BU Hub

The BU Hub is the university-wide general education program that emphasizes working across disciplines to prepare for a complex and diverse world. The Hub helps students explore a variety of courses and innovative learning experiences — creating their own personal educational pathway. Specifically, the Hub helps students develop six essential capacities to thrive in their personal, professional, and civic lives:

  1. Philosophical, Aesthetic, and Historical Interpretation
  2. Scientific and Social Inquiry
  3. Quantitative Reasoning
  4. Diversity, Civic Engagement, and Global Citizenship;
  5. Communication
  6. Intellectual Toolkit

Why the BU Hub?

  • BU has always had general education requirements that spanned math, science, writing, humanities, and social sciences. The BU Hub standardizes these across campus and strengthens their goals.
  • With a combination of intensified existing courses and new offerings, students increase their opportunity to develop knowledge, skills, and habits of mind  to be lifelong learners and leaders in a rapidly evolving, interconnected, globalized world.
  • Many of the Hub requirements are built directly into degree requirements; the rest will be earned through elective courses.

Hub Resources

  • Your degree advice report tracks your Hub requirements.
  • While many of your major’s requirements fulfill Hub requirements, you can select among a range of integrative and innovative options to complete your degree.
  • Each semester, you will discuss your academic and professional goals with your advisor prior to registering for classes. To help select your Hub courses, you can review these elective options.