"Boston College (BU) is a private study university in Boston, Massachusetts. The university is nonsectarian, however has actually been traditionally affiliated with the United Methodist Church.

The college has over 3,900 faculty members as well as almost 33,000 students, as well as is just one of Boston's biggest employers. It offers bachelor's levels, master's levels, doctorates, as well as clinical, oral, business, as well as legislation levels via 18 institutions and universities on 2 urban schools. The main campus is situated along the Charles River in Boston's Fenway-Kenmore and also Allston neighborhoods, while the Boston University Medical University lies in Boston's South End area.

BU is categorized as an R1: Doctoral College (really high research task) in the Carnegie Classification of Organizations of College. BU is a member of the Boston Consortium for Higher Education and also the Organization of American Colleges.

Amongst its graduates and present or previous faculty, the university counts 8 Nobel Laureates, 23 Pulitzer Reward winners, 10 Rhodes Scholars, six Marshall Scholars, 48 Sloan Others, [16] nine Academy Award victors, and also a number of Emmy and Tony Honor victors. BU additionally has MacArthur, Fulbright, Truman and Guggenheim Fellowship holders in addition to American Academy of Arts and also Sciences as well as National Academy of Sciences members among its past as well as present graduates and professors. In 1876, BU teacher Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone in a BU lab.

The Boston University Terriers complete in the NCAA Division I. BU sports groups complete in the Patriot Organization, and Hockey East meetings, and also their mascot is Rhett the Boston Terrier. Boston College is well known for guys's hockey, in which it has won 5 championship games, most lately in 2009."