Boston University

Boston University, commonly called BU, is a private research university in Boston, Massachusetts, United States, founded by a group of Boston Methodists in 1839.波士顿大学（Boston University），简称 BU，是位于美国马萨诸塞州波士顿的一所私立研究型大学，1839 年由一批波士顿循道宗信徒创办。

It began as the Newbury Biblical Institute in Newbury, Vermont, and was chartered in Boston in 1869, and it is a member of the Association of American Universities.学校最初是佛蒙特州纽伯里的纽伯里圣经学院，1869 年在波士顿获特许建校，现为美国大学协会成员。

In fall 2025 it enrolled 38,093 students, of whom 18,253 were undergraduates and 18,341 postgraduates, taught by 3,412 full-time faculty, and it placed 94th in the 2027 QS World University Rankings.2025 年秋季全校在校学生 38093 人，其中本科生 18253 人、研究生 18341 人，专任教师 3412 人，在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中位列第 94。

History

• On 24 and 25 April 1839 a group of Methodist ministers and laymen meeting at the Old Bromfield Street Church in Boston decided to found a Methodist theological school.1839 年 4 月 24 日和 25 日，一批循道宗牧师与平信徒在波士顿老布罗姆菲尔德街教堂集会，决定创办一所循道宗神学院。

• The school was set up in Newbury, Vermont, as the Newbury Biblical Institute, with its original campus in that town.学校设于佛蒙特州纽伯里，名为纽伯里圣经学院，最初的校园即位于该镇。

• In 1847 the Congregational Society of Concord, New Hampshire, invited the institute to move and offered a disused church seating 1,200, and it became the Methodist General Biblical Institute.1847 年，新罕布什尔州康科德的公理会邀请学院迁入，并提供一座可容纳 1200 人的旧教堂，学校遂改称循道宗圣经学院。

• When the agreed twenty years in Concord ended, the institute moved in 1867 to Pinkney Street on Boston's Beacon Hill and received a Massachusetts charter as the Boston Theological Seminary.康科德约定的二十年期满后，学院于 1867 年迁至波士顿灯塔山的平克尼街，并获马萨诸塞州特许，改名波士顿神学院。

• In 1869 three trustees, the businessmen Isaac Rich, Lee Claflin and Jacob Sleeper, obtained from the legislature a charter for a university named Boston University.1869 年，三位校董、商人艾萨克·里奇、李·克拉弗林与雅各布·斯利珀从州议会取得特许，成立名为波士顿大学的学府。

• Lee Claflin's son William, then governor of Massachusetts, signed the charter on 26 May 1869, and the three trustees are regarded as the university's founders.李·克拉弗林之子、时任马萨诸塞州州长威廉·克拉弗林于 1869 年 5 月 26 日签署特许状，这三位校董被视为学校的创办人。

• The charter provided that no instructor should be required to profess particular religious opinions and no student refused admission on religious grounds, and every department was open regardless of sex or race.特许状规定不得要求教师表明特定宗教信仰、不得因宗教理由拒绝录取学生，且各院系不论性别与种族一律开放。

• In 1871 the Boston Theological Institute was absorbed into Boston University as its School of Theology.1871 年，波士顿神学院并入波士顿大学，成为其神学院。

• When Isaac Rich died in 1872 he left most of his estate, appraised at more than 1.5 million dollars, to the university, at the time the largest single gift to an American college.1872 年艾萨克·里奇去世时，把估值逾 150 万美元的大部分遗产留给学校，这在当时是对美国高校最大的一笔单笔捐赠。

• The Great Boston Fire of 1872 destroyed almost all the buildings Rich had left, and his estate was worth only half as much when it reached the university in 1882.1872 年波士顿大火烧毁了里奇所留建筑的几乎全部，到 1882 年遗产移交学校时，其价值只剩一半。

• In 1875 Alexander Graham Bell, then a professor, received a year's salary in advance to pursue his research and invented the telephone in a Boston University laboratory.1875 年，时任教授的亚历山大·格拉汉姆·贝尔预支一年薪金从事研究，并在波士顿大学的实验室里发明了电话。

• In 1876 Borden Parker Bowne became professor of philosophy and founded the school of thought known as Boston Personalism.1876 年，博登·帕克·鲍恩出任哲学教授，开创了被称为「波士顿人格主义」的思想流派。

• In 1877 the university became the first in the United States to award a doctorate to a woman when the classicist Helen Magill White earned hers, and in 1878 Anna Oliver became the first woman to receive a theology degree in the country.1877 年，古典学者海伦·马吉尔·怀特取得博士学位，使学校成为美国首个授予女性博士学位的大学；1878 年安娜·奥利弗成为全美首位获得神学学位的女性。

