Category: Learning
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.
BU Launches Data Science As an Undergraduate Major
Drawing on various topics in traditional STEM disciplines, the new Bachelor of Science in data science, available in fall 2022 and offered by the Faculty of Computing & Data Sciences (CDS), provides students with the foundational knowledge and practical training in algorithmic and statistical data analysis, machine learning, and software engineering—crucial competencies in a world increasingly defined by computation, big data, and artificial intelligence.
St. Elizabeth’s Joins List of MED Teaching Hospitals
As part of an agreement between the University and Steward Health Care, St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center in Brighton will become BU’s newest teaching hospital. The five-year partnership deepens and expands the existing relationship between BU and St. Elizabeth’s in a way that benefits students, faculty, and patients.
Student COVID-19 Safety Campaign Gets National Recognition
F*ck It Won’t Cut It, the student-led campaign to encourage students to take preventive measures against COVID-19 to stay safe on campus, gains national attention from public health leaders. The American Marketing Association asked the student team to lead a virtual audience engagement session at its 2020 Symposium for the Marketing of Higher Education, and the group spoke at a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention webinar for university administrators and health staff.
Ascending the Ranks of Times Higher Ed
BU advanced 7 spots, to number 54, in the latest Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings. The London-based magazine and data analyst compared more than 1,500 universities in 93 nations. THE lauded the University’s prodigious faculty scholarship, small student-to-teacher ratio, access to varied cultural events, research productivity, robust study abroad program, and diverse international student population.
BU Campuses to Reopen with In-Person Classes in Fall
The residential experience of Boston University will resume this fall, President Robert A. Brown announced in letters to new and returning students. But, he wrote, it will be a “very different campus,” than what students, faculty, and staff are accustomed to—with COVID-19 testing and tracing, a blend of in-person and remote teaching and learning, redesigned experiences inside campus residences, dining halls, classrooms, and labs, and daily activities where masks and social distancing are expected.
