National Institutes of Health

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is a federal biomedical research agency located in Bethesda, Maryland. NIH appears in IPEDS records as a provider of graduate-level biomedical and clinical research training through its intramural research program. The agency operates one of the largest biomedical research campuses in the world. No specific enrollment, completion, or retention data is available in IPEDS records for this entry.

NIH training programs are primarily oriented toward postdoctoral researchers, graduate students, and clinical fellows engaged in biomedical sciences, public health, and translational medicine. Specific credentialed program offerings are not listed in current IPEDS records.

Bethesda is an unincorporated community in Montgomery County, Maryland, immediately adjacent to Washington, D.C. NIH's Bethesda campus serves as a hub for federally sponsored health research and advanced scientific training with national and international significance.