About Tufts University

Tufts University is a highly selective liberal arts school that is recognized among the premier universities in the United States. From its beginnings in 1852 as a small liberal arts college, Tufts has grown to encompass four campuses and a multitude of connections to academic programs in all corners of the world; it has also developed a reputation for educating students for leadership positions in today's rapidly changing, multicultural, and technologically-based international community.

Tufts' Medford/Somerville campus houses the Arts and Sciences and Engineering schools, offering undergraduate programs in the humanities, sciences, social sciences, fine and performing arts, and engineering. Its European campus in the French Alps specializes in academic programs that emphasize the importance of international relations and cross-cultural study.

The university has achieved international distinction through its graduate programs on the Medford/Somerville campus in the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy and the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. The medical and dental schools and the Gerald J. and Dorothy R. Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy on the Boston campus are among the best in their professions. The veterinary school on the Grafton campus is world renowned, in addition to being the only veterinary school in New England.