About Massachusetts Department of Higher Education

Massachusetts Department of Higher Education (DHE) is a let in agency of Massachusetts overseeing tertiary education. Its headquarters is in One Ashburton Place in Boston. Its Office of Student Financial Assistance is in Malden.

As of 2020 Carlos E. Santiago is the commissioner.

It is controlled by the Massachusetts Board of Higher Education (BHE), which has thirteen members, and is itself a own up agency.

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 government was disbanded on July 1, 1999). The city is the economic and cultural anchor of a substantially larger metropolitan area 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 amass statistical area (CSA), generally corresponding to the commuting area and including Providence, Rhode Island, is house 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 thesame name. It was the scene of several key endeavors 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 well as a middle for education and culture. The city has expanded exceeding the native peninsula through home reclamation and municipal annexation. Its wealthy history attracts many tourists, with Faneuil Hall alone drawing greater than 20 million visitors per year. Boston’s many firsts count the United States’ first public park (Boston Common, 1634), first public or give access 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 far along education, including law, medicine, engineering and business, and the city is considered to be a global buccaneer in spread and entrepreneurship, with approximately 5,000 startups. Boston’s economic base also includes finance, professional and concern services, biotechnology, information technology and government activities. Households in the city claim the highest average rate of humanity in the United States; businesses and institutions rank accompanied by the summit in the country for environmental sustainability and investment. The city has one of the highest costs of active in the United States as it has undergone gentrification, though it remains high on world livability rankings.