About MGH Institute of Health Professions

The MGH Institute of Health Professions (The MGH Institute) is a private academic world focused on the health sciences and located in Boston, Massachusetts. It was founded by Massachusetts General Hospital in 1977 and is accredited by the New England Commission of Higher Education.

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 seat of Suffolk County (although the county supervision was disbanded on July 1, 1999). The city is the economic and cultural presenter 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 cumulative statistical area (CSA), generally corresponding to the commuting Place 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 upon the Shawmut Peninsula in 1630 by Puritan settlers from the English town of the thesame name. It was the scene of several key activities 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 skillfully as a center for education and culture. The city has expanded higher than the original peninsula through estate reclamation and municipal annexation. Its wealthy history attracts many tourists, with Faneuil Hall alone drawing on culmination of 20 million visitors per year. Boston’s many firsts increase the United States’ first public park (Boston Common, 1634), first public or divulge school (Boston Latin School, 1635) and first subway system (Tremont Street subway, 1897).

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