Be sure to review the admissions process overview and application requirements and policies in addition to the program-specific requirements below. For more information on our application deadlines: Application Deadlines. Separate applications, including fees, are required if you apply to more than one graduate program at Tufts University.
Please note: a maximum of two applications are allowed to be submitted for one admissions cycle, and must be degree programs in two separate departments.
Application Requirements
Portfolio: All applicants to the MFA and Post-Bacc programs are required to submit a portfolio consisting of 10-20 images of recent work and/or up to 10 minutes of time-based work via the application platform.
- Images (up to 10MB each)
- Video (up to 500MB each)
- Audio (up to 60 MB each)
- PDFs (up to 20MB each)
- 3D models
- External media from YouTube, Vimeo, and SoundCloud
Personal Statement should not exceed (3) pages, and should address the following questions:Tell us about your most recent/current art work.
What would you identify as important artistic and intellectual influences on your art work? In addition to artists, this might also include writers, scientists, theorists, and other cultural producers.
In what ways do you hope to expand and further your art practice at the SMFA at Tufts?
If interested in Museum Studies concentration: discuss the following in the Personal Statement: What experiences do you have with museums, and what do you hope to gain from the program?
Application Requirements
- Application Fee
- Resume/CV
- Personal Statement
- Official TOEFL/IELTS/Duolingo scores (if applicable)
- Transcripts
- Three letters of recommendation
- Writing sample
- Reading knowledge of a foreign language required
Writing sample should be a recent sample of your best piece of writing.
Biology (Open-Choice MS, PhD)
Application Requirements
- Application Fee
- Resume/CV
- Personal Statement
- Official TOEFL/IELTS/Duolingo scores (if applicable)
- Transcripts
- Three letters of recommendation
- Chemistry/Biotechnology
- Chemical Physics
Application Requirements
- Application Fee
- Resume/CV
- Personal Statement
- Official TOEFL/IELTS/Duolingo scores (if applicable)
- Transcripts
- Three letters of recommendation
TOEFL score of 100 (or equivalent in IELTS/Duolingo) required, if submitting English language proficiency scores.
Your statement is an opportunity for us to learn about you as a scientist and as a person. It may be helpful for you to address some of the following questions:
- Please describe your long-term goals and how a graduate degree in chemistry will help you achieve them.
- If you have participated in a research project (including course-based research) describe how your personal, intellectual, and creative contributions altered the course of the project.
- What research are you interested in pursuing in graduate school? How do the research programs of specific faculty in our program align with your interests?
- Any circumstances that affected your academic performance
- How have you built on your strengths and worked to improve areas of weakness? How have you responded to challenges and critical feedback you have received?
- Please describe how you built, contributed to, and enriched the communities to which you belong.
Please use a narrative approach, an 11-point font, and do not exceed 3 pages.
Application Requirements
- Application Fee
- Resume/CV
- Personal Statement
- Official TOEFL/IELTS/Duolingo scores (if applicable)
- Transcripts
- Three letters of recommendation
- Supplemental Essay
Supplemental Essay for MA applicants:
The Eliot-Pearson Department of Child Study and Human Development’s mission is to
Enhance lives of children & families in diverse communities and contexts of the 21st century
Use collaborative, multidisciplinary approaches
Conduct research that informs practice and utilize practice that informs theory and research
Promote civic engagement
Please write about the first theme and at least one other in 500 words or less. Address the following questions.
How do each of these mission themes resonate with your interests in the program and in your career?
How do your prior experiences (or lack of) lead you to connect with each of these themes?
How do you envision carrying out these themes/learning to carry out these themes during your time in our MA program?
What challenges do you see in your ability to implement each of these themes?
Supplemental Essay for PhD applicants:
A supplemental essay (max 500 words) is required for all PhD applicants:
Application Requirements
- Application Fee
- Resume/CV
- Personal Statement
- Official TOEFL/IELTS/Duolingo scores (if applicable)
- Transcripts
- Three letters of recommendation
- Writing sample
Writing sample: Please provide a sample of your academic writing of no more than 20 pages. The sample can be about any topic in Classical Studies, broadly conceived to encompass the classical tradition and related fields. The sample must demonstrate your ability to ask productive questions, work with both primary and secondary sources, and your ability to situate your work within the broader landscape of scholarship on a question.
