Tufts University

Medford, Massachusetts

Private not-for-profit·Four or more years·Doctor's degree - research/scholarship and professional practice·GPA 4.11

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Tufts University is a private research university in Medford and Somerville, Massachusetts, United States, with additional facilities in Boston and Grafton, as well as Talloires, France. It was founded in 1852 as Tufts College by Christian universalists who sought to provide a nonsectarian institution of higher learning. For much of the 20th century, Jackson College for Women was the coordinate college of Tufts.…

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Medford, Massachusetts, 02155-5555

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