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This page contains data on six-year graduation rates of degree-seeking first-time, full-time undergraduate students. The six-year graduation time frame is the equivalent of 150 percent of the expected four years allotted to graduate, and is consistent with guidelines mandated in the federal Student Right to Know legislation.


Overall Graduation Rates1

The following table contains historical information on the six-year graduation rates of all first-time full-time undergraduate students who entered Tufts in the fall of the year shown.

Year entered Tufts 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017
6-year graduation rate 94% 94% 94% 94% 93%

Historical six-year graduation rates, as well as four-year graduation rates, can be found in the University Fact Book.

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Graduation rates by race/ethnicity2

The following table contains historical information on the six-year graduation rates of first-time full-time undergraduate students who entered Tufts in the fall of the year shown, by race/ethnicity. The definitions for the racial/ethnic categories shown below follow the Final Guidance on Maintaining, Collecting, and Reporting Racial and Ethnic Data to the U.S. Department of Education, 10/19/07, Federal Register, Volume 72, Number 202, pp. 59266-59279.

Year entered Tufts 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017
African American or Black 94% 91% 88% 94% 92%
Asian 94% 96% 96% 95% 96%
Hispanics of Any Race 92% 93% 91% 93% 91%
International 95% 96% 94% 96% 91%
White 94% 94% 94% 93% 94%

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Graduation rates by Gender3

The following table contains historical information on the male and female six-year graduation rates of first-time full-time undergraduate students who entered Tufts in the fall of the year shown.

Year entered Tufts 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017
Men 94% 93% 93% 93% 92%
Women 95% 95% 95% 95% 94%

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Graduation Rates among Federal grant and loan recipients4

The following table contains historical information on the six-year graduation rates of all first-time full-time undergraduate students who entered Tufts in the fall of the year shown and who were (1) recipients of a Federal Pell Grant; (2) recipients of a subsidized Stafford Loan (but no Pell Grant); or (3) recipients of neither.

Year entered Tufts 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016
Recipients of a Federal Pell Grant 91% 95% 93% 95% 92%
Recipients of a subsidized Stafford Loan who did not receive a Pell Grant 91% 95% 94% 92% 95%
Students who did not receive either a Pell grant or a subsidized Stafford Loan* 93% 94% 94% 94% 94%

*Includes students who received other financial aid as well as those that did not receive financial aid.

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1. Source: IPEDS Graduation Rates Survey. See College Navigator for more information.
2. Source: IPEDS Graduation Rates Survey. See College Navigator for more information.
3. Source: IPEDS Graduation Rates Survey. See College Navigator for more information.
4. Source: Tufts Graduation Rates file