2025 Senior Survey
For more than 30 years, Tufts has administered a survey to students at the time of graduation. Over 95% of students usually respond. The university uses the information to continuously strengthen the undergraduate experience and to find out what plans students have for the future.
In spring of 2025, 96.1% of Tufts graduating seniors responded to the senior survey. Below are some results from the 2025 senior survey.
Overall Satisfaction
On the 2025 senior survey, students were asked “Overall, how satisfied are you with your undergraduate education?” 86% reported that they were very or generally satisfied.
| % | |
|---|---|
| Very satisfied | 25.9% |
| Generally satisfied | 59.8% |
| Ambivalent | 10.4% |
| Generally dissatisfied | 2.9% |
| Very dissatisfied | 0.9% |
Skills & Abilities
Members of the Class of 2025 reported that a Tufts education helped enhance a wide range of skills and abilities that will be important long after they have left Tufts.
To what extent has your experience at Tufts contributed to your knowledge, skills, and personal development in the following areas?
| Very much |
Quite a bit |
Some | Very little or none |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Communicating well orally | 30.8% | 40.4% | 24.5% | 4.3% |
| Creating original ideas and solutions | 29.2% | 44.0% | 23.4% | 3.4% |
| Developing global awareness | 29.7% | 38.5% | 26.0% | 5.9% |
| Functioning effectively as a member of a team | 36.6% | 39.4% | 20.2% | 3.7% |
| Judging the merits of arguments based on their sources, methods and reasoning | 27.1% | 45.1% | 23.7% | 4.1% |
| Leadership skills | 36.4% | 35.8% | 22.1% | 5.7% |
| Identifying moral and ethical issues | 29.5% | 41.2% | 23.6% | 5.6% |
| Relating well to people of different races, nations, and religions | 29.6% | 38.5% | 26.1% | 5.8% |
| Thinking critically | 41.8% | 41.6% | 14.9% | 1.7% |
| Acquiring broad knowledge across a number of fields | 29.6% | 42.1% | 24.7% | 3.6% |
| Understanding the complexity of social problems | 33.0% | 40.6% | 22.2% | 4.2% |
| Writing clearly and effectively | 28.5% | 39.8% | 26.3% | 5.4% |
Plans
Students were asked what they expected to be doing in the fall following graduation. At the point of taking the survey, 42% of job-seeking students had accepted a position, 7% were considering one or more offers, and 1% will be self-employed. Of 26% of respondents who indicated they plan to attend graduate or professional school in the fall, 86% had received one or more acceptances to graduate or professional school.
Please note, the Career Center maintains the most up-to-date list of recent graduates’ destinations.
Tell us what you expect to be doing THIS FALL. You need not be certain. Just tell us your preferred plan, marking all that apply.
| % | |
|---|---|
| Working for pay full-time (including self-employment) | 65.5% |
| Attending graduate or professional school full-time | 24.7% |
| Working for pay part-time | 15.4% |
| Traveling or just taking time for yourself | 14.6% |
| Undecided | 14.5% |
| Starting your own company or organization | 3.3% |
| Family or other caregiving | 3.2% |
| Enrolled in some other educational program (such as completing your current degree or a post-baccalaureate program) | 2.7% |
| Attending graduate or professional school part-time | 1.8% |