Boston University
School info
3.9
Overall Quality
Reputation
4.2
Food
3.7
Clubs
4
Facilities
3.7
Internet
3.7
Location
4.5
Opportunities
4.1
Safety
4.1
Social
3.7
Happiness
4
Basic Information
Location
- Boston, MA
Institution Overview
- Public/Private: Private research university
- Established: April 24, 1839; 185 years ago (April 24, 1839)
- Founder: Isaac Rich, Lee Claflin, Jacob Sleeper
Academic information
Degree Courses
- Over 300 majors and more than 90 minors
Key Area
- Biomedical Engineering
- Computing
- Data Science & Intelligent Systems
- Global Sustainability
- Infectious Diseases
Student and Staff Numbers
- Students: 37,557 (2023)
- Undergraduates: 17,744 (2023)
- Postgraduates: 18,476 (2023)
- Academic Staff: 4,309 (2023)
- Administrative Staff: 10,674 (2023) (including faculty)
Notable Alumni
- John Calvin Ferguson
- Martin Luther King Jr.
- Fe Del Mundo
- Bonnie Hammer
- Mark Thompson
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Good reviews
Overall 5
BU saved my life! Best thing that ever happened to me was coming to this school!
Overall 5
Love BU!!!!!
Overall 5
love it here!
Overall 5
I will glaze BU till the day I die.
Overall 5
If you hate the cold dont come here
Overall 5
Love
Overall 5
Wonderful!
Overall 5
Great School!
Overall 4.9
I love the campus in Boston!
Overall 4.9
Wonderful campus and people
Bad reviews
Overall 1.3
Forget the things this website asks you to grade the university on. DO NOT GO HERE. The professors are apathetic and unprepared at best. The advisors and staff are rude and unhelpful. The tuition is high. They try to compete with Harvard and MIT and fail badly.
Overall 1.6
This school charges for everything and doesn't have a very nice or professional school building. Everything is about fees. There are some professors who can be lecturers for graduate students even with only a graduate degree, even with bad English and very disrespectful to students. I
Overall 1.9
I’ve been at BU for three years and have not enjoyed it at all. I’m here for my masters and my treatment has been terrible. If you’re considering getting your masters here the name may carry weight but the treatment and the pay will never be worth it
Overall 1.9
Sucks.
Overall 2
Go to BU they said, shower in sewage water, they said. Seriously... bad medical care, broken down everything, 90% of BU is just office space for the rich and lazy. There is no campus, unlike our neighboring colleges. Tech here is a joke.
Overall 2
I have known around 10 people who got rejected from Early Decision to BC but got into BU with big aid through Regular Decision.
BU is an okay school, pretty easy to get into, it's just I wish it has a campus.