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Boston University is no small operation: it has over 33,000 undergraduate and graduate students from more than 140 countries, 10,000 faculty and staff, 16 schools and colleges, and 250 fields of study. BU was founded in 1839.
Boston University offers bachelor’s degrees, master’s degrees, and doctorates, and medical, dental, business, and law degrees through eighteen schools and colleges on two urban campuses. The main campus is situated along the Charles River in Boston’s Fenway-Kenmore and Allston neighborhoods, while the Boston University Medical Campus is in Boston’s South End neighborhood. BU also operates 75 study abroad programs in more than 33 cities in over twenty countries and has internship opportunities in ten different countries (including the United States).
The university counts seven Nobel Laureates including Martin Luther King, Jr. (PhD ‘55) and Elie Wiesel, 35 Pulitzer Prize winners, nine Academy Award winners, Emmy and Tony Award winners among its faculty and alumni. BU also has MacArthur, Sloan, and Guggenheim Fellowship holders as well as American Academy of Arts and Sciences and National Academy of Sciences members among its past and present graduates and faculty.
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Professor of Marketing and Everett W. Lord Distinguished Faculty Scholar, Boston University
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Lecturer of History, Boston University
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Professor of the History of Christianity, Boston University
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Assistant Professor of Community Health Sciences, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston University
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Associate Professor of Markets, Public Policy and Law, Boston University
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Assistant Professor of Journalism and Emerging Media Studies, Boston University
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Interim Director of the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, Boston University
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Assistant Professor of Environmental Health, Boston University
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Research Fellow, Center for Philosophy and History of Science, Boston University
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Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations/Associate Professor of International Relations, Boston University
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Assistant Professor of Political Science, Boston University
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Associate Professor of Public Health, Boston University
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Walter G. Muelder Professor of Social Ethics, Boston University School of Theology
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Lecturer in Strategy and Innovation, Boston University
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Master Lecturer of Rhetoric, Boston University
