Graph of BU Research Awards Excluding Financial Assistance
Graph of Total Academic Research and Development Expenditures
Leadership President Robert A. Brown
  University Provost David K. Campbell
  Provost, Medical Campus Karen H. Antman
Students undergraduate 16,685
  graduate 13,123
  non-degree 2,927
Faculty and Staff full-time faculty 2,739
  part-time faculty 1,192
  full-time staff 5,050
  part-time staff 336
Campus acres 133
  buildings 320
  classrooms 481
  laboratories 2,006
  total residence capacity 10,617
Libraries libraries and special collections 23
  volumes 2.5 million
  periodicals 45,264
  microform units 4.7 million
Computing Facilities Supercomputers
  • IBM BlueGene/L supercomputer with 1,024 nodes
  • IBM pSeries 690 with 112 processors
  • IBM pSeries 655 with 48 processors
  • IBM xSeries Linux cluster with 100 processors
  • IBM Blade Center Linux cluster with 88 processors
  Specialized High-Performance Computer Laboratories
  • Deep Vision Display Wall
  • Access Grid Conference Facility
  • Computer Graphics Laboratory
  • LIVE: Laboratory for Virtual Environments
  High-Performance Networking
  • Fiber Optic Metro Ring interconnecting Boston University, Harvard, and MIT
  • Northern Crossroads (NoX)
  • Internet2
  Computing Labs
  • UNIX, Windows, and Macintosh labs
  • ResNet Computer Labs
  • More than 30 additional departmental computer laboratories
Research Sponsored Programs Revenue 2007/2008 $336,316,210
Financial Resources Endowment $1,138 million
  Total assets $3.4 billion
     

Enrollment and staffing figures as of fall 2007. All other figures as of June 30, 2007, unless otherwise specified.