• Lelia J. Robinson, who graduated from its law school in 1881, became the first woman admitted to the Massachusetts bar, and in 1897 Solomon Carter Fuller became the first black psychiatrist in the United States.1881 年从法学院毕业的莉利亚·罗宾逊成为马萨诸塞州首位获准执业的女性律师；1897 年所罗门·卡特·富勒成为美国首位黑人精神科医生。

• In the 1920s president Lemuel Murlin arranged the purchase of riverside land on the Charles River for a unified campus, though plans were scaled back when the state seized part of the land for Storrow Drive.二十世纪二十年代，校长莱缪尔·默林买下查尔斯河畔土地以整合校园，但因州政府为修建斯托罗车道征地，原规划被缩减。

• His successor Daniel L. Marsh led fundraising campaigns that gradually filled in the new campus, and by spring 1936 the student body numbered 10,384.其继任者丹尼尔·马什通过一系列筹款逐步建起新校园，到 1936 年春在校学生达 10384 人。

• Under president Harold C. Case, from 1951 to 1967, the campus tripled in size to 45 acres and added 68 buildings, including the Claflin, Rich and Sleeper residence halls.1951 至 1967 年在校长哈罗德·凯斯任内，校园面积增至三倍达 45 英亩，新增 68 栋建筑，其中包括克拉弗林、里奇与斯利珀三座宿舍楼。

• Between 1961 and 1966 the Brutalist BU Law Tower, the George Sherman Union and the Mugar Memorial Library were built, and in 1965 work began on Warren Towers, designed to house 1,800 students.1961 至 1966 年间，粗野主义风格的法学楼、乔治·谢尔曼学生活动中心与穆加纪念图书馆相继建成，1965 年可容纳 1800 人的沃伦塔楼开工。

• President John Silber, who arrived in 1971, recruited star faculty and two of them, Elie Wiesel and Derek Walcott, won Nobel Prizes shortly afterwards.1971 年到任的校长约翰·西尔伯延揽知名学者，其中埃利·维瑟尔与德里克·沃尔科特随后不久便获得诺贝尔奖。

• In 2012 the university was invited to join the Association of American Universities as its 62nd member, and it launched a fundraising campaign that raised 1.85 billion dollars by 2019.2012 年，学校获邀以第 62 名成员身份加入美国大学协会，并启动筹款运动，到 2019 年共募集 18.5 亿美元。

• The Wheelock College of Education and Human Development joined the university in 2018 through the merger with Wheelock College, becoming the Fenway campus.2018 年，惠洛克教育与人类发展学院随惠洛克学院并入，成为学校的芬威校区。

• In 2024 Melissa L. Gilliam became the university's 11th president, and the medical school had been renamed the Aram V. Chobanian and Edward Avedisian School of Medicine in 2022.2024 年梅利莎·吉利厄姆出任学校第 11 任校长，医学院则已于 2022 年更名为阿拉姆·乔巴尼安与爱德华·阿维迪西安医学院。

Academics

• The university offers bachelor's, master's, doctoral, medical, dental and law degrees through 17 schools and colleges on three urban campuses.学校在三个城市校区内通过 17 个学院授予学士、硕士、博士及医学、牙科与法学学位。

• Its schools include the College of Arts and Sciences, the Questrom School of Business, the College of Engineering, the College of Communication, the School of Law, the Chobanian and Avedisian School of Medicine and the School of Public Health.其学院包括文理学院、奎斯特罗姆商学院、工程学院、传播学院、法学院、乔巴尼安与阿维迪西安医学院以及公共卫生学院。

• The Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies, founded in 2014, is its newest school, and the Kilachand Honors College admitted its first class in 2010.2014 年成立的弗雷德里克·帕迪全球研究学院是最新的学院，基拉昌德荣誉学院则于 2010 年招收首批学生。

• In fall 2025 the university had 38,093 students and 3,412 full-time faculty, with students drawn from more than 140 countries.2025 年秋季学校有学生 38093 人、专任教师 3412 人，学生来自 140 多个国家。

• Admission is highly selective, with an admit rate of 11.1 percent for the 2024 entering class, when 78,769 students applied and 8,743 were admitted.学校录取竞争激烈，2024 级录取率为 11.1%，当年共有 78769 人申请、8743 人获录。

• The university's affordableBU programme, expanded in 2019, meets the full demonstrated financial need of all domestic students.学校 2019 年扩大的「可负担的波士顿大学」项目，全额满足所有本国学生的经济需要。

• In 2024 the university reported 579.5 million dollars in research awards, and in the 2023 fiscal year it ranked 16th among United States private institutions for research spending.2024 年学校科研经费达 5.795 亿美元，2023 财年其科研支出在全美私立高校中位列第 16。

• Its research focuses on data science, engineering biology, global health, infectious diseases, neuroscience, photonics and urban health.学校研究集中于数据科学、工程生物学、全球健康、传染病、神经科学、光子学与城市健康。

