Editing Tufts University (section)

==Academics==
===Rankings===
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In the 2025 ''[[U.S. News & World Report Best Colleges Ranking]]'', Tufts ranked 37th in the nation.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2023 |title=Tufts University |url=https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/tufts-university-2219 |access-date=25 September 2024 |website=[[U.S. News & World Report Best Colleges Ranking]]}}</ref>

''[[Forbes]]'' ranked the undergraduate school 36th among private colleges in its 2024-25 America's Top Colleges ranking, which includes 500 military academies, national universities, and liberal arts colleges.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Forbes America's Top Colleges List 2025 - Best US Universities Ranked |url=https://www.forbes.com/top-colleges/ |access-date=2025-02-20 |website=Forbes |language=English}}</ref>  Tufts University is [[Higher education accreditation in the United States|accredited]] by the [[New England Commission of Higher Education]].<ref>{{Citation|title=Massachusetts Institutions – NECHE|publisher=[[New England Commission of Higher Education]]|url=https://www.neche.org/institutions/ma/|access-date=May 26, 2021}}</ref>

Tufts was named by ''[[Newsweek]]'' as one of the "25 New [[Ivy League|Ivies]]" in 2006.<ref name="New Ivy">{{cite news|url=http://www.newsweek.com/id/39401|title=25 New Ivies|work=[[Newsweek]]|date=August 21, 2006|access-date=December 12, 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071214033858/http://www.newsweek.com/id/39401|archive-date=December 14, 2007|url-status=live}}</ref> In ''[[The Princeton Review]]''{{'s}} 2010–2011 "Best 363 Colleges", Tufts was ranked 14th for the happiest students and its study abroad program was ranked third in the country.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.princetonreview.com/Schoollist.aspx?type=r&id=712|title=College Education – Scholarships – Admission – The Princeton Review|access-date=August 3, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150330132823/http://www.princetonreview.com/schoollist.aspx?type=r&id=712|archive-date=March 30, 2015|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.princetonreview.com/Schoollist.aspx?type=r&id=675|title=College Education – Scholarships – Admission – The Princeton Review|access-date=August 3, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150330085055/http://www.princetonreview.com/Schoollist.aspx?type=r&id=675|archive-date=March 30, 2015|url-status=live}}</ref> According to the October 2010 rankings compiled by ''[[The Chronicle of Higher Education]]'', Tufts ranked 12th in the country (tied with both [[Harvard]] and [[Johns Hopkins University|Johns Hopkins]]) with 17 [[Fulbright Program|Fulbright scholars]].<ref>{{cite news|title=Top Producers of U.S. Fulbright Students by Type of Institution, 2010–11|url=http://chronicle.com/article/Table-Top-Producers-of-US/125073|newspaper=[[The Chronicle of Higher Education]]|access-date=November 13, 2010|date=October 24, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110611210536/http://chronicle.com/article/Table-Top-Producers-of-US/125073|archive-date=June 11, 2011|url-status=live}}</ref> Tufts also ranks fourth among medium-sized schools for the number of [[Teach for America]] volunteers it produces.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.tuftsdaily.com/news/tufts-among-top-teach-for-america-colleges-1.2836176#.UjsPNYakqFk |title=Dating at Notre Dame: The Remix // The Observer |publisher=Tuftsdaily.com |access-date=August 14, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140419015314/http://www.tuftsdaily.com/news/tufts-among-top-teach-for-america-colleges-1.2836176#.UjsPNYakqFk |archive-date=April 19, 2014 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Because of its continual growth as an institution, Tufts was ranked as the fifth "hottest school" of the decade from 2000 to 2010.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.thedailybeast.com/galleries/2009/12/13/the-decade-s-hottest-schools.html#slide5|title=The Decade's Hottest Schools|newspaper=The Daily Beast|date=December 13, 2009|access-date=July 6, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140703213742/http://www.thedailybeast.com/galleries/2009/12/13/the-decade-s-hottest-schools.html#slide5|archive-date=July 3, 2014|url-status=live}}</ref> Tufts was ranked the 450th top college in the United States by Payscale and CollegeNet's Social Mobility Index college rankings.<ref>{{cite web| title = Social Mobility Index| website = Social Mobility Index| publisher = CollegeNet and PayScale| date = 2014| url = http://socialmobilityindex.org/| access-date = June 5, 2015| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150524132827/http://www.socialmobilityindex.org/| archive-date = May 24, 2015| url-status = live}}</ref>

