Boston University is ranked 94th in the world and 49th in the country.

Boston University, or BU for short, founded in 1839, is a long-established top research university in the world, and is also the third-largest private university in the United States, with its main campus located in downtown Boston Its main campus is located on the banks of the Charles River in downtown Boston, across the river from Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and its medical school campus is located in the Longwood medical district south of downtown Boston.

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Boston University is one of the most prestigious private universities in the United States, and is known as a "student haven". The current president, Robert A. Brown, is currently the first national university in the United States, a member of the Association of American Universities and the Patriot League, a consortium of the top universities in North America, and enjoys a very high academic reputation around the world.

The university is located in Boston, Massachusetts, United States, and is a private, nonsectarian university. It was founded as a Methodist seminary in Vermont in 1839, moved to Concord, New Hampshire, in 1847, then to Brookline, Massachusetts, in 1867, and finally to its present campus along the Charles River from 1939 to 1948.

As the nation's third oldest private university, Boston University has approximately 32,000 students from all 50 states and 125 countries, including approximately 4,700 international students. The university has 17 colleges and offers more than 250 programs, including one of the nation's top biomedical engineering programs, business, law, economics, and pre-medical programs.