BOSTON UNIVERSITY

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BOSTON UNIVERSITY

Boston University (most frequently referred to as BU or contrarily accepted as Boston U.) is a clandestine analysis university amid in Boston, Massachusetts. The university is nonsectarian, but is historically affiliated with the United Methodist Church.
The university has added than 3,800 adroitness associates and 33,000 students, and is one of Boston's better 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 capital campus is anchored forth 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 abstraction away programs in added than 33 cities in over twenty countries and has internship opportunities in ten altered countries (including the United States).
BU is categorized as an RU/VH Analysis University (very top analysis activity) in the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education.BU is a affiliate 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 part of its adroitness and alumni. BU aswell has MacArthur, Sloan, and Guggenheim Fellowship holders as able-bodied as American Academy of Arts and Sciences and Civic Academy of Sciences associates a part of its accomplished and present graduates and faculty.
The Boston University Terriers attempt in the NCAA's Division I. BU able-bodied teams attempt in the Patriot League, and Hockey East conferences, and their amulet is Rhett the Boston Terrier. Boston University is able-bodied accepted for men's hockey, in which it has won 5 civic championships, a lot of afresh in 2009.
The University's capital Charles River Campus follows Commonwealth Avenue and the Green Line, alpha abreast Kenmore Square and continuing for over a mile and a bisected to its end abreast the bound of Boston's Allston neighborhood. The Boston University Bridge over the Charles River into Cambridge represents the adding band amid Capital Campus, area a lot of schools and classroom barrio are concentrated, and West Campus, home to several able-bodied accessories and arena fields, the ample 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 arrangement of architecturally assorted 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 apparent and were congenital in the late-1930s and 1940s in bookish gothic style. A ample bulk of the campus is acceptable Boston brownstone, abnormally at Bay State Road and South Campus area BU has acquired about every townhouse those areas offer. The barrio are primarily dormitories but abounding aswell serve as assorted institutes as able-bodied as administration offices. From the 1960s–1980s abounding abreast barrio were complete including the Mugar Library, BU Law School and Warren Towers, all of which were congenital in the brutalist appearance of architecture. The Metcalf Science Center for Science and Engineering, complete in 1983, ability added accurately be declared as Structural Expressionism. Morse Auditorium, adjacent, stands in abrupt architectural contrast, as it was complete as a Jewish temple. The a lot of contempo 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 congenital in brick, a few with a abundant bulk of brownstone.