Tarski supervised twenty-four Ph.D. dissertations including (in chronological order) those of Andrzej Mostowski, Bjarni Jónsson, Julia Robinson, Robert Vaught, Solomon Feferman, Richard Montague, James Donald Monk, Haim Gaifman, Donald Pigozzi and Roger Maddux, as well as Chen Chung Chang and Jerome Keisler, authors of "Model Theory" (1973), a classic text in the field.
Njegovi študenti, od katerih so mnogi postali pomembni matematiki, so občutili veličastno energijo, s katero jih je motiviral in iz njih povlekel najboljše delo, vedno je tudi zahteval najvišja merila jasnosti in natančnosti.