Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Science is an undergraduate and graduate college that offers majors in areas such as dental hygiene, nursing, radiology, nuclear medicine, chemistry and pharmacy. The private co-ed college is located on beautiful Longwood Avenue, alongside world renound hospitals as well as Harvard Medical School. The college has three campuses: Boston, Worcester and Manchester, NH. The school enrolls about 3,200 students and employs about 300 faculty. Check out Povo's Guide To Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences. Areas of study: Undergraduate:

• Pharmacy
• Nursing
• Dental Hygiene
• Physician Assistant Studies
• Radiologic Studies
• Environmental Sciences
• Health Psychology
• Chemistry
• Pre-medical and health studies

Graduate:

• Drug Regulatory Affairs and Health Policy
• Drug Discovery and Development
• Pharmaceutical Sciences
• Medicinal Chemistry
• Pharmacology

Founded by the Sisters of Notre Dame de Mur in 1919, Emmanuel College is one of the six founding memebers of the Colleges of the Fenway. The school is located directly adjacent to Simmons College, Beth Israel Deacones Medical Center, and Havard Medical Research Facilities. It's location particularly advantageous, as Emmanuel is very close to both Fenway Park and a major hospital district.

Emmanuel College proper only houses eight buildings, four of them dormitories. The college benefits from being one of the few enclosed campuses in the entire city of Boston, giving the school the appearance of being very residential. Yet EC's small size has also forced the school to rent out floors at the Howard Johnson Hotel and the Longwood Inn to house the ever-expanding population of students. Merck Pharmaceutials also calls EC home, making Emmanuel the only campus in the United States to have a major pharmaceutical building actually on their campus. Sr. Janet Eisner, S.N.D allowed Merck to develop on Emmanuel's land under the stipulation that the corporation pour money into the the college's science programs and provide special internships exclusively for EC graduates and students.

Currently Emmanuel is experiencing a period of expansion as the college continues to improve upon itself. The completion of the prized Jean Yawkey Center heralded in this new era in 2002, winning numerous awards for its architecture and modern design. Now EC is in the process of erecting a new Academic Science Center to accommodate its burgeoning Biology and Chemistry department which is expected to be completed in 2009.

Until 2001, Emmanuel College was exclusively female when the school decided to admit men due to declining enrollment rates and financial crisis. Luckily, this change in policy allowed Emmanuel to grow at an amazing rate, and the school now boasts a total enrollment of 2,400 undergraduates. Check out Povo's Guide to Emmanuel College.

Harvard Medical School, one of this country's oldest medical schools(third to be exact), was established in 1782. Huge buildings line the prestigous Longwood Avenue in the Mission Hill neighborhood of Boston. The school houses two doctoral graduate programs, one being the M.D. degree which is emphasized by elements of research, education and clinical care. Harvard Medical also offers a Ph.D program which emphasizes clinical research. When Harvard Medical was first started, it was composed of founder Dr. John Warren, and only had three faculty members. Harvard Medical School's first home was across the river in Cambridge(at the location of present Harvard University), and was then moved to a Boston location before moving to the Longwood Medical Campus location. While Harvard Medical School is affiliated with many metropolitan hospitals, Massachusetts General Hospital, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Brigham and Women's Hospital ae the three largest and longest standing hospitals that Harvard has been affiliated with.