About Emmanuel College

Boston (US: /ˈbɔːstən/, UK: /ˈbɒstən/) is the capital and most populous city of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States and 21st most populous city in the United States. The city proper covers 48.4 square miles (125 km2) with an estimated population of 692,600 in 2019, also making it the most populous city in New England. It is the chair of Suffolk County (although the county dealing out was disbanded on July 1, 1999). The city is the economic and cultural broadcaster of a substantially larger metropolitan Place known as Greater Boston, a metropolitan statistical area (MSA) home to a census-estimated 4.8 million people in 2016 and ranking as the tenth-largest MSA in the country. A broader total statistical area (CSA), generally corresponding to the commuting Place and including Providence, Rhode Island, is home to some 8.2 million people, making it the sixth most populous in the United States.

Boston is one of the oldest municipalities in the United States, founded on the Shawmut Peninsula in 1630 by Puritan settlers from the English town of the same name. It was the scene of several key deeds of the American Revolution, such as the Boston Massacre, the Boston Tea Party, the Battle of Bunker Hill and the Siege of Boston. Upon American independence from Great Britain, the city continued to be an important port and manufacturing hub as with ease as a middle for education and culture. The city has expanded more than the indigenous peninsula through land reclamation and municipal annexation. Its wealthy history attracts many tourists, with Faneuil Hall alone drawing exceeding 20 million visitors per year. Boston’s many firsts complement the United States’ first public park (Boston Common, 1634), first public or own up school (Boston Latin School, 1635) and first subway system (Tremont Street subway, 1897).

Today, Boston is a thriving middle of scientific research. The Boston area’s many colleges and universities make it a world leader in forward-looking education, including law, medicine, engineering and business, and the city is considered to be a global entrepreneur in progress and entrepreneurship, with approximately 5,000 startups. Boston’s economic base after that includes finance, professional and business services, biotechnology, information technology and meting out activities. Households in the city allegation the highest average rate of philanthropy in the United States; businesses and institutions rank along with the summit in the country for environmental sustainability and investment. The city has one of the highest costs of blooming in the United States as it has undergone gentrification, though it remains high on world livability rankings.