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]
Boston University Media
Alexander Graham Bell, who invented the telephone at Boston University
688 Boylston Street in Boston, the early home of the College of Liberal Arts, the precursor to Boston University College of Arts and Sciences
Helen Magill White, who, in 1877, was the first woman to receive a PhD from an American university
Marsh Plaza and its surrounding buildings, one of the first completed sections of the Charles River campus
Commonwealth Avenue in the 1930s
Josep Lluís Sert's buildings expanded the campus in the 1960s
BU Exposure in March 1978
An aerial view of the campus in May 2023
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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References
- ↑ "Boston University FACT SHEET 2012/2013" (PDF). One Silber Way, Boston, MA 02215: Boston University Office of Institutional Research. 2013-06-16. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2018-10-03. Retrieved 2013-08-03.
End‐of‐Semester Enrollment, 2012/2013 Instructional and Research Faculty 2011/2012*
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Largest Private Employers in Boston, April, 2006 (With 1,000+ employees, listed alphabetically)
{{cite web}}: More than one of|archivedate=and|archive-date=specified (help); More than one of|archiveurl=and|archive-url=specified (help) - ↑ 3.0 3.1 Melvin I. Smith, Evolvements of Early American Foot Ball: Through the 1890/91 Season (Bloomington, IN: AuthorHouse, 2008), p. 562
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