Boston University

With colleges and universities thick on the ground in Boston, Boston University (BU) amounts to more than just a hill of beans. Founded as a Methodist seminary in 1839, the private university has more than 33,000 students at its campus on the banks of the Charles River and its Medical Campus. The university offers more than 250 undergraduate, graduate, doctorate, and special degree programs at 17 colleges and schools. BU counts Nobel laureates Elie Wiesel (peace), Derek Walcott (literature), Sheldon Glashow (physics), and Osamu Shimomura (chemistry) among its more than 3,800 faculty members. Mission: Boston University is an international, comprehensive, private research university, committed to educating students to be reflective, resourceful individuals ready to live, adapt, and lead in an interconnected world. Boston University is committed to generating new knowledge to benefit society.