Mass General Hospital Jobs, Salaries & Visa Sponsorship

Massachusetts General Hospital, usually called Mass General or MGH, is a teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School in Boston and a founding member of the Mass General Brigham health system.

Mass General Brigham reports that MGH has 1,045 inpatient beds, 3,660 physicians and 3.87 million outpatient visits, and calls it home to the largest hospital-based research enterprise in the US.

Mass General was named to the U.S. News & World Report 2026-2027 Best Hospitals Honor Roll, which lists 20 hospitals in alphabetical order. Its own page says it is ranked #1 for psychiatry and top 10 in six other specialties in 2026-27.

For staff trained abroad, visa work for MGH runs through the Mass General Brigham Office for Global Professionals and Scholars (GPS), which processes sponsorship requests for nonimmigrant staff, scholar and student visas including J-1, H-1B, TN, E-3 and O-1, and advises on green cards.

Mass General does not publish an international recruitment program for nurses, pharmacists, therapists or other clinical staff on the pages we reviewed, and each needs a Massachusetts license from the relevant board. Its residency programs are run by Mass General Brigham, and visa options are set program by program. The GPS office also handles scholar visas, which matters for research staff at the hospital.

Founded

1811 (chartered)

Run by

Mass General Brigham

Leadership

• Marcela G. del Carmen, MD, MPH, President, Massachusetts General Hospital; President, Massachusetts General Physicians Organization
• Suzanne Algeri, DNP, MS, RN, NE-BC, Interim Senior Vice President for Patient Care and Chief Nurse

Accreditations

• Magnet designation from the American Nurses Credentialing Center, first in Massachusetts; designated in 2003 and redesignated in 2007, 2012, 2018 and 2023, as Mass General states.

Awards and rankings

• U.S. News & World Report Best Hospitals 2026-2027: named to the Honor Roll of 20 hospitals (U.S. News & World Report).
• Ranked #1 for psychiatry in U.S. News & World Report's 2026-27 rankings, as Mass General states.

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617-726-2000

• Psychiatry

  Mass General says it is ranked #1 for psychiatry by U.S. News & World Report, 2026-27.

• Cancer

  Cancer care and research, which Mass General lists among its top 10 U.S. News specialties.

• Cardiology, heart and vascular surgery

  Heart and vascular care, also listed by Mass General among its top 10 specialties.

• Diabetes and endocrinology

  Endocrine care listed by the hospital among its top-ranked specialties.

• Obstetrics and gynecology

  Women's health and maternity care.

• Rheumatology

  Care for autoimmune and inflammatory joint disease.

• Ophthalmology, with Mass Eye and Ear

  Eye care delivered with Mass Eye and Ear, also part of Mass General Brigham.

• Visa services: Mass General Brigham's Office for Global Professionals and Scholars says it processes "visa sponsorship requests for all nonimmigrant staff, scholar, and student visas (including J-1, J-2, H-1B, TN, E-3, and O-1 visas)", advises hiring departments and foreign nationals, and advises on green cards and attorney referrals. Whether a particular job is sponsored is decided by the hiring department.
• Doctors: Mass General's residency and fellowship programs are Mass General Brigham programs. We found no single published institution-wide visa policy; program listings on the AMA's FREIDA database show visa options program by program, and most list J-1 sponsorship through ECFMG. Check each program's own page and FREIDA listing.
• Nurses: we found no international nurse recruitment program on Mass General or Mass General Brigham pages. Nurses trained abroad usually need a Massachusetts RN license first and an employer willing to sponsor an EB-3 green card.
• Observerships: Mass General has advertised an international observership program for practicing clinicians, but at our October 2026 check the program page redirected to the general hospital page, so we could not confirm it is open. Some departments run their own observerships.

• Registered nurses: a Massachusetts RN license from the Board of Registration in Nursing. The board requires nurses educated outside the US to have a credential evaluation from a board-approved agency, such as TruMerit (formerly CGFNS), sent to its application vendor, an approved English test if their education was not in English, and the NCLEX-RN.

• Visa for nurses: VisaScreen is required for most foreign registered nurses before a visa is issued. For most internationally educated nurses the long-term route is an employer-sponsored green card in the EB-3 category. USCIS says professional nurses are a Schedule A occupation, so the employer does not need a DOL-approved labor certification first; your wait then depends on the State Department Visa Bulletin for your country of birth.

• Doctors: ECFMG certification (which includes passing USMLE Step 1 and Step 2 CK), a residency or fellowship place, any training license the Massachusetts Board of Registration in Medicine requires, and a visa the program supports.

• H-1B: USCIS says certain new H-1B petitions filed at or after 12:01 a.m. Eastern on September 21, 2025 must be accompanied by an additional $100,000 payment unless an exception applies, so check with the employer before relying on an H-1B.

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   1. Separate the job from the visa

   Find a role first. Mass General Brigham's GPS office processes visas only once a hiring department decides to sponsor.
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   2. Nurses: start Massachusetts licensure

   Get a credential evaluation from a board-approved agency, meet the English requirement and apply to the Board of Registration in Nursing to sit the NCLEX-RN.
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   3. Search Mass General Brigham careers

   MGH jobs are posted on the Mass General Brigham careers site. Check each posting for Massachusetts license and work authorization requirements.
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   4. Doctors: check each program's visa options

   Read the program page and its FREIDA listing before applying through ERAS, so you know whether it takes J-1 only or also H-1B.
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   5. Work with GPS once offered

   After an offer, the hiring department starts the visa request with the Office for Global Professionals and Scholars.
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   6. Nurses: VisaScreen and EB-3

   Complete VisaScreen and follow the EB-3 process with whichever employer sponsors your green card.

• Registered nurses

  $106,180

  Median, May 2025. Mean $121,820; 10th to 90th percentile $81,880 to $188,670.

• Nurse practitioners

  $147,480

  Median, May 2025. Mean $155,480.

• Licensed practical and vocational nurses

  $82,190

  Median, May 2025. Mean $80,770.

• Pharmacists

  $139,660

  Median, May 2025. Mean $141,510.

• Physical therapists

  $103,550

  Median, May 2025. Mean $106,830.

• Respiratory therapists

  $104,580

  Median, May 2025. Mean $104,610.