Boston University is a non-sectarian private university located in
Boston, Massachusetts. It was founded in 1839 in Vermont as a Methodist seminary, then transferred to New Hampshire in
1847, to Brookline, Massachusetts in 1867, and
finally moved to its present campus along the Charles River in Boston in
1928. It should not be confused with Boston College, an entirely
separate university in Chestnut Hill,
Massachusetts.
The university, with over 2,000 faculty and nearly 30,000 students, represents the fourth largest private university in the
nation. It operates on two urban campuses, the main campus on the Charles
River in Boston's Back Bay, and the Boston
University Medical Center in Boston's South End neighborhood.
Boston University includes Colleges of Fine Arts, Arts and Sciences, Communication, Engineering, General Studies, and Health
and Rehabilitation; Schools of Education, Dentistry, Hospitality Administration, Law, Medicine, Management, Music, Public Health,
Social Work, Theatre Arts, and Visual Arts; as well as the prestigious University Professors program. The university offers
associate, bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees.
Boston University's Terriers compete in basketball, cross country, golf, ice hockey, rowing, soccer, swimming, tennis and
wrestling, while the Lady Terriers compete in basketball, cross country, field hockey, golf, lacrosse, rowing, soccer, swimming,
tennis, and track. The school's athletic teams compete in the America East, Hockey East, and Colonial Athletic Association conferences, and
their mascot is Rhett the Boston Terrier. Boston University recently
constructed the new Agganis Arena, which opened on January 3, 2005 with a men's hockey game between the Terriers and the
University of Minnesota Golden Gophers.
Notable alumni include
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