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There are 79,438 Arts and Sciences Alumni around the world, by far Boston University's largest alumni segment.

To access the CAS/GRS Alumni Web, for listings of events and ways to get involved, click here.

College of Arts and Sciences Alumni: 61,625

Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Alumni: 17,813

 


In 2005/2006, total giving to Arts and Sciences from individuals, corporations, foundations, and other private sources was $12,104,549.

Annual giving to the College and Graduate School by their alumni in 2005/2006 totaled $679,509.

Alumni Support in Action: Recent Gifts to Arts and Sciences >>

 

Arts and Sciences International Alumni: 5,462
Our alumni live all over the world – Algeria, Zimbabwe, Thailand, Taiwan, the Sudan, Greece, Singapore, Korean, Sri Lanka, Brazil, Hong Kong, Haiti, Honduras, United Arab Emirates, Israel, Italy, Bangladesh, China, Bermuda, Bolivia, Brazil, Egypt, Fiji, Indonesia, Iran, Malaysia – to name a few!

Our largest international populations are (in order):
Japan
Canada
United Kingdom
France
Korea
Germany/Greece
Taiwan

And others following close behind: Spain, Hong Kong, India, Israel, China

Arts and Sciences Domestic Alumni: 77,092
More than half of our domestic alumni population is located in the New England (31,532) and New York/New Jersey area (13,155) (for a total of 44,687). Other large concentrations are in California (5,621), Florida (3,113), Pennsylvania (2,256), Illinois (1431), Texas (1,195), and Washington, D.C. (829).

*Please note: alumni counts include the Class of 2006 and represent the number of living alumni, as per Boston University's alumni database.

Collegium and Academy of Distinguished Alumni • 2007 Inductees
College and Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Paul Pepe
CAS’72 | bio
Ajmal M. Qureshi
GRS’78 | bio
Cornelia H. Sanders
CAS’65, SAR’65, GRS’68 | bio
Complete list of past award winners >>

Notable Arts and Sciences Alumni

Joan Aruz (DGE’60, CAS’62)
Near East Curator, Metropolitan Museum of Art

Louise Bogan (CAS’19)
Poet and literary critic

Owen Flanagan (GRS Ph.D. 1977)
Philosopher, James B. Duke Professor, Duke University

Jim Gianopulos (CAS’73)
Head of Fox Filmed Entertainment

Jussi Hanhimaki (GRS'88,'93)
Historian, Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva, Switzerland

Ha Jin (GRS’94)
Two-time PEN/Faulkner Award–winning author

Stephen Kinzer (CAS'73)
New York Times correspondent

Jhumpa Lahiri (GRS'93, UNI'95, '97)
Pulitzer Prize winning author

Martin Luther King, Jr. (GRS’55, Hon. ’59)
Civil rights leader, Nobel Peace Prize winner

Albert Maysles (GRS'53)
Documentary filmmaker

Sue Miller (GRS’80)
Best-selling novelist

Robert B. Parker (GRS'57, GRS'71)
Mystery writer

Norman Vincent Peale (GRS’24, STH’24, Hon. ’86)
Influential clergyman

George Wein (CAS’50)
Founder of the Newport Jazz Festival

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