===Admissions===
====Undergraduate admissions====
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''U.S. News & World Report'' names Tufts' undergraduate admission as "most selective".<ref name=":2">{{cite web |title=Applying to Tufts University &#124; US News Best Colleges |url=https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/tufts-university-2219/applying |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180912215859/https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/tufts-university-2219/applying |archive-date=September 12, 2018 |access-date=September 12, 2018}}</ref> For the class of 2027, Tufts admitted 10% of 34,002 applicants.<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://provost.tufts.edu/institutionalresearch/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/Fact-Book-2023-24-Admissions.pdf | title=SAT Reasoning/ACT Test Scores of Entering Class - Fall of Year Shown | access-date=2024-07-24}}</ref> The number of places in the freshmen class is set at approximately 1,600 students.<ref>{{cite web |title=2021-2022 Common Data Set |url=https://provost.tufts.edu/institutionalresearch/files/CDS-2021-2022.pdf |access-date=May 10, 2022}}</ref> For the class of 2024, the interquartile range of SAT scores was 1420–1550 while for the ACT it was 33–35.<ref>{{cite web |title=Accepted Student Profile |url=https://admissions.tufts.edu/apply/enrolled-student-profile/ |access-date=2021-08-15 |website=Tufts Admissions |language=en}}</ref>

Since 2006 Tufts has incorporated experimental criteria into the application process for undergraduates to test "creativity and other non-academic factors", including inviting applicants to submit [[YouTube]] videos to supplement their application.<ref>{{cite news |last=Lewin |first=Tamar |date=February 22, 2010 |title=To Impress, Tufts Prospects Turn to YouTube |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/23/education/23tufts.html |url-status=live |access-date=May 26, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100309164107/http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/23/education/23tufts.html |archive-date=March 9, 2010}}</ref> 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.<ref>Jaschik, Scott (2006). [http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2006/07/06/tufts A "Rainbow" Approach to Admissions] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060717014627/http://insidehighered.com/news/2006/07/06/tufts|date=July 17, 2006}}. [[Inside Higher Ed]], July 6, 2006.</ref><ref>McAnerny, Kelly (2005). [http://www.tuftsdaily.com/media/storage/paper856/news/2005/11/15/News/From-Sternberg.A.New.Take.On.What.Makes.Kids.TuftsWorthy-1492093.shtml?norewrite200607062142&sourcedomain=www.tuftsdaily.com From Sternberg, a new take on what makes kids Tufts-worthy] {{Webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20120919171612/http://www.tuftsdaily.com/media/storage/paper856/news/2005/11/15/News/From-Sternberg.A.New.Take.On.What.Makes.Kids.TuftsWorthy-1492093.shtml?norewrite200607062142&sourcedomain=www.tuftsdaily.com|date=September 19, 2012}}. [[Tufts Daily]], November 15, 2005.</ref> Tufts accepts [[Illegal immigration|illegal immigrant]]<!--Also called "undocumented" for people who wish to not give them stigma - Wikipedia uses "Illegal immigration" and "Illegal immigrant" in that article, so "illegal immigrant" is the most "neutral" word--> students with and without [[Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals|Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA)]]. Undocumented students are not considered international students, but rather domestic students.

In 1856, shortly after Tufts opened, its admissions application asked for statements of good character and for students to complete examinations in Greek, history, Latin, and mathematics. As part of these examinations, they were asked to study a list of relevant textbooks. By 1905 the admissions requirements became lengthier, and the examinations became more complex; the latter required students to write essays and translations. Julia Ryan of ''[[The Atlantic]]'' wrote that because students certified by the New England College Entrance Certificate Board, ones who attended private preparatory schools in New England, were exempt from the examinations, "perhaps only a few students were even taking [the entrance examinations]."<ref name="RyanJuliaHowGetting">{{cite magazine |author=Ryan, Julia |date=November 11, 2013 |title=How Getting Into College Became Such a Long, Frenzied, Competitive Process |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2013/11/how-getting-into-college-became-such-a-long-frenzied-competitive-process/281336/ |url-status=live |magazine=[[The Atlantic]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180831072040/https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2013/11/how-getting-into-college-became-such-a-long-frenzied-competitive-process/281336/ |archive-date=August 31, 2018 |access-date=August 31, 2018}}</ref> By 1925 Tufts set an admission quota of 650 males; the examinations were of a similar length of the 1905 ones but the entry requirements decreased in size to a level comparable of that of the 1856 ones. Standardized testing, admissions interviews, and other features of current university admissions processes were in place by 1946.<ref name="RyanJuliaHowGetting" />

