School of Arts and Sciences
Post-baccalaureate Premedical Program

Tuition & Financial Aid

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Cost

Tuition for the Post-Baccalaureate Premedical certificate is billed semi-annually and only during the first year of the program. Tuition for students entering the Post-Baccalaureate Premedical certificate during the 2024-2025 academic year is $44,080 (or $22,040 per semester). This covers the tuition of the entire program (up to 10 approved courses), and no bills are issued during a students’ second year of study. For more information on tuition and financial aid, visit the Graduate Admissions website.

Please visit the Student Financial Services website and their page on Cost of Attendance for Graduate School. 

What's Included?

The program fee covers a maximum of ten courses including the eight science courses, with their related laboratories, that most health professions graduate programs require. 

All these courses must be taken for letter grades. Almost all schools require laboratory participation for all of these science courses, except biochemistry. It is assumed, and usually required, that you take the lab concurrently with the lecture.

Most commonly, these eight courses* include: 

  • 2 semesters of Biology, with lab
  • 2 semesters of Chemistry, with lab
  • 2 semesters of Physics, with lab
  • 1 semester of Organic Chemistry, with lab
  • 1 semester of Biochemistry
  • A student who has completed a required lab science or two prior to matriculating at Tufts may opt to take other courses (up to the ten lab sciences covered by the program fee), in consultation with the program advisor. 
  • Advising, tutoring, workshops, speakers, and support from Health Professions Advising in the form of a committee letter are all included in the program tuition fee.

*To complete the Tufts Post-bacc Premed Program, students must complete a minimum of eight courses in the program.

Loans

For purposes of Federal financial aid eligibility, Post-bacc Premed students are considered enrolled in "preparatory coursework to enroll in a graduate program."

  • Dependent students may borrow a total of $7,500 (subsidized and/or unsubsidized) through the Federal Direct Loan Program.
  • Independent students are eligible to borrow a total of $12,500 through the Federal Direct Loan Program.

Post-bacc Premed students can only receive a Direct Loan for a two-semester period (one year) per Federal regulations. Students must be enrolled at least half-time (2 courses per semester minimum). Post-bacc students and applicants who wish to apply for a Direct Loan should complete and submit the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA). Once matriculating into the program, Post-bacc students work with the liaison to the program in the Financial Aid Office.