"Boston University (BU) is a private study college in Boston, Massachusetts. The university is nonsectarian, yet has actually been historically connected with the United Methodist Church.

The college has more than 3,900 faculty members and virtually 33,000 pupils, and also is just one of Boston's biggest companies. It supplies bachelor's degrees, master's degrees, doctorates, and clinical, oral, service, and also regulation levels via 18 institutions and also universities on two urban schools. The primary campus is positioned along the Charles River in Boston's Fenway-Kenmore as well as Allston neighborhoods, while the Boston University Medical Campus is located in Boston's South End neighborhood.

BU is classified as an R1: Doctoral University (really high research task) in the Carnegie Category of Organizations of Higher Education. BU is a member of the Boston Consortium for College and also the Organization of American Universities.

Among its alumni as well as existing or previous professors, the university counts 8 Nobel Laureates, 23 Pulitzer Reward champions, 10 Rhodes Scholars, six Marshall Scholars, 48 Sloan Others, [16] nine Academy Award champions, as well as a number of Emmy as well as Tony Honor champions. BU also has MacArthur, Fulbright, Truman and also Guggenheim Fellowship holders in addition to American Academy of Arts and Sciences and also National Academy of Sciences participants among its past as well as present graduates and also professors. In 1876, BU professor Alexander Graham Bell designed the telephone in a BU lab.

The Boston University Terriers compete in the NCAA Department I. BU sports groups contend in the Patriot Organization, and Hockey East conferences, and their mascot is Rhett the Boston Terrier. Boston College is well known for males's hockey, in which it has won 5 national championships, most lately in 2009."