You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Tufts University. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Scientific Computing Schools in the New England Region. Located in Medford, Massachusetts, this fairly large private not-for-profit school handed out 21 degrees to qualified ’s scientific computing students in 2020-2021.
Tufts not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Computational Science Schools in the New England Region” list. The estimated yearly cost for Tufts University is $37,494 for New England Region Scientific Computing students.
Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 92%. The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.1%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.