Graduation

Fall Deadline: September 19, 2025

Spring & Summer Deadline January 30, 2026

• Log in to SIS (go.tufts.edu/sis) and go to the top navigation bar and click the tab, Academics. Use the drop-down and select the option, Apply for Graduation. This will bring you to the Submit an Application for Graduation webpage and you will see your degree program listed and to the right click the breadcrumb titled, Appy for Graduation which will bring you to the Select Graduation Term webpage.
• Use the drop-down filter to select the term you expect to complete. Once you select the term click Continue and then click, Submit. If you are a dual-degree student, you need to apply to graduate for the Friedman School, as well as your other Tufts School.
   

Fall Deadline: September 19, 2025

Spring & Summer Deadline January 30, 2026

• Log in to SIS (go.tufts.edu/sis) and click "About Me" on the landing page and click the little pencil icon next to your name in order to enter your Diploma Name. You will be brought to your "list of names" in SIS and should see visible your Primary and Preferred Names.
• Click the Add a New Name breadcrumb and on the Add a New Name page that will open select from the Name Type drop-down, "Diploma" and then enter how you would like your name published on your diploma and click Save. Note: If you enter a middle initial please be sure to include a period next to your middle initial so it is printed correctly on your Diploma. If you don't want your middle initial or middle name included, leave the middle name field blank.
• IMPORTANT: If you don't enter a name specifically saved as a Diploma Name type in SIS then your name will be listed as blank when the list of Diploma Names is sent to the publisher to print our diplomas.

Fall Deadline: September 19, 2025

Spring & Summer Deadline January 30, 2026

• Log in to SIS (go.tufts.edu/sis) and click "About Me" on the landing page and click the little pencil icon next to your address in order to enter your Diploma Address. You will be brought to your "Addresses" in SIS and should see visible your Home, Current, Billing, etc. addresses. Click the "Add a New Address" button. 

• Enter the address where your Diploma can be sent via FedEx and click Ok and follow the prompts. If the address is outside of the United States, click "Change Country" and select the country and then enter your address information. Also, you may not enter a P.O. Box with your address since FedEx will not deliver to a P.O. Box. Your Diploma will only be mailed if you do not attend May Commencement.

   

Fall Deadline: November 14, 2025

Spring & Summer Deadline March 6, 2026

• Click here to download your Friedman School Degree Requirements Worksheet for the class year that you started your Friedman School degree program. Fill in the worksheet and include the semester you took the course listed and the final grade you received for the course and "E" for an approved Exemption from a course or requirement. If you are currently enrolled in the course, enter "IP" (In Progress) in the grade field.
• Obtain approval of the "Intent to Graduate" section on the Worksheet from both your Academic Advisor and Division Chair/Program Director (handwritten signature or e-signature, or email approval are all accepted) and submit your completed Degree Requirement Worksheet to Alexis.Smith@tufts.edu. 

Fall Deadline: November 14, 2025

Spring & Summer Deadline March 6, 2026

If you are a BMN, MAHA, MNSP, MS/DI, MS/MPH, or NEDS student, please be sure to submit to Alexis.Smith@tufts.edu your CITI Coursework Requirements Report PDF that indicates the Expiration Date and Reported Score (not the cover page) so this fulfilled degree requirement may be added to your academic record in SIS and the documentation can be filed in your student file folder. If you are an AFE, FANPP, and NICBC students that enrolled in NUTR 0207 with Dr. Sean Cash, your CITI Coursework Requirements Report PDF is already on file. However, if you were exempted from NUTR 0207, you must fulfill the CITI degree requirement.

• All BMN, MNSP, MS/DI, and NEDS students must complete the Biomedical Research Group CITI modules.
• All AFE, FANPP, & NICBC, students must complete the Social-Behavioral Educational Researchers Group CITI modules.
• For detailed instructions and any questions, click here to review or contact the Tufts University Institutional Review Board (IRB) - CITI Instructions.

The Academic Dean will distribute the required Exit Survey via email toward the end of the semester to expected candidates for graduation; please complete upon receipt.

Thesis Defense Deadlines:

• Fall 2025 Graduates must defend by January 2, 2026
• Spring 2026 Graduates must defend by April 24, 2026
• Summer 2026 Graduates must defend by August 7, 2026
• Note: If defense requires minor or major edits, these edits must be completed and the step 10 form submitted two weeks prior to the degree conferral date. If this date falls on a weekend, the due date s the Friday before that weekend.

Graduation Checklist for Ph.D. Students

All graduating students are invited to share their Directed Study Courses, Self-Designed Specialization Topics, and Cross-Registered Courses (and comments) through the online Qualtrics forms below—leave a little bit of your legacy behind for Friedman School students following in your footsteps as they navigate toward graduation too!

1. Cross-Registered Courses at Tufts, HSPH, Boston College, Boston University, and Brandeis
2. AFE, BMN, FPAN/FANPP Self-Designed Specialization Topics and Associated Courses
3. Directed Study Courses

• Forward your @tufts.edu address: After you graduate/complete your program, you are still active in the Tufts White Pages for 90 days. After the 90-day period is up, you will receive reminders via email for 4 weeks to set up mail forwarding. As long as you have set up forwarding for your @tufts.edu before your account expires, you will be able to keep that address; basically as an email "alias”. You will not be able to use that address for outgoing email as there isn't a mailbox attached to it. This also means if there are any saved emails in your Tufts email inboxes (that you want to keep), they need to be forwarded to a personal address or saved in some other way.  Visit tuftstools.tufts.edu.
• Box, Canvas: Once the account has switched to Alumni status, you will be unable to log into anything on the Tufts network. However, you will still be able to log in to SIS (as long as you remember your username and password) to download an Unofficial Transcript or request an Official Transcript. Before the account switches, you will need to download all the files they want to keep from each of the services, such as Trunk, Canvas, and Box.

1. Canvas: https://community.canvaslms.com/docs/DOC-10606, which is how to download all of one’s course submissions. In order to download course content files from Canvas, you must do them individually, as there is not a bulk download function. Here is documentation on downloading a single file: https://community.canvaslms.com/docs/DOC-10545-421241997.
2. Box: This can be done with an application called "Box Sync" which will download their files to their desktops.
3. You also will not have access to any Tufts network share drives if you had permission to utilize any of them. Contact it@tufts.edu with questions.

Join the Online Tufts Community and take advantage of Alumni Resources.

Congratulations to our graduates of 2026!