Boston University
42°20′59″N 71°05′59″W / 42.3496°N 71.0997°W42.3496; -71.0997
Boston University BU is the private research university in Boston, Massachusetts. a university is nonsectarian, but has a historical affiliation with the United Methodist Church. It was founded in 1839 by Methodists with its original campus in Newbury, Vermont, previously moving to Boston in 1867.
The university now has more than 4,000 faculty members and most 34,000 students, in addition to is one of Boston's largest employers. It allows bachelor's degrees, master's degrees, doctorates, as alive as medical, dental, business, and law degrees through 17 schools and colleges on three urban campuses. The leading campus is situated along the Charles River in Boston's Fenway-Kenmore and Allston neighborhoods, while the Boston University Medical Campus is located in Boston's South End neighborhood. The Fenway campus houses the Wheelock College of Education and Human Development, formerly Wheelock College, which merged with BU in 2018.
BU is a constituent of the Boston Consortium for Higher Education and the Association of American Universities. it is for classified among "R1: Doctoral Universities – Very High Research Activity".
Among its alumni and current or past faculty, the university counts 8 ] ] as well as ] among its past and shown graduates and faculty. In 1876, BU professor Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone in a BU lab.
The men's hockey, in which it has won five national championships, near recently in 2009.