Category: Learning
Comics Artist Joel Christian Gill Launches BU’s New Visual Narrative MFA Degree
Joel Christian Gill is the director and a faculty member—along with Paul Karasik, lecturer in art—of BU’s new Master of Fine Arts in Visual Narrative program. There are about 10 such MFA programs in the country, he says. The program drew 11 students for last fall’s debut. They study with Gill in a third-floor classroom at the 808 Gallery. The degree is for illustrators interested in producing media such as comics and graphic books, picture books, and animation.
BU Online Programs among the Nation’s Best, for Tenth Consecutive Year
A trio of online master’s degree programs—criminal justice, computer information technology, and business—at Boston University’s Metropolitan College have been ranked by U.S. News & World Report among the country’s best for the 10th year in a row. U.S. News bases its rankings on students’ opportunities to interact online with professors and one another; faculty’s academic credentials; diversity of online learning technologies, coupled with out-of-class resources for learning, career guidance, and financial aid; assessments from academic peers; and the “proven aptitudes, ambitions, and accomplishments” of students in the programs.
BU Climbs in U.S. News & World Report National College Rankings
Boston University moved up one spot, to number 41, in the latest U.S. News & World Report ranking of National Universities, while the Questrom School of Business saw a big jump among business schools and the University overall climbed in the innovation category, according to the list.
LAW Clinical Professor Awarded Metcalf Cup and Prize
Constance A. Browne wins the 2022 Metcalf Cup and Prize. She teaches in the Civil Litigation & Justice Program clinic, supervising students as they represent low-income clients in unemployment, disability, housing, and other cases through Greater Boston Legal Services. The winner receives the University’s top honor and $10,000.
BU’s New Robotics Lab Fosters Student Innovators
BU undergraduates and master’s students will explore robotics at a new College of Engineering lab. The $8.8 million, 2,000-square-foot Robotics and Autonomous Systems Teaching and Innovation Center, at the site of the former CVS at 730 Commonwealth Ave., will open in summer 2023.
University’s Admission Rate Drops to 14 Percent
The Class of 2026 stands to be BU’s strongest ever, with just 14 percent of a record 80,794 applicants admitted to a class of 3,100 freshmen. Over the past decade, BU’s admittance rate has dropped from 46 percent in 2012 to 14 percent in this year’s admissions season.
Graduate Programs Advance in 2023 U.S. News Rankings
Several BU schools rose in the latest rankings of best US graduate schools by U.S. News & World Report, with the School of Medicine notching the largest leap for its primary care program.
BU’s Innovator of the Year Uses History to Shape Future
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering Selim Ünlü is named Boston University’s 2021 Innovator of the Year. He relays the importance of science history to students, adding context to the advanced technology students use today and illustrating the impact of iterative innovation.
BU’s Entrepreneur Education and Alumni Earn High Rankings
Boston University ranks among the best universities in the world for entrepreneur education, according to two sources. Princeton Review puts BU at 25th among universities with graduate programs in entrepreneurship, and PitchBook ranks BU at 34th in the firm’s top 50 undergraduate and MBA programs that produce successful entrepreneurs.
School of Public Health to Offer Online Master’s
Boston University’s School of Public Health will offer an online Master of Public Health starting in January 2023, building on the success of the Online MBA launched by Questrom School of Business in 2020. The MPH will be offered in partnership with the online education company edX. “The online master’s in public health…will allow us to reach students we might not otherwise be able to reach,” says Jean Morrison, University provost and chief academic officer.
