Boston University
Boston University (also called Boston U or BU) is a private university in Boston, Massachusetts. The university has more than 3,800 faculty members and 33,000 students,[1] BU is one of Boston's largest employers.[2] It offers bachelor's degrees, master's degrees, and doctorates, and medical, dental, business, and law degrees. Boston University has eighteen schools and colleges on two urban campuses. Boston University traces its roots to the Newbury Biblical Institute in Newbury, Vermont. It was started in 1839.[3] In 1869 the school moved to Boston under the name "Boston University".[3]
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Boston University Media
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Alexander Graham Bell, who invented the telephone at Boston University
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688 Boylston Street in Boston, the early home of the College of Liberal Arts, the precursor to Boston University College of Arts and Sciences
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Helen Magill White, who, in 1877, was the first woman to receive a PhD from an American university
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Marsh Plaza and its surrounding buildings, one of the first completed sections of the Charles River campus
Commonwealth Avenue in the 1930s
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Josep Lluís Sert's buildings expanded the campus in the 1960s
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BU Exposure in March 1978
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An aerial view of the campus in May 2023
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Resident life and graduate workers at the university on strike for better protections and pay in April 2024
Boston University's East Campus along Commonwealth Avenue
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