• The National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories operate biosafety level 2, 3 and 4 facilities, and during the COVID-19 pandemic were the only New England laboratory working with live coronavirus samples.国家新发传染病实验室设有二级、三级与四级生物安全设施，新冠疫情期间是新英格兰唯一处理活体冠状病毒样本的实验室。

• The School of Law leads CARB-X, a trans-Atlantic public-private partnership launched with 350 million dollars to develop new antibiotics.法学院主导 CARB-X 项目，这一跨大西洋公私合作计划以 3.5 亿美元启动，用于研发新型抗生素。

• In 2020 the university founded the Center for Antiracist Research, and in 2025 its LEXI X-ray telescope landed on the Moon aboard a NASA lander, a first for the university.2020 年学校成立反种族主义研究中心，2025 年其 LEXI 射线望远镜随美国航天局的着陆器登上月球，为学校首例。

• The university runs Boston University Academy, a high school on campus founded in 1993 where students may take university courses.学校设有波士顿大学附中，1993 年创办于校园内，学生可选修大学课程。

• The BU Hub, the university-wide core curriculum, requires courses developing capacities such as scientific and social inquiry, quantitative reasoning and written communication.全校性的核心课程「BU Hub」要求学生修读培养科学与社会探究、定量推理及书面表达等能力的课程。

• The university hosts nationally recognised law journals and the Journal of Education, the oldest continuously published journal in its field in the United States.学校出版多种全国性法学刊物，以及《教育杂志》，后者是美国该领域持续出版最久的期刊。

• Boston University is accredited by the New England Commission of Higher Education and is classified among R1 doctoral universities with very high research activity.学校获新英格兰高等教育委员会认证，被列为研究活动极高的 R1 级博士型大学。

• Its main research funders include the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health and the United States Department of Defense.其主要科研资助方包括美国国家科学基金会、国立卫生研究院与美国国防部。

Campus

• The main Charles River Campus follows Commonwealth Avenue along the Green Line, from near Kenmore Square for more than a mile and a half towards the Allston neighbourhood.主校区「查尔斯河校区」沿联邦大道展开，紧邻绿线，从肯莫尔广场附近一直延伸到奥尔斯顿街区，绵延一英里半有余。

• The university's 169 acres are divided among three urban campuses, with the medical campus in the South End and the Fenway campus at the former Wheelock College.学校占地 169 英亩，分属三个城市校区，医学院校区位于南端，芬威校区则在原惠洛克学院址。

• A strip of grass between the academic buildings and the busy Storrow Drive is nicknamed the BU Beach, a favourite spot for sunbathing in good weather.教学楼与车流繁忙的斯托罗车道之间的一条草地被戏称为「BU 海滩」，天气晴好时是学生晒太阳的好去处。

• Marsh Chapel and the Gothic-revival College of Arts and Sciences buildings of the late 1930s are among the university's most recognisable structures.马什教堂与二十世纪三十年代末建成的哥特复兴风格文理学院建筑，是学校最具辨识度的建筑之列。

• Buildings of the 1960s to 1980s, including the Mugar Memorial Library, the Law Tower and Warren Towers, were built in the Brutalist style.二十世纪六十至八十年代的建筑，包括穆加纪念图书馆、法学楼与沃伦塔楼，都采用粗野主义风格。

• The 19-storey Center for Computing and Data Sciences, opened in December 2022, is described as the largest carbon-neutral building in Boston.2022 年 12 月启用的十九层计算与数据科学中心，被称为波士顿最大的碳中和建筑。

• The Mugar Memorial Library is the central library and houses the Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center, holding papers of eminent figures in literature, journalism and the arts.穆加纪念图书馆是中央图书馆，内设霍华德·戈特利布档案研究中心，收藏文学、新闻与艺术界名人的文献。

• The university's housing system is the tenth largest among four-year colleges in the country and guarantees on-campus housing for four years to undergraduates.学校住宿体系在全美四年制高校中规模第十，并为本科生保证四年校内住宿。

• Warren Towers houses 1,800 students, while the 26-storey StuVi2 building on Harry Agganis Way accommodates 960 residents in apartments and suites.沃伦塔楼可住 1800 名学生，而哈里·阿加尼斯路上的二十六层斯图维二号楼以公寓与套间形式容纳 960 人。

• The Agganis Arena, opened in January 2005 with 6,224 seats, hosts ice hockey games as well as concerts, and the FitRec Center opened nearby the same year.阿加尼斯体育馆于 2005 年 1 月启用，设 6224 个座位，既办冰球赛也办演唱会，健身与休闲中心同年在其附近开放。

• BU Castle, built in 1915 on Bay State Road, once served as the president's residence and now houses the Dahod Family Alumni Center.建于 1915 年的 BU 城堡位于湾州路，曾作校长官邸，现为达霍德家族校友中心。

Reputation

• Boston University ranks 94th in the 2027 QS World University Rankings, 86th in the 2027 Times Higher Education World University Rankings and 96th