36 Facts About Tufts

Tufts University is a private research university on the border of Medford and Somerville, Massachusetts.

Tufts remained a small New England liberal arts college until the 1970s, when it transformed into a large research university offering several doctorates; it is classified as a "Research I university", denoting the highest level of research activity.

Tufts is a member of the Association of American Universities, a selective group of 64 leading research universities in North America.

Tufts offers over 90 undergraduate and 160 graduate programs across ten schools in the greater Boston area and Talloires, France.

Tufts has a campus in Downtown Boston that houses the medical, dental, and nutrition schools, as well as the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, affiliated with several medical centers in the area.

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Tufts has graduated four Rhodes Scholars, five Marshall Scholars, five Truman Scholars, and five Goldwater scholars.

Tufts became responsible for the development of the electric power and electric street car systems which many cities in South America and Europe used.

Tufts College added the Department of Mechanical Engineering and the Department of Chemical Engineering in 1894 and 1898, respectively.

Tufts expanded in 1933 with the opening of the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, the first graduate school of international affairs in the United States.

Tufts assumed full administration of the Fletcher School in 1935, and strong linkages between the two schools remain.

Under President Larry Bacow, Tufts started a capital campaign in 2006 with the goal of raising $1.

Tufts received the largest donations in its history since 2005, including a $136 million bequest to its endowment upon the dissolution of a charitable trust set up by 1911 alumnus Frank C Doble, a $100 million gift from eBay founder Pierre Omidyar to establish the Omidyar-Tufts Microfinance Fund, and a number of $40 million-plus gifts to specific schools.

Tufts had acquired the air rights from South Station in 1990, with former President Jean Meyer envisioning a tower that would be the center of medical research.

Administrative offices occupy the surrounding neighborhoods and nearby Davis Square, where Tufts makes payments in lieu of taxes on some of its tax-exempt properties.

School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University is located on Tufts Boston Fine Arts campus in the Fenway neighborhood of Boston, next door to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum.

Tufts has a satellite campus in Talloires, France at the Tufts European Center, a former Benedictine priory built in the 11th century.

Tufts University is an independent, privately supported, nonsectarian institution of higher education.

Since 2006 Tufts has incorporated experimental criteria into the application process for undergraduates to test "creativity and other non-academic factors", including inviting applicants to submit YouTube videos to supplement their application.

Tufts accepts illegal immigrant students with and without Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals .

In 1856, shortly after Tufts opened, its admissions application asked for statements of good character and for students to complete examinations in Greek, history, Latin, and mathematics.

Tufts University is accredited by the New England Commission of Higher Education.

Tufts was named by Newsweek as one of the "25 New Ivies" in 2006.

Tufts was ranked the 450th top college in the United States by Payscale and CollegeNet's Social Mobility Index college rankings.

Tufts has offered study abroad programs with various universities for the past 40 years.

Tufts has semester and year long programs with Pembroke College of the University of Oxford, University College London, Royal Holloway University of London, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of Paris, Sciences Po Paris, Ecole nationale superieure des Beaux-Arts, University of Tubingen, Zhejiang University, and University of Hong Kong.

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Tufts is a member of SHARES, which allows students to have library access in participating members such as Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Caltech, Dartmouth, Johns Hopkins, Northwestern, Princeton, Stanford, UPenn and Yale.

Tufts Daily is the daily student newspaper, and the Tufts Observer, established in 1895, is the school's biweekly magazine and the oldest publication on campus.

Tufts has a television station which has produced and broadcast films, news, soap operas, and comedy sketch pieces.

In 1969, Tufts was the center for Civil Rights activism due to the controversy surrounding the construction of Lewis Hall.

In 1970, Tufts adopted new hiring policies which were subsequently adopted by other universities.

The four national fraternities with active chapters at Tufts are Delta Tau Delta, Theta Chi, Zeta Beta Tau, and Zeta Psi.

Tufts competes in the New England Small College Athletic Conference—the NESCAC—in NCAA Division III.

Recently, Tufts has become one of the top athletic schools in Division III.

At one time Tufts was granted 200 race bibs a year and students, alumni, and other affiliates would be trained by Coach Donald Megerle from the Fall until the day itself, the current number of bibs per year is 50.

Tufts has a thriving a cappella scene, including the Beelzebubs, known for their performances on NBC's The Sing-Off and Glee, where the group arranged several of the songs performed by the fictional a cappella group The Warblers.

The fictional character Elaine Benes from Seinfeld claims that she attended Tufts, calling it her "safety school, " a common Tufts stereotype in the 1990s.