Boston and New England

There is perhaps no better place to be a graduate student than the Boston area. Located in Medford, Massachusetts, the Tufts Graduate School of Arts and Sciences is just five miles outside of Boston, a city which offers a multitude of culinary, historical, recreational, ethnic, and cultural resources. The area is also home to more than 150,000 students in 50 colleges and universities.

Near the Tufts campus is Davis Square, with its own noted array of stores, clubs, and restaurants, as well as a subway stop for easy access to downtown Boston, Harvard Square, and other parts of Boston and Cambridge.

The links below share more information about Boston and the surrounding area:

Boston USA

Massachusetts Office of Travel and Tourism

Boston.com

Tufts chemistry professor and department chair Krishna Kumar was named one of the world's 100 Top Young Innovators by <em>Technology Review</em> for his cutting-edge research on proteins that may have many medical uses.

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The Graduate Student Council (GSC) was established in the late 1980s and provides a forum for graduate students across all the disciplines. Each year, the GSC hosts a graduate student research symposium, a Giving Tree program (which donates toys to anonymous local children in the Medford/Somerville area) and a 5k Run/Walk, an event which has raised over $35,000 for a variety of charitable causes.

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The ratio of students to faculty rarely exceeds 12-1 in any Arts and Sciences graduate program, supporting the growth of significant mentoring and collegial relationships between faculty and students.

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The Department of Education is helping meet the need for good urban teachers through its Urban Teaching Training Collaborative (UTTC). The program places education graduate students in Boston-area schools were they work closely with a mentor teacher.

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