Boston University

Boston University (most frequently referred to as BU or contrarily accustomed as Boston U.) is a artful assay university amidst in Boston, Massachusetts. The university is nonsectarian, but is historically affiliated with the United Methodist Church.
The university has added than 3,800 adeptness assembly and 33,000 students, and is one of Boston's bigger employers. It offers bachelor's degrees, master's degrees, and doctorates, and medical, dental, business, and law degrees through eighteen schools and colleges on two burghal campuses. The basic campus is anchored alternating 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 aswell operates 75 absorption abroad programs in added than 33 cities in over twenty countries and has internship opportunities in ten adapted countries (including the United States).
BU is categorized as an RU/VH Assay University (very top assay activity) in the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education.BU is a associate of the Boston Consortium for Higher Education and the Association of American Universities.
The university counts seven Nobel Laureates including Martin Luther King, Jr. (PhD '55) and Elie Wiesel, 35 Pulitzer Prize winners, nine Academy Award winners, Emmy and Tony Award winners a allotment of its adeptness and alumni. BU aswell has MacArthur, Sloan, and Guggenheim Fellowship holders as able as American Academy of Arts and Sciences and Borough Academy of Sciences assembly a allotment of its able and present graduates and faculty.
The Boston University Terriers attack in the NCAA's Division I. BU able teams attack in the Patriot League, and Hockey East conferences, and their amulet is Rhett the Boston Terrier. Boston University is able accustomed for men's hockey, in which it has won 5 borough championships, a lot of again in 2009.
The University's basic Charles River Campus follows Commonwealth Avenue and the Green Line, alpha beside Kenmore Square and continuing for over a mile and a bisected to its end beside the apprenticed of Boston's Allston neighborhood. The Boston University Bridge over the Charles River into Cambridge represents the abacus bandage amidst Basic Campus, breadth a lot of schools and classroom barrio are concentrated, and West Campus, home to several able accessories and amphitheatre fields, the abounding West Campus dorm, and the new John Hancock Student Village complex.
As a aftereffect of its around-the-clock expansion, the Charles River campus contains an adjustment of architecturally different buildings. The College of Arts and Sciences, Marsh Chapel (site of the Marsh Chapel Experiment), and the School of Theology barrio are the university's a lot of credible and were complete in the late-1930s and 1940s in bookish gothic style. A abounding aggregate of the campus is adequate Boston brownstone, abnormally at Bay State Road and South Campus breadth BU has acquired about every townhouse those areas offer. The barrio are primarily dormitories but abounding aswell serve as different institutes as able as administering offices. From the 1960s–1980s abounding beside barrio were complete including the Mugar Library, BU Law School and Warren Towers, all of which were complete in the brutalist actualization of architecture. The Metcalf Science Center for Science and Engineering, complete in 1983, adeptness added accurately be declared as Structural Expressionism. Morse Auditorium, adjacent, stands in brusque architectural contrast, as it was complete as a Jewish temple. The a lot of abreast additions to BU's campus are the Photonics Center, Life Science and Engineering Building, The Student Village (which includes the FitRec Center and Agganis Arena), and the School of Management. All these barrio were complete in brick, a few with a abounding aggregate of brownstone.