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Boston University

Latin: Universitas Bostoniensis
Former name	Newbury Biblical Institute Methodist General Biblical Institute Boston Theological Seminary Boston Theological Institute
Motto	"Learning, Virtue, Piety"
Type	Private research university
Established	1839; 185 years ago (1839)
Religious affiliation	Historically affiliated with the United Methodist Church
Academic affiliations	AAU URA AICUM NAICU IAMSCU Space-grant
Endowment	$3.4 billion (2022)
President	Robert A. Brown
Provost	Jean Morrison
Academic staff	4,107 (2021)
Administrative staff	10,517 (2020) (including faculty)
Students	33,678 (2021)
Undergraduates	16,530 (2021)
Postgraduates	15,932 (2021)
Other students	1,216 (2021)
Location	Boston , Massachusetts , United States
Campus	Large City, 169 acres (0.68 km²)
Newspaper	The Daily Free Press
Colors	Scarlet and White
Nickname	Terriers
Sporting affiliations	NCAA Division I FCS – Patriot League Hockey East
Mascot	Rhett the Boston Terrier

Boston University (BU) is a private research university in Boston, Massachusetts. The university is nonsectarian, but has a historical affiliation with the United Methodist Church. It was founded in 1839 by Methodists with its original campus in Newbury, Vermont, before moving to Boston in 1867.

The university now has more than 4,000 faculty members and nearly 34,000 students, and is one of Boston's largest employers. It offers bachelor's degrees, master's degrees, doctorates, and medical, dental, business, and law degrees through 17 schools and colleges on three urban campuses. The main campus is situated along the Charles River in Boston's Fenway-Kenmore and Allston neighborhoods, while the Boston University Medical Campus is located in Boston's South End neighborhood. The Fenway campus houses the Wheelock College of Education and Human Development, formerly Wheelock College, which merged with BU in 2018.

BU is a member of the Boston Consortium for Higher Education and the Association of American Universities. It is classified among "R1: Doctoral Universities – Very High Research Activity".

Among its alumni and current or past faculty, the university counts 8 Nobel Laureates, 23 Pulitzer Prize winners, 10 Rhodes Scholars, 6 Marshall Scholars, 9 Academy Award winners, and several Emmy and Tony Award winners. BU also has MacArthur, Fulbright, and Truman Scholars, as well as American Academy of Arts and Sciences and National Academy of Sciences members, among its past and present graduates and faculty. In 1876, BU professor Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone in a BU lab.

The Boston University Terriers compete in the NCAA Division I. BU athletic teams compete in the Patriot League, and Hockey East conferences, and their mascot is Rhett the Boston Terrier. Boston University is well known for men's hockey, in which it has won five national championships, most recently in 2009.

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Alexander Graham Bell, who invented the telephone at Boston University
688 Boylston Street, the early home of the College of Liberal Arts, the precursor to the College of Arts & Sciences
Helen Magill White, the first woman to receive a PhD from an American university
Marsh Plaza and its surrounding buildings were one of the first completed parts of the Charles River Campus
Commonwealth Avenue in the 1930s
John Silber
Sert's buildings expanded the campus in the 1960s
The back page of the bu exposure, March 1979
Boston University's East Campus along Commonwealth Avenue
The "BU Beach" is a linear strip of land sandwiched between the main BU campus and busy Storrow Drive, and is used as an outdoors space to relax and sunbathe in good weather.
A brownstone townhouse used by Boston University as dormitory
Warren Towers constitutes the second-largest non-military dorm in the country.
Built in 1925 as the Myles Standish Hotel, this building was converted to dorm space in 1949.
Student Village II with Student Village I in the background, as viewed from Nickerson Field
The Elie Wiesel Center for Judaic Studies on Bay State Road
The Charles River and the university
The College of Arts and Sciences fronts along busy Commonwealth Avenue
Study abroad program sites
43 Harrington Gardens, the main academic building for Boston University's London Campus
The Talbot Building located on the medical campus houses the School of Public Health
Sponsored Program Awards FY1971-2016
Inside Agganis Arena after a hockey game
DeWolfe Boathouse
BU Sailing Pavilion.
Martin Luther King Jr. earned a PhD from BU in 1955
Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone
Robert Lowell
Elie Wiesel
Julianne Moore
Howard Stern
Morse Auditorium (built 1906)
Marsh Chapel (Ralph Adams Cram)
School of Education (built 1925)
Boston University Theatre
Law Tower (built 1964, Josep Lluís Sert)
Photonics Center (built 1997)
Talbot Building, School of Public Health
Moakley Building, Boston Medical Center
Boston University School of Medicine
Instructional building on medical campus
National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories
BU Bridge
Agganis Arena
View of Boston from the John Hancock Student Village

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