- Inception
- 1869
- admission rate
- 0.20
- admission yield rate
- 0.24
- Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education
- doctoral universities: very high research activity, majority undergraduate, research doctoral: comprehensive programs, with medical/veterinary school, four-year, large, highly residential, four-year, full-time, more selective, lower transfer-in, balanced arts & sciences/professions, high graduate coexistence
- count of students
- 30009, 29338
- donations
- 752460439, 420933836, 442713301, 478784224, 432431459, 539254044, 514583182, 523093884, 572381320, 671730194
- employees
- 7450
- endowment
- 2421115000, 2980503073, 3401161958
- IPv6 routing prefix
- 2a03:b600:645::/107
- member of
- ORCID, Inc., Association of Research Libraries, Coalition of Open Access Policy Institutions, Consortium of Social Science Associations, arXiv, Association of American Universities, Association of American Colleges and Universities, American Council on Education, National Humanities Alliance, Higher Education Leadership Initiative for Open Scholarship, Coalition for Networked Information, Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition
- native label
- Boston University
- postal code
- 02215
- ranking
- 76, 70, 80, 75, 73, 72, 75, 71, 77, 76, 83, 98
- social media followers
- 103158, 99376, 106705, 109273, 190000
- street address
- One Silber Way, Boston, MA, 02215
- total assets
- 7210562000, 8017718487, 4329848069, 4939052767, 5035817244, 5188726734, 5890986351, 6392541992, 7019919366, 8292157093
- total revenue
- 3129652283, 1963904611, 2094280227, 2080233630, 2203820636, 2416360302, 2503487956, 2661508568, 2615858845, 2827583539