"Boston College (BU) is a private study college in Boston, Massachusetts. The college is nonsectarian, yet has actually been traditionally affiliated with the United Methodist Church.

The university has more than 3,900 faculty members and almost 33,000 students, and is just one of Boston's biggest employers. It supplies bachelor's levels, master's degrees, doctorates, and also clinical, dental, service, and law degrees through 18 institutions and also universities on 2 metropolitan schools. The major campus is located along the Charles River in Boston's Fenway-Kenmore and Allston areas, while the Boston College Medical School lies in Boston's South End area.

BU is classified as an R1: Doctoral University (very high research task) in the Carnegie Classification of Organizations of College. BU belongs to the Boston Consortium for College and the Organization of American Colleges.

Among its alumni and present or past faculty, the university counts eight Nobel Laureates, 23 Pulitzer Prize victors, 10 Rhodes Scholars, 6 Marshall Scholars, 48 Sloan Fellows, [16] nine Academy Honor champions, and a number of Emmy and also Tony Honor victors. BU also has MacArthur, Fulbright, Truman as well as Guggenheim Fellowship holders along with American Academy of Arts and also Sciences and National Academy of Sciences members among its past as well as existing grads as well as faculty. In 1876, BU teacher Alexander Graham Bell created the telephone in a BU lab.

The Boston College Terriers compete in the NCAA Division I. BU athletic teams complete in the Patriot Organization, and also Hockey East meetings, as well as their mascot is Rhett the Boston Terrier. Boston University is popular for males's hockey, in which it has won 5 national championships, most just recently in 2009."