Academics Tufts University

1 academics

1.1 admissions

1.1.1 undergraduate admissions
1.1.2 graduate admissions


1.2 rankings
1.3 collaborations
1.4 libraries , museums

academics
admissions

bendetson hall, on medford/somerville campus, houses office of undergraduate admissions.


undergraduate admissions

undergraduate admission tufts characterized carnegie foundation more selective, lower transfer-in . class of 2020, tufts accepted 2,889 or 14.3% of 20,223 applicants. school of arts , sciences accepted 14.9% of applicants while school of engineering accepted 11.7%. transfer acceptance rate 5.6%. according dean of undergraduate admissions lee coffin, admissions team still deemed 8,108 students, or 40 percent of application pool, potentially qualified admission. coffin went on detail number of spots enrollment @ university can offer @ 1,325 1,310 last year. matriculating class of 2016, 91% of incoming freshmen ranked in top 10% of high school class (up 1 percent previous year).

on 4 april 2016, university announced that, class of 2020, mean sat scores 727 in critical reading , 738 in math, , mean act score 32. among students schools made class rank available, mean ranking in top 4 percent .

in 2006, dean of arts , sciences robert sternberg added experimental criteria application process undergraduates test creativity , other non-academic factors , including inviting applicants submit youtube videos supplement application. calling first major university try such departure norm , inside higher ed notes tufts continues consider sat , other traditional criteria.

dean of undergraduate admissions lee coffin announced on april 7, 2015 tufts accepting undocumented students , without deferred action childhood arrivals (daca). coffin said undocumented students no longer considered international students, rather domestic students. due activism of social justice group united immigrant justice. first cohort of undocumented students in class of 2019.

carmichael hall on residence quad


graduate admissions

the graduate schools each hold own admission process. students apply directly graduate program seeking acceptance, , acceptance rates vary dramatically between programs.

rankings

in 2016, forbes ranked tufts 12th among research universities, , ranked undergraduate school 18th in america s top colleges ranking, includes military academies, national universities, , liberal arts colleges. additionally, vault.com s 2013 rankings placed tufts undergraduate school 25th in nation. 2014 parchment student choice college rankings, tracks enrollment decisions of 253,440 students have been accepted multiple schools in order reveal preference chosen school compared other schools admitted student, ranks tufts #17 nationally , #13 national universities student preference. according u.s. news & world report s 2018 college rankings, tufts ranks 29th in nation, high school guidance counselors ranking tied 22nd, , 173rd globally. in 2015, times higher education world university rankings placed tufts tied 127th in world. university ranks in no. 101-150 range in 2015 academic ranking of world universities , 252nd in 2015 qs world university rankings. additionally, class enrolling fall 2013, forbes placed tufts among top 20 in top 100 colleges ranked sat scores . tufts peer schools according u.s. news & world report in 2015 include columbia, university of pennsylvania, dartmouth, , brown.

foreign policy ranked tufts fletcher school of law , diplomacy 4th in world international relations in 2009. u.s. news & world report 2017 ranks tufts tied 58th engineering among schools grant phd degrees, , ranks tufts medical school , research institute tied 52nd in primary care , tied 49th in research, while sackler school ranks 68th in rankings of best graduate schools, biological sciences. boston school of occupational therapy, entry-level masters program within graduate school of arts & sciences @ tufts, ranks 6th in u.s. news & world report s best occupational therapy programs. tufts m.a. program in philosophy ranks 1st in united states in terms of faculty quality.

tufts named newsweek 1 of 25 new ivies in 2006. in princeton review s 2010–2011 best 363 colleges , tufts ranked 14th happiest students , study abroad program ranked 3rd in country. according october 2010 rankings compiled chronicle of higher education, tufts ranked 12th in country (tied both harvard , johns hopkins) 17 fulbright scholars. tufts ranks 4th among medium-sized schools number of teach america volunteers produces. because of continual growth institution, tufts ranked 5th hottest school of decade 2000–10. tufts ranked 450th top college in united states payscale , collegenet s social mobility index college rankings.

collaborations

students can pursue five-year program new england conservatory. cosmology department offers joint seminars mit. organized alan guth , alexander vilenkin, seminars open students. fletcher school operates dual degree programs harvard law school, tuck school of business @ dartmouth, uc berkeley school of law among others. several academic consortiums allow research collaboration between local schools. examples exist program on negotiation, rotc, tufts-new england medical center, center european studies, , school of engineering. several exchange programs allow students study @ graduate institute of international , development studies in geneva , sciences po in paris. cross registration exists undergraduate students schools in boston consortium. fletcher , other graduate students may cross register graduate schools @ harvard , mit.

entrance tisch library, main library on campus

tufts has offered study abroad programs various universities past 40 years. tufts has semester , year long programs pembroke college of university of oxford, university college london, royal holloway university of london, school of oriental , african studies, university of paris, sciences po paris, university of tübingen, zhejiang university, , university of hong kong. every year more 500 undergraduate students study abroad, doing during junior , senior years.

libraries , museums

ginn library @ fletcher school

completed in 1908, tufts first library building, eaton memorial library (now eaton hall), made possible donation andrew carnegie. carnegie s wife requested building named after tufts graduate, reverend charles eaton, had presided on wedding. building received extension in 1950 construction of war memorial library in honor of tufts alumni served in world war ii. 1965 collection outgrew building , moved new library named wessell library. additionally demand more square footage prompted expansion of wessell. in 1995, addition of 80,000 more square feet, library renamed tisch library.

today tufts university library system contains on 3 million volumes. main library, tisch library, holds 2.7 million volumes, other holdings dispersed @ subject libraries including hirsh health sciences library on boston campus, edwin ginn library @ fletcher school, , webster family library @ cummings school of veterinary medicine on grafton campus. students have access academic libraries of institutions in boston consortium. tufts member of shares, allows students have library access in participating members such brown, columbia, cornell, caltech, dartmouth, johns hopkins, northwestern, princeton, stanford, upenn , yale. furthermore, students may apply privileges harvard s library system. tufts runs perseus project, digital library project assembles digital collections of humanities resources.

in addition barnum museum of natural history, tufts had established permanent art collection includes wide range of art antiquity present. collection comprises 2,000 works ancient mediterranean , pre-hispanic cultures modern , contemporary painting, sculpture, , photography. notable highlights in permanent collection include works john singer sargent, albrecht dürer, isamu noguchi, auguste rodin, andy warhol, milton resnick, salvador dali, , pablo picasso among others. exhibitions of collection rotate annually in aidekman arts center.