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Boston University

Latin: Universitas Bostoniensis
Motto	Learning, Virtue, Piety
Type	Private – Research
Established	1839
Endowment	$1.655 billion (2016)
President	Robert A. Brown
Provost	Jean Morrison
Academic staff	3,920 (2016)
Administrative staff	9,962 (2016)(including faculty)
Students	33,106 (2016)
Undergraduates	16,478 (2016)
Postgraduates	14,150 (2016)
Other students	2,478 (2016)
Location	Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Campus	Urban 135 acres (0.55 km2) (Fenway-Charles River Campus) 80 acres (0.32 km2) (Medical campus)
Colors	Scarlet and white
Athletics	NCAA Division I – Patriot League, Hockey East
Nickname	Terriers
Mascot	Rhett the Boston Terrier
Affiliations	AAU URA AICUM NAICU IAMSCU
Website	www.bu.edu

Boston University (commonly referred to as BU) is a private research university located in Boston, Massachusetts. The university is nonsectarian, and is historically affiliated with the United Methodist Church.

The university has more than 3,900 faculty members and nearly 33,000 students, and is one of Boston's largest employers. It offers bachelor's degrees, master's degrees, and doctorates, and medical, dental, business, and law degrees through 17 schools and colleges on two 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 in Boston's South End neighborhood.

BU is categorized as an R1: Doctoral University (very high research activity) in the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education. BU is a member of the Boston Consortium for Higher Education and the Association of American Universities. The University was ranked 39th among undergraduate programs at national universities, and 32nd among global universities by U.S. News & World Report in its 2017 rankings.

Among its alumni and current or past faculty, the university counts eight Nobel Laureates, 23 Pulitzer Prize winners, 10 Rhodes Scholars, six Marshall Scholars, 48 Sloan Fellows, nine Academy Award winners, and several Emmy and Tony Award winners. BU also has MacArthur, Fulbright, Truman and Guggenheim Fellowship holders 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. American Civil Rights Movement leader and 1964 Nobel Peace Prize winner Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. received his PhD in Theology from BU in 1955.