Tufts University is a private institution that was founded in 1852. It is located in the Medford/Somerville area of Massachusetts. It has a total undergraduate enrollment of 5,180, its setting is suburban, and the campus size is 150 acres. It utilizes a semester-based academic calendar.
Tufts ranked 27th in 2015 edition of Best Colleges in National Universities. In 2014, Forbes ranked Tufts 15th among Research Universities, and ranked the undergraduate school 25th in its Americas Top Colleges ranking, which includes military academies, national universities, and liberal arts colleges
Tufts is comprised of the School of Arts and Sciences; the School of Engineering, which serves both undergraduate and graduate students; and a number of graduate and professional schools. Included in its graduate programs are the highly ranked School of
Medicine and Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine. The School of Dental
Medicine and Fletcher School for international affairs are other notable graduate schools. Tufts’ permanent art collection features works by Pablo Picasso, Andy Warhol and John Singer Sargent. Notable alumni include eBay founder Pierre Omidyar, Golden Globe-winning actor Peter Gallagher and Guster guitarist and vocalist Adam Gardner. Both Gallagher and Gardner sang in the Beelzebubs.
About half of the student body participates in study abroad programs, and approximately 15 percent of students are affiliated with Greek life. Tufts’ official mascot, Jumbo the elephant, is the only school mascot listed in Webster’s Dictionary.
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