• Welcome to GIS@Tufts!

  • On the Trail of Boston’s Black History: Inspired by a beloved professor, an interactive map catalogs African-American historical sites at Tufts and Greater Boston

  • See the winners of Tufts 2017 GIS Poster Expo! Photo by Kyle Monahan

Welcome to GIS at Tufts, a university-wide resource that provides information about GIS technology resources across the four Tufts campuses. The Data Labs, which are full-service computing labs dedicated to geospatial technology, statistics, and data science, maintain this site and serve as the central hub for GIS activities and services at Tufts. We offer a wide range of services to the Tufts community and are our labs are equipped with specialized hardware and software. The Data Labs are staffed with Student Lab Assistants and are open for walk-in assistance and resources, group collaboration, workshops and classes, along with more advanced GIS and statistical consultations.

Tufts new GIS certficates in Geographic Information Science and Spatial Data Analytics.

Data Lab Calendar

This calendar shows the Medford Data Lab Classroom Schedule, along with the Medford Data Lab Assistant’s Schedule and the Boston Data Lab Assistants schedule. You can toggle between or choose to only show a specific calendar in the upper right hand corner of the calendar.


This service is provided through a collaboration between Tufts Technology Services (TTS), Tisch Library, Hirsh Health Sciences Library, and Ginn Library.

GIS Data

There are numerous ways of locating GIS Data:

Online Resources
Tufts Networked Resources
CD-ROM/DVD Resources

GIS in Action

Come see the variety of ways people are using GIS on the Tufts campus:

Tufts GIS Poster Expo
GIS Examples by Research Area
What is GIS?
GIS Jobs