MGH Institute of Health Professions

Private · MA

School data & stats

TypePrivate

LocationMA · Northeast

SettingUrban

Undergrads164

Student:faculty10:1

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Community

Racial diversity36.6%

Gender diversity90.8%

International0%

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Overview

The MGH Institute of Health Professions, on Boston's Charlestown Navy Yard waterfront, is a graduate-focused health-sciences school founded by Massachusetts General Hospital. It is overwhelmingly a graduate institution — nursing, physical and occupational therapy, speech-language pathology, and genetic counseling dominate — with only a small undergraduate footprint centered on accelerated nursing completion for students who already hold a prior bachelor's degree.

Academics

Programs are built tightly around clinical training, with direct pipelines into Massachusetts General Hospital and the broader Mass General Brigham hospital system for fieldwork and clinical placements. Class sizes in the clinical programs tend to be small and cohort-based, with faculty who are often practicing clinicians themselves.

Campus & student life

The Navy Yard campus sits directly on Boston Harbor, apart from a traditional undergraduate quad; because most students are graduate students already working toward a specific clinical license, the atmosphere is closer to a professional school than a typical undergraduate college.

Getting in

Entry into the health-profession programs is competitive and prerequisite-driven — prior coursework in the sciences, and often related clinical or volunteer experience, matters more than a conventional college application narrative. The limited undergraduate track, accelerated nursing, is aimed specifically at career-changers who already hold a bachelor's degree in another field.

After graduation

Graduates move heavily into the Mass General Brigham hospital system and other Boston-area health systems, backed by the MGH name and its direct hospital lineage; the institute has a strong reputation for clinical placement and licensure outcomes in its core fields.

Worth knowing

Students exploring this option should know it is not a conventional four-year college — most students arrive already holding a bachelor's degree and are pursuing a graduate clinical credential, with undergraduate options limited almost entirely to accelerated, second-degree nursing.

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Admissions

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Deadlines (2026–27 cycle)

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