===Collaborations===
[[File:Aidekman Arts Center, Tufts University.jpg|thumb|Aidekman Arts Center, Tufts University]]
Students can pursue a five-year program with the [[New England Conservatory]]. The Cosmology department also offers joint seminars with MIT. Organized by [[Alan Guth]] and [[Alexander Vilenkin]], the seminars are open to all students.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://cosmos2.phy.tufts.edu/joint-seminar/ | title=Joint Tufts/MIT Cosmology Seminars | publisher=Tufts University | year=2016 | access-date=March 24, 2016 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160406195056/http://cosmos2.phy.tufts.edu/joint-seminar/ | archive-date=April 6, 2016 | url-status=dead }}</ref> The Fletcher School also operates dual degree programs with [[Harvard Law School]], [[Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth]], and [[UC Berkeley School of Law]], among others.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://fletcher.tufts.edu/Academic/Joint-and-Dual-Programs | title=Joint and Dual Programs | publisher=Tufts University | year=2016 | access-date=March 20, 2016 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160331163952/http://fletcher.tufts.edu/Academic/Joint-and-Dual-Programs | archive-date=March 31, 2016 | url-status=dead }}</ref> Several academic consortiums allow for research collaboration between local schools. Examples exist with the [[Program on Negotiation]],<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.pon.harvard.edu/courses-and-training/3-day/special-three-day-combined-program_/|title=Program on Negotiation|website=www.pon.harvard.edu|publisher=Harvard University|access-date=July 4, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170516154323/https://www.pon.harvard.edu/courses-and-training/3-day/special-three-day-combined-program_/|archive-date=May 16, 2017|url-status=dead}}</ref> the [[ROTC]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://mitadmissions.org/mit-docs/ROTC(2012).pdf|title=ROTC|website=mitadmissions.org|publisher=MIT Admissions|access-date=July 4, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171005203012/http://mitadmissions.org/mit-docs/ROTC(2012).pdf|archive-date=October 5, 2017|url-status=dead}}</ref> the [[Tufts-New England Medical Center]],<ref>{{cite web|title=Research Training Program in Medical Informatics |url=http://groups.csail.mit.edu/medg/ftp/psz/greenes.pdf | website=groups.csail.mit.edu | publisher=MIT | language=en-US | access-date=July 4, 2017}}</ref> the [[University College London|Center for European Studies]],<ref>{{cite web|title=Center for European Studies|website=fas.harvard.edu|url=https://ces.fas.harvard.edu/opportunities/graduate-students/graduate-council-of-professional-students|access-date=July 4, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161208230212/https://ces.fas.harvard.edu/opportunities/graduate-students/graduate-council-of-professional-students|archive-date=December 8, 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref> and the School of Engineering.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tufts-ten.com/idhack/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170525164712/http://www.tufts-ten.com/idhack/|url-status=dead|archive-date=May 25, 2017|title=Tufts Entrepreneurial Network|website=www.tufts-ten.com|publisher=Tufts University|access-date=July 4, 2017}}</ref> Several exchange programs allow students to study at the [[Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies]] in Geneva and the [[Sciences Po]] in Paris.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://fletcher.tufts.edu/Academic/Exchange-Programs | title=Exchange Programs | publisher=Tufts University | year=2016 | access-date=February 4, 2019 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180823182737/http://fletcher.tufts.edu/Academic/Exchange-Programs | archive-date=August 23, 2018 | url-status=dead | df=mdy-all }}</ref> Cross registration exists for undergraduate students with schools in the Boston Consortium. Fletcher and other graduate students may cross register with the graduate schools at Harvard and MIT.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://students.tufts.edu/registrar/what-we-assist/course-registration-and-scheduling/cross-registration | title=Cross-Registration | publisher=Tufts University | year=2016 | access-date=March 20, 2016 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160324015346/http://students.tufts.edu/registrar/what-we-assist/course-registration-and-scheduling/cross-registration | archive-date=March 24, 2016 | url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://courses.harvard.edu/crossregistration.html | title=Cross-Registration | publisher=Harvard University | year=2016 | access-date=March 20, 2016 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160401031641/https://courses.harvard.edu/crossregistration.html | archive-date=April 1, 2016 | url-status=dead }}</ref>

Tufts has offered study abroad programs with various universities for the past 40 years. Tufts has semester and year long programs with [[Pembroke College, Oxford|Pembroke College]] of the [[University of Oxford]], [[University College London]], [[Royal Holloway University of London]], [[School of Oriental and African Studies]], [[University of Paris]], [[Sciences Po Paris]], [[École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts]], [[University of Tübingen]], [[Zhejiang University]], and [[University of Hong Kong]].<ref name="Tufts Programs">{{cite web |year=2016 |title=Tufts Programs |url=https://students.tufts.edu/study-abroad/tufts-programs |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160323201622/http://students.tufts.edu/study-abroad/tufts-programs |archive-date=March 23, 2016 |access-date=March 20, 2016 |publisher=Tufts University}}</ref> Every year more than 500 undergraduate students study abroad, with most doing it during their junior and senior years.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://students.tufts.edu/study-abroad/non-tufts-programs | title=Non-Tufts programs | publisher=Tufts University | year=2016 | access-date=March 20, 2016 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160323185531/http://students.tufts.edu/study-abroad/non-tufts-programs | archive-date=March 23, 2016 | url-status=dead }}</ref>

Tufts is an active member of the [[University of the Arctic]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Members |url=https://www.uarctic.org/members/member-profiles/ |access-date=2025-03-06 |website=UArctic |language=en-US}}</ref> UArctic is an international cooperative network based in the Circumpolar Arctic region, consisting of more than 200 universities, colleges, and other organizations with an interest in promoting education and research in the Arctic region.<ref>{{Cite web |title=About Us |url=https://www.uarctic.org/about-us/ |access-date=2025-03-06 |website=UArctic - University of the Arctic |language=en-US}}</ref>

===Archives, libraries, and museums===
[[File:Tufts Tisch library entrance.JPG|thumb|Entrance to Tisch Library, the main library on campus]]Completed in 1908, Tufts' first library building, Eaton Memorial Library (now Eaton Hall), was made possible with a donation from [[Andrew Carnegie]]. Carnegie's wife requested that the building be named after a Tufts graduate, Reverend Charles Eaton, who had presided over her wedding. The building received an extension in 1950 with the construction of the War Memorial Library in honor of the Tufts alumni who served in [[World War II]]. By 1965 the collection outgrew the building and was moved to a new library named Wessell Library. Additionally, the demand for more square footage prompted the expansion of Wessell. In 1995, with the addition of {{convert|80,000|sqft}}, the library was renamed [[Tisch Library]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://emerald.tufts.edu/alumni/pdfs/then&now.pdf |title=Tufts Then & Now |publisher=Tufts University |access-date=August 24, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160403050314/http://emerald.tufts.edu/alumni/pdfs/then%26now.pdf |archive-date=April 3, 2016 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

Today the [[Tufts University Libraries|Tufts University Library System]] contains over three million volumes. The main library, Tisch Library, holds about 2.7 million volumes, with other holdings dispersed at subject libraries including the Hirsh Health Sciences Library on the Boston campus, the Edwin Ginn Library at the Fletcher School, and Webster Family Library at the Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine on the Grafton campus.<ref name="Tufts University Fact Book 2015/2016">{{cite web | url = http://provost.tufts.edu/institutionalresearch/files/Fact-Book-2015-16_Final.pdf | publisher = Tufts University | title = Tufts University Fact Book | work = Tufts University Fact Book 2015/2016 | date = <!-- (undated) --> | access-date = August 24, 2016 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160623190408/http://provost.tufts.edu/institutionalresearch/files/Fact-Book-2015-16_Final.pdf | archive-date = June 23, 2016 | url-status = dead }}</ref> Students have access to the academic libraries of institutions in the Boston Consortium. Tufts is also a member of SHARES, which allows students to have library access in participating members such as [[Brown University|Brown]], [[Columbia University|Columbia]], [[Cornell University|Cornell]], [[Caltech]], [[Dartmouth College|Dartmouth]], [[Johns Hopkins University|Johns Hopkins]], [[Northwestern University|Northwestern]], [[Princeton University|Princeton]], [[Stanford University|Stanford]], [[UPenn]] and [[Yale]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.oclc.org/content/dam/research/activities/shares/partners/symbols.pdf |title=Participating Libraries |work=OCLC Research |access-date=March 22, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160404122728/http://www.oclc.org/content/dam/research/activities/shares/partners/symbols.pdf |archive-date=April 4, 2016 |url-status=live }}</ref> Furthermore, students may apply for privileges to [[Harvard Library|Harvard's Library System]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://tischlibrary.tufts.edu/use-library/borrow-renew-or-request/how-borrow-another-library|title=Tisch Library|work=Tufts University|access-date=March 21, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151017175758/https://tischlibrary.tufts.edu/use-library/borrow-renew-or-request/how-borrow-another-library|archive-date=October 17, 2015|url-status=dead}}</ref> Tufts also runs the [[Perseus Project]], a digital library project that assembles digital collections of humanities resources.

In addition to the [[Barnum Museum of Natural History]], Tufts had established a permanent art collection which includes a wide range of art from antiquity to the present. The Collection comprises 2,000 works from ancient Mediterranean and pre-Hispanic cultures to modern and contemporary painting, sculpture, and photography. Notable highlights in the permanent collection include works by [[John Singer Sargent]], [[Albrecht Dürer]], [[Isamu Noguchi]], [[Auguste Rodin]], [[Andy Warhol]], [[Milton Resnick]], [[Salvador Dalí]], and [[Pablo Picasso]] among others. Exhibitions of the collection rotate annually in the Aidekman Arts Center.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://artgallery.tufts.edu/collection/index.htm |title=About the University Permanent Art Collection |work=Tufts University |access-date=May 31, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160623222726/http://artgallery.tufts.edu/collection/index.htm |archive-date=June 23, 2016 |url-status=dead }}</ref>