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Application Requirements
- Application Fee
- Resume/CV
- Personal Statement
- GRE or GMAT scores
- Official TOEFL/IELTS/Duolingo scores (if applicable)
- Transcripts
- Three letters of recommendation
Please include courses and grades for the prerequisites of Calculus II, Statistics, and Computer Programming on the provided spaced in the application.
____________________________________________________________________Application Requirements
- Application Fee
- Resume/CV
- Personal Statement
- Official TOEFL/IELTS/Duolingo scores (if applicable)
- Transcripts
- Three letters of recommendation
Personal Statement: Please give your reasons for deciding to do graduate work in Diversity & Inclusion Leadership Studies. We are particularly concerned that you cover these points:- What previous experiences and commitments have brought you to the decision to apply for graduate training?
- What are you chief objectives in applying now, and how will the DEIJ program help you in pursuit of your objectives and vocation?
- Who are 2-3 Tufts University faculty whose research and/or practice intersects with your interests within diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice https://facultyprofiles.tufts.edu/?
Application Requirements
- Application Fee
- Resume/CV
- Personal Statement
- GRE scores required
- Official TOEFL/IELTS/Duolingo scores (if applicable)
- Transcripts
- Three letters of recommendation
Economics and Public Policy (PhD)
Joint degree with The Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy
Application Requirements
- Application Fee
- Resume/CV
- Personal Statement
- Official TOEFL/IELTS/Duolingo scores (if applicable)
- Transcripts
- Three letters of recommendation
- Writing Sample
Writing sample should be a recent sample of your best piece of writing.
Current Tufts Economics and Fletcher Master's students should contact Graduate Admissions for Ph.D. requirements.
Application Requirements for all programs
- Application Fee
- Resume/CV
- Personal Statement
- Official TOEFL/IELTS/Duolingo scores (if applicable)
- Transcripts
- Three letters of recommendation
Art Education (MAT)
Additional Requirements for Art Education (MAT)
- Portfolio
- Interview required
Personal Statement: Elaborating on your reasons for wishing to pursue graduate study at Tufts and your vision of becoming an art teacher. Your personal statement should be a maximum of 2,500 words, single space. Describe experiences, including inspiring individuals or events that motivated you to take this path.
Cognitive Science (PhD)
No additional requirements
Educational Studies (MA)
No additional requirements
Middle & High School (MAT)
Additional Requirements for Middle & High School (MAT)
- Either GRE scores or Communication and Literacy Skills MTELS (optional)
- Two of the three letters of recommendation should be from academic professionals representing the subject area in which the applicant is seeking licensure
- Personal statement:Elaborating on your reasons for wishing to pursue graduate study at Tufts. Your personal statement should be a maximum of 2,500 words, single spaced. Describe experiences, including inspiring individuals or events that motivated you to take this path.
- A writing sample in the language of specialization is required for applicants seeking licensure in a foreign language
- Candidates applying to the Urban Teacher Training Collaborative (UTTC) track are required to submit a supplemental essay
- Interview required
Museum Education (MA)
No additional requirementsPhysics Education (PhD)
Additional Requirements for Physics Education (PhD)
- Writing sample: Where the personal statement is about you, this should be a sample of your scholarly writing about a topic in STEM Education, citing references from relevant literature. Feel free to send a paper you've already written, for a course or for publication, or write something new focused on problems you are interested to study.
School Psychology (MA/EdS)
Additional Requirements for School Psychology (MA/EdS)
- Supplemental essay
- Interview or shadow a school psychologist to become informed about the roles and responsibilities in the field
- Interview required
Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) Education (MS, PhD)
Additional Requirements for STEM Education (MS, PhD)
- GRE scores optional
- Personal statement: Tell us about what motivates you to study STEM Education at Tufts. Describe experiences, research questions or dilemmas that have motivated you to pursue further study in STEM Education. Your personal statement should be between 1500-2500 words.
