The department awards a limited number of teaching and research assistantships each year for which all students may apply. Most often teaching assistantships are assigned to second-year students who have demonstrated proficiency in a particular subject matter. Health Fees Students are required to take health insurance through Tufts or prove enrollment in another system. Housing The cost of off-campus housing, mostly in apartments, varies greatly according to location and quality. Although the vacancy rate in Tufts' surrounding communities is quite low, students are able to find apartments or group housing arrangements close to the campus.
Campus housing is comparable in expense to off-campus alternatives.
The Tisch Library and the Music Library in Aidekman Arts Center provide library resources and service for Arts, Sciences and Engineering faculty, staff, and students. The biology, geology, chemistry, and physics reading rooms on campus house current issues of research-level periodicals in their respective disciplines. In addition, the Tisch Library has a growing collection of over 500 electronic databases and 1000 e-journals accessible to the Tufts community via the Internet. This new facility offers individual and group work space with outlets for laptops, and computer access to a variety of research databases. The library is a member of the Boston Library Consortium.