{"id":615,"date":"2014-06-11T10:57:52","date_gmt":"2014-06-11T14:57:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/community\/?page_id=615"},"modified":"2019-05-09T14:57:49","modified_gmt":"2019-05-09T18:57:49","slug":"economic-impact","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/community\/economic-impact\/","title":{"rendered":"Economic Impact"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"about\">\n<p>The economic <a href=\"\/community\/files\/2017\/10\/BU-in-MA.pdf\">impact<\/a>\u00a0of Boston University in Massachusetts is substantial\u2014nearly $4 billion annually.\u00a0This includes approximately $175 million in goods and services purchased annually from Boston vendors, $11+ million in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/finaid\/apply\/boston-public-high-school-students\/\">scholarships<\/a> to Boston public school graduates (FY2018), and $6.3 million in PILOT payments (FY2018). We are Boston&#8217;s third-largest private employer, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/community\/economic-impact\/financial-contributions\/\">spending<\/a>\u00a0in Boston by our students and visitors totals over $275 million each year.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"bluebg\">\n<h2>2018 Boston University Fact Sheet<\/h2>\n<ul class=\"factcolumn\">\n<li><strong>34,262<\/strong>\u00a0students (Fall 2017 mid-semester)<\/li>\n<li><strong>130+<\/strong> countries that our students call home<\/li>\n<li><strong>14,203<\/strong>\u00a0faculty and staff<\/li>\n<li><strong>17<\/strong>\u00a0schools and colleges<\/li>\n<li><strong>300+<\/strong> programs of study<\/li>\n<li><strong>3rd<\/strong> largest private employer in Boston<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul class=\"factcolumn\">\n<li><strong>&gt;$3.9<\/strong> billion economic impact in Massachusetts<\/li>\n<li><strong>$419.3<\/strong>\u00a0million\u00a0in grant and contract awards (FY2018)<\/li>\n<li><strong>$11+<\/strong>\u00a0million in scholarships to Boston public school graduates (FY2018)<\/li>\n<li><strong>~$275<\/strong> million annually in student and visitor spending in Boston<\/li>\n<li><strong>Hundreds<\/strong> of social programs geared to Bostonians<\/li>\n<li><strong>100,000+<\/strong>\u00a0student community service hours<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The economic impact\u00a0of Boston University in Massachusetts is substantial\u2014nearly $4 billion annually.\u00a0This includes approximately $175 million in goods and services purchased annually from Boston vendors, $11+ million in scholarships to Boston public school graduates (FY2018), and $6.3 million in PILOT payments (FY2018). We are Boston&#8217;s third-largest private employer, and spending\u00a0in Boston by our students and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5235,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":5,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-landing-alt1.php","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/615"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5235"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=615"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1158,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/615\/revisions\/1158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}