- Writing sample: Where the personal statement is about you, this should be a sample of your scholarly writing about a topic in STEM Education, citing references from relevant literature. Feel free to send a paper you've already written, for a course or for publication, or write something new focused on problems you are interested to study.
Application Requirements
- Application Fee
- Resume/CV
- Personal Statement
- Official TOEFL/IELTS/Duolingo scores (if applicable)
- Transcripts
- Three letters of recommendation
- Writing sample
Writing sample should be a recent sample of your best piece of writing.
Application Requirements
- Application Fee
- Resume/CV
- Personal Statement
- GRE scores required
- Official TOEFL/IELTS/Duolingo scores (if applicable)
- Transcripts
- Three letters of recommendation
Application Requirements
- Application Fee
- Resume/CV
- Personal Statement
- Official TOEFL/IELTS/Duolingo scores (if applicable)
- Transcripts
- Three letters of recommendation
Global History PhD program not currently accepting applications.
Application Requirements
- Application Fee
- Resume/CV
- Personal Statement
- Official TOEFL/IELTS/Duolingo scores (if applicable)
- Transcripts
- Three letters of recommendation
- Writing sample
Writing sample should be a recent sample of your best piece of writing.
Requirements for PhD applicants:
Proof of proficiency in one foreign language
Submit a statement of intent, detailing the planned dissertation field
Contact Professors Ayesha Jalal and Kris Manjapra for the Modern South Asia program
Application Requirements
- Application Fee
- Resume/CV
- Personal Statement
- Official TOEFL/IELTS/Duolingo scores (if applicable)
- Transcripts
- Three letters of recommendation
- Program proposal
Application Requirements
- Application Fee
- Resume/CV
- Personal Statement
- Official TOEFL/IELTS/Duolingo scores (if applicable)
- Transcripts
- Three letters of recommendation
GRE (General and Subject) test scores are neither required nor considered.
Personal Statement: This statement should include your reasons for wanting to pursue graduate study at Tufts and within the Department of Mathematics. Discuss what makes mathematics exciting to you. In addition, please include a description of a math problem or topic that challenged you early in your undergraduate experience. Discuss how you, perhaps with the help of others, overcame those difficulties to understand the problem better and how you presently understand it. Do not be afraid to choose something from a "basic" class like calculus. Your application materials already speak to your achievements; here instead we are interested in hearing about how you have developed your interest in mathematics. Please limit your statement to 750 words or fewer.
Application Requirements
- Application Fee
- Resume/CV
- Personal Statement
- Official TOEFL/IELTS/Duolingo scores (if applicable)
- Transcripts
- Three letters of recommendation
- Writing sample
- Portfolio (if applicable)
Portfolio required for applicants to the Composition concentration, and encouraged for applicants to the Conducting concentration.
Composition: portfolio of representative scores and recordings, if available, is required with your application
Conducting: A 10-15 minute video of a performance excerpt is encouraged
Occupational Therapy
Entry-Level Doctor of Occupational Therapy (OTD)
Entry-Level OTD applicants must apply via OTCAS.
Post-Professional Doctor of Occupational Therapy (OTD)
Post-Professional Occupational Therapy (MS)
Application Requirements
- Application Fee
- Resume/CV
- Personal Statement
- GRE scores (if applicable)
- Official TOEFL/IELTS/Duolingo scores (if applicable)
- Transcripts
- Three letters of recommendation
- Writing sample (Entry-Level OTD and Post-Professional MS only)
- Certificate of Hepatitis B Vaccination required upon acceptance/enrollment
- See department website for pre-requisite requirements.
GRE scores not required for applicants who will have received a degree from an accredited U.S. institution by time of enrollment. GRE scores required for all other applicants who received a degree from an institution outside of the U.S.
Personal Statement:
EL-OTD program applicants: Please use the OTCAS prompt.
Post-Professional MS program applicants: Please give your reasons for deciding to do graduate work in the field you have chosen. We are particularly concerned that you cover these points (3 pages double spaced maximum):
What previous experiences and commitments have brought you to consider applying for graduate training?
What are your chief objectives in applying now?
How do you think this Tufts program will help you in the pursuit of your objectives and vocation?
Post-Professional OTD program applicants: Guidelines for personal statement (limit 3 pages double-spaced):
What are your plans for graduate study as related to your future career as a leader in occupational therapy? Please address your specialty focus.
The Leadership Project is an important part of the OTD program (see description for 286 Leadership Project Planning). Please indicate your current ideas about your project.
In what ways do your academic background and recent professional experience point to your potential for success as a doctoral student and as a leader in occupational therapy? Please give specific examples of relevant coursework and/or experience.
Is there any further information we should consider in assessing your candidacy?
TOEFL score of 100 iBT (or equivalent IELTS/Duolingo score) required, if submitting English language proficiency scores.
Three Letters of Recommendation: Preference is to include at least one academic reference. Note: Only 2 letters of recommendation are required for current Tufts University undergraduate and certificate students.
Writing Sample: The Tufts University Department of Occupational Therapy values values the personal experiences and perspectives of our student body. Please reflect on and share how your life experiences would enrich your educational experience within the Tufts community. (2 pages max, double-spaced).
Application Requirements
- Application Fee
- Resume/CV
- Personal Statement
- Official TOEFL/IELTS/Duolingo scores (if applicable)
- Transcripts
- Three letters of recommendation
- Writing sample
Writing sample should be a recent sample of your best piece of writing.
Application Requirements
- Application Fee
- Resume/CV
- Personal Statement
- Official TOEFL/IELTS/Duolingo scores (if applicable)
- Transcripts
- Three letters of recommendation
GRE scores are not required, will not be accepted, and will not be considered in the evaluation of graduate applications.
Application Requirements
- Application Fee
- Resume/CV
- GRE General and Subject Test scores are optional
- Personal Statement
- Official TOEFL/IELTS/Duolingo scores (if applicable)
- Transcripts
- Three letters of recommendation
- Writing sample (optional)
- Additional materials (optional)
Personal Statement: This statement should describe your previous experience with the type of research you are interested in, how that experience will facilitate your graduate education, and why you are choosing to pursue graduate education in our department. Your goal should be to demonstrate how well you will fit in the Tufts Psychology program and in a specific laboratory or laboratories. If you are applying for the Cognitive Science program, please also describe why you are interested in that interdisciplinary program. For more information please see: https://as.tufts.edu/psychology/prospective-students/graduate-programs/writing-research-statement. Please limit your statement to 2,000 words.
Optional writing sample: You have the option to provide an additional indication of your writing and research experience. This could include a scientific publication, experimental write-up, honors thesis, or other scientific writing.
Optional additional materials: You also have the option of submitting additional supporting material that further demonstrates fit with the lab or indicated supervisor, and that were not discussed in the personal statement (e.g., online courses and/or boot-camps, poster presentations, relevant professional development opportunities, certifications in programming languages, videos of an experiment currently in progress, video of scientific presentation, relevant blog posts, relevant publications).
Application Requirements
- Application Fee
- Resume/CV
- Personal Statement
- Official TOEFL/IELTS/Duolingo scores (if applicable)
- Transcripts
- Three letters of recommendation
At least seven (7) years of significant, relevant professional work experience required.
Application Requirements
- Application Fee
- Resume/CV
- Personal Statement
- Official TOEFL/IELTS/Duolingo scores (if applicable)
- Transcripts
- Three letters of recommendation
Application Requirements
- Application Fee
- Resume/CV
- Personal Statement
- Official TOEFL/IELTS/Duolingo scores (if applicable)
- Transcripts
- Three letters of recommendation
- Writing sample
- Portfolio documenting creative work (optional)
- A writing sample that reflects a scholarly discussion of a topic in or related to performance (ex. part of a master's thesis, a term paper, or a research article).
TOEFL score of 100 iBT (or equivalent IELTS/Duolingo score) required, if submitting English language proficiency scores
Personal Statement: Address questions such as "Why this particular program? What sort of questions has your research turned up so far? What sparks your interest in fields other than Drama and Theatre?" The statement should be no more than 1000 words.
Application Requirements
- Application Fee
- Resume/CV
- Personal Statement
- Official TOEFL/IELTS/Duolingo scores (if applicable)
- Transcripts
- Three letters of recommendation
Only open to current Tufts undergraduate students in their Junior or Senior year.
GSAS Fifth-Year Master's Programs
Art Education (BFA/MAT)
Biology (BS/MS)
- Chemistry (BS/MS)
- Child Study and Human Development (BA/MA or BS/MA)
- Classics (BA/MA)
Data Analytics (BA/MS or BS/MS)
Economics (BS/MS)
Education: Middle & High School (BA/MAT or BS/MAT)
Environmental Policy & Planning (BA/MS or BS/MS)
Mathematics (BS/MS)
Museum Education (BA/MA) also open to Connecticut College undergraduates
Music (BA/MA)
Philosophy (BA/MA)
Urban & Environmental Policy & Planning (BS/MA or BA/MA) must apply during Junior year
Application Requirements
- Resume/CV
- Personal Statement
- Transcripts
- Two letters of recommendation
- Check department website for additional requirements
Open to Tufts graduates who completed their degrees within the past three years. Eligibility requirements vary by program.
Deadlines: See program deadlines above.
Application Requirements: See program requirements, with the below exceptions:
GRE General test scores not required
Two letters of recommendation required, one of which must be from undergraduate advisor
Programs
Biology (MS): Open to applicants within two years of graduating from Tufts.
Child Study & Human Development (MA): Open to applicants within two years of graduating from Tufts. Eligible students must have a 3.25 GPA their senior year.
Diversity & Inclusion Leadership (MA): Open to applicants within two years of graduating from Tufts. Qualified applicants must have strong recommendations and a strong commitment to diversity research and scholarship.
Economics (MS): Open to applicants within two years of graduating from Tufts. Qualified applicants must have strong recommendations and a strong commitment to academic research and scholarship.
Education (MAT, MS, MA): Open to applicants within two years of graduating from Tufts.
History (MA): Open to applicants within two years of graduating from Tufts. Eligible students must have a 3.25 GPA or better. Applicants from other majors considered on a case-by-case basis.
Mathematics (MS): Open to applicants within two years of graduating from Tufts. Eligible students must have a 3.25 GPA or better.
Completion of two of the following: Math 135, Math 136, Math 145, Math 146.
Completion of two of the following sequences: Math 135-136, Math 145-146, Math 151-152, Math 161-162.
Museum Education (MA):Open to applicants within two years of graduating from Tufts.
Music (MA): Open to applicants within two years of graduating from Tufts. Eligible students must have a 3.25 GPA or better in their major.
Urban & Environmental Policy & Planning (MA): Open to applicants within two years of graduating from Tufts. Qualified applicants must have strong recommendations, a strong commitment to community and public engagement, and relevant work experience either during or subsequent to college.
A Bachelor's degree is required to apply to all certificate programs.
Deadline Exceptions
Programs
Advanced Professional Certification in School-Based Practice
- Assistive Technology
- Anti-Racist Curatorial Studies
Community Environmental Studies
Data Analytics
Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Justice Leadership
- GIScience
- Impact Investing
Management of Community Organizations
Mathematics Post-Baccalaureate
Museum Studies
Occupational Therapy (Areas of Specialization)
Program and Organizational Evaluation
Spatial Data Analytics
Studio Art Post-Baccalaureate
Application Requirements
- Application Fee
- Resume/CV
- Personal Statement (For Certificates, please check the website to see if there is a specific prompt)
- Official TOEFL/IELTS/Duolingo scores (if applicable)
- Transcripts
- One letters of recommendation
- Check department websites for any additional requirements
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