History
Founded as the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy in 1823 by fourteen Boston pharmacists, MCPHS is the oldest institution of higher education in Boston. It is also the second-oldest and largest College of Pharmacy in the United States, preceded only by the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy (Now University of the Sciences in Philadelphia), which was founded in 1821. In 1825, the college published the First American Pharmaceutical Library Catalogue, detailing the effects of many pharmaceuticals. In 1852, the college received a charter from the Great Court of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to grant its first formal degree.
In 1918, the College established the George Robert White Building in Boston’s Longwood Medical Area, across from Harvard Medical School to serve as its main campus. In 1979, The General Court of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts approved a change in the College's charter to allow degree granting authority in the allied health sciences, and the College officially changes its name to the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences.
The Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences has since grown to include a School of Pharmacy, School of Health Sciences and School of Arts and Sciences. In 2000, MCPHS added a campus in Worcester, Massachusetts and in 2002, a new campus was added in Manchester, New Hampshire. In 2002, The Forsyth School for Dental Hygienists was also acquired and incorporated into the college, housing the school's Dental Hygiene program.
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