the School of Arts & Sciences are open to Engineering students

Additional Degree Options:

• Architectural Studies
• Biomedical Engineering*
• Biotechnology*
• Computer Engineering
• Computer Science
• Engineering Science
• Engineering Physics
• Engineering Psychology
• Environmental Health
• Environmental Studies*
• Manufacturing Engineering
• Available as a second major

Graduate Degree Programs

Bioengineering (M.E., M.S.)
Concentrations in:

• Bioinformatics
• Biomaterials
• Biomechanical Systems and Devices
• Cell and Bioprocess Engineering
• Environmental Biotechnology
• Signals and Systems

Biomedical Engineering (M.E., M.S., Ph.D.)
Biotechnology Engineering (Ph.D.)
Chemical Engineering (M.E., M.S., Ph.D.)
Civil and Environmental Engineering (M.E., M.S., Ph.D.)
Concentrations in:

• Environmental Engineering
• Infrastructure Engineering
• Geotechnical and Geo-Environmental Engineering
• Structural Engineering
• Water Resources Engineering
• Environmental Health
• Environmental and Water Resources Engineering

Computer Science (M.S., Ph.D.)
Electrical Engineering (M.S., Ph.D.)
Human Factors (M.S.)
Mechanical Engineering (M.E., M.S., Ph.D.)
Engineering Management (M.S.E.M.)

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