Cognitive Studies Graduate Programs

Graduate study in philosophy at Tufts is limited to the MA program (click here for more information). Doctoral programs are offered in Psychology and Computer Science, each of which include research in cognitive science. Tufts does offer a "one-of-a-kind" PhD program, which would permit an individual to design a PhD in cognitive science, but this is almost never an advisable course to pursue. Most candidates wanting to work specifically in cognitive science will be much better off in one of the excellent cognitive science programs at other universities, such as those at (in alphabetical order):

Boston University	Sheffield University	University of Oregon
Brown University	Stanford University	University of Pennsylvania
Columbia Univ.	SUNY-Buffalo	Univ. of Pittsburgh/Carnegie Mellon
Georgia Tech	Univ. of Arizona	University of Rochester
Indiana University	Univ. of Birmingham	University of Sheffield
John Hopkins Univ.	Univ. of CA-Irvine	University of Sussex
Lehigh Univ.	Univ. of CA-San Diego	University of S. California
MIT	Univ. of CO-Boulder	University of Virginia
Northwestern Univ.	Univ. of Edinburgh	Vassar Univ.
Ohio State Univ.	Univ. of IL-Champaign-Urbana	Washington University
Rutgers Univ.	Univ. of Maryland-College Park	Middle East Technical University, Turkey

This is not a complete list, nor does it imply any sort of ranking. Some of the programs may only offer Master's or combined degrees. The Center for Cognitive Studies does offer a Research Associate position (click here for the most recent position description), for advanced graduate students or post-docs. In the past this has been used on occasion to permit Prof. Dennett to serve on the dissertation committee of a doctoral candidate at another university, but obviously no advance arrangements can be made, since competition for the Research Associate position is stiff, and the requirements shift.