Having originally intended to attend college in Boston, before her big break on "Buffy" altered those plans, she announced in March 2014 at the Emerald City Comicon that she would be attending college later that year. On June 22, 2014, "The Boston Globe" reported that Dushku had left Los Angeles, moved back to Watertown near Boston, and was planning to attend college. As of 2016, she was a student at Suffolk University, studying sociology. In 2019, "Boston Magazine" reported that she was studying holistic psychology at Lesley University.