OpenFieldTufts University · Medford, Massachusetts, United States
Tufts University is an elite private Carnegie R1 research university located across campuses in Medford/Somerville, Boston, and Grafton, Massachusetts. Renowned for The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy (the nation's oldest graduate school of international affairs), the Tufts School of Medicine, the School of Engineering, and the Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine, Tufts generates over $250M in annual research expenditures.
Tufts comprises ten constituent schools. Research powerhouses include the Center for Cellular Agriculture (pioneering cultivated meat), the Tufts Lyme Disease Initiative, the Allen Discovery Center (bioelectric regeneration), and the Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging (HNRCA).
Admissions are highly selective. Undergraduate applicants are reviewed holistically via the Common Application (test-optional). Graduate and professional programs require an accredited bachelor's degree with a 3.3+ GPA, program-specific standardized tests (GRE, MCAT, LSAT where required), statement of research objectives, and three letters of recommendation.
The gold standard in international affairs education, combining international law, diplomatic history, security studies, international economics, and sustainable development capstones.
Pioneering doctoral program at the Tufts Center for Cellular Agriculture, researching cultivated meat bioprocessing, silk biomaterial scaffolds, and 3D organoid modeling.
LCME-accredited medical doctorate renowned for clinical training at Tufts Medical Center, early clinical preceptorships, and integrated biomedical research pathways.
Cutting-edge doctoral research at the Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) Laboratory exploring ethical autonomous robots, natural language human-machine interfaces, and machine vision.
AVMA-accredited veterinary doctorate on a 594-acre campus in Grafton, MA, offering premier hospital rotations at Foster Hospital for Small Animals and Large Animal Hospital.
Prestigious research fellowship optimizing serum-free cell growth media, immortalized bovine and fish cell lines, and sustainable food biomanufacturing scale-up.
President & Professor of Electrical Engineering
Office of the President
Dr. Sunil Kumar is the 14th president of Tufts University, an operations research and electrical engineering scholar who previously served as provost of Johns H...
View researcher profile ↗Stern Family Endowed Professor of Engineering & Director of TUCCA
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Dr. David Kaplan is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and world authority on biomaterials, pioneering silk-based tissue scaffolds and founding the...
View researcher profile ↗Vannevar Bush Professor & Director of Allen Discovery Center
Department of Biology
Dr. Michael Levin is an internationally celebrated developmental biophysicist who pioneered developmental bioelectricity, synthetic morphology, and biological r...
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