Tufts University
Medford, Massachusetts
- Private nonprofit
- Suburb
- 7,061 undergrads
- Admit rate
- 11%Source: College Scorecard
- Average net price
- $38,797per year, after grantsSource: College Scorecard
- Graduation rate
- 94%within 6 yearsSource: College Scorecard
- Median earnings
- $89,18710 years after startingSource: College Scorecard
What's special
Tufts' Experimental College offers small, participation-based courses on ideas shaping the world today.
Source: About | Experimental College
Getting in
- Admit rate
- 11%About 1 in 10 applicants get in.Source: College Scorecard
- Test policy
- Test-optionalScores are considered if you send them, but not required.Source: College Scorecard
- SAT (middle 50%)
- 1470–1560Reading + math, enrolled first-years who sent scoresSource: College Scorecard
- ACT (middle 50%)
- 33–35Composite, enrolled first-years who sent scoresSource: College Scorecard
From Tufts University's own report
These numbers come from the school's Common Data Set for 2025–26, a standard report colleges publish about their applicants and first-year students. Open the report.
- Admit rate in this report
- 11%3,613 admitted of 33,415 first-year applicants
- Off the wait list
- 6%71 admitted of 1,193 who stayed on the wait list (3,061 were offered a spot)
- SAT, middle 50%
- 1460–152042% of first-years sent SAT scores
- ACT, middle 50%
- 33–3516% of first-years sent ACT scores
- Top 10% of their class
- 87%96% were in the top quarter.
Where you'd stand
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Sources: Tufts University Common Data Set 2025–26. Test ranges describe enrolled students who sent scores.
What it really costs
Most families pay less than the sticker price. Net price is what's left after grants and scholarships.
- Average net price
- $38,797full-time first-years who got grant aidSource: College Scorecard
- Total cost of attendance
- $92,054sticker price incl. housing, per yearSource: College Scorecard
- Tuition
- $73,616Source: College Scorecard
After you enroll
- Graduation rate
- 94%first-time, full-time students finishing within 6 yearsSource: College Scorecard
- Came back for year two
- 96%full-time first-year studentsSource: College Scorecard
- Median earnings
- $89,18710 years after starting, for students who got federal aidSource: College Scorecard
- Median debt at graduation
- $16,250federal loans, students who finishedSource: College Scorecard
Students
- Undergraduates
- 7,061Source: College Scorecard
- Receive Pell grants
- 14%a sign of economic diversitySource: College Scorecard
- First-generation students
- 15%parents didn't go beyond high schoolSource: College Scorecard
Similar schools
Similar, and easier to get into
- Worcester Polytechnic Institute Worcester, MA — admits 60%
- Bentley University Waltham, MA — admits 45%
- Berklee College of Music Boston, MA — admits 44%
- Villanova University Villanova, PA — admits 27%
Also worth a look
- Boston College Chestnut Hill, MA — admits 16%
- College of the Holy Cross Worcester, MA — admits 18%
- Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA — admits 12%
- Tulane University of Louisiana New Orleans, LA — admits 14%
- Boston University Boston, MA — admits 11%
- Georgetown University Washington, DC — admits 13%
Where these numbers come from
Every number on this page comes from the U.S. Department of Education's College Scorecard page for Tufts University, which draws on what the school reports to the federal government and on federal student aid and tax records. We last pulled the data on November 4, 2026. Different measures cover different years; here's how each one works.
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