41 Different Faith Traditions Represented
  • United Methodist
    68
  • Other Methodist Family
    20
  • Baptist
    17
  • UCC/Congregational
    26
  • Anglican/Episcopal 
    21
  • AOG/Pent/Cogic
    8
  • Roman Catholic
    23
  • Unitarian Universalist
    19
  • Presbyterian
    10
  • Other, Christian
    59
  • Other, Non-Christian
    12
  • None/Undisclosed
    22
Students by ethnicity
  • 14% Black/African American
  • 7% Asian
  • 5% Latinx
  • 1% Multiracial
  • 52% white
  • 22% International students
Full-time faculty by ethnicity
  • 20% Asian/Asian-American
  • 16% Hispanic/Latinx
  • 7% Black/African American
  • 57% white
Oldest United Methodist Church seminary in the United States
Founded as Newbury Bible Institute in 1839
27
BU's rank among US Universities for best colleges -Wall Street Journal/Times Higher Education
37
states and territories represented by student body
18
student groups and interest groups at STH
41
BU's rank among best global universities -U.S. News & World Report
34
Average Master's student age
40K
dollars per year spent on our free weekly community lunch
100
percent of residential master's students receiving full tuition scholarships
21
countries represented by student body
47/53
percentage of male/female students
150+
students, faculty, staff & friends fed by our weekly community lunch
40/60
percentage of male/female full-time faculty
68
articles, chapters, and books published by our faculty in the past year as of October 2022
3.7K
STH alumni worldwide
9:1
students/faculty ratio
4
travel seminars available each year