About Tufts

Tufts is a leader in American higher education, distinctive for its success as a moderately sized university that excels at research and providing students with a personal experience. Our unique combination of research and liberal arts attracts students, faculty and staff who thrive in our environment of curiosity, creativity and engagement.

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Tufts at a Glance

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Libraries

Tufts' libraries across all campuses provide essential resources, information and technology to support your studies, scholarship and research.

Tisch Library

Ginn Library (The Fletcher School)

Hirsh Health Sciences Library

Webster Family Library (Veterinary)

W. Van Alan Clark, Jr. Library (SMFA)

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Careers

As a Tufts employee, you become part of a community of hard-working, intellectually curious and creative individuals. We offer a wide range of employment opportunities and resources to support Tufts’ diverse academic environment

Jobs at Tufts

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Brighter World The Campaign for Tufts

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Arts at Tufts

Our students perform, create, and research the arts in concert halls, theaters, art studios, galleries, libraries, labs, and classrooms at Tufts and in its surrounding communities. Explore the Arts at Tufts.

New & Notable

Making a New World in Virtual Reality

An art school professor and his students talk about the vast potential of VR—and their work in it

Emerging Artists Showcase Work at Virtual Art Gallery

Graduating students at School of Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University to display work online, allowing safe access for art lovers
Drawing on Art to Create Community

For SMFA senior Maria Fong, art has been central to her life and identity
Training Teachers on Educational Technology, Now and for the Future

The Early Childhood Technology graduate certificate program empowers educators of young children to evaluate and use technologies as tools through which children can learn and create
This Designer Sets the Scene for Movies and TV

From Don Draper’s chic Park Avenue apartment to a modest house with macrame plant hangers, the sets Tufts graduate Christopher L. Brown designs speak volumes about the characters who inhabit them

Spotlights

Creative Writing

The Department of English offers classes in poetry, fiction, non-fiction, and journalism as part of the Creative Writing program, offered to both its majors and minors.
Drama & Dance

Drama programs at Tufts bring together hundreds of students to perform in three faculty-directed productions and over a dozen student-directed and designed shows each year. Dance courses cover a vast range of styles including African and Latin dance, ballet, kathak, hip hop, jazz, modern and musical theatre.
Art History

Located in the greater Boston area, Tufts is an ideal place to study the history and theory of art and architectural studies from interdisciplinary and global perspectives. Students have the opportunity to get involved in the galleries on the Medford/Somerville and SMFA campuses or visit the many prominent museums in the Boston area such as the world-class Museum of Fine Arts.
Tufts University Art Galleries

The Tufts University Art Galleries engage with artists, scholars, and works of art to provoke conversation around today’s pressing cultural and social issues. Through exhibitions and programming focused on contemporary art, alongside broader research and collecting, we provide a pedagogical space for the Tufts community and wider publics. The Art Galleries are located in the Aidekman Arts Center on the university’s main Medford campus and at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts (SMFA at Tufts) in Boston.
Music

Housed in the state-of-the-art Granoff Music Center, the Department of Music offers a rich array of classes, embracing music in forms from many different backgrounds, traditions, and cultures. Experience music in ways you can only begin to imagine with additional offerings made possible by the Music Engineering program, the university’s collaboration with the New England Conservatory, and the Community Music Program.
Film and Media Studies

Officially recognized as a major and minor in 2015, FMS includes core courses in film and media analysis, history, theory and production, supplemented by electives in a variety of academic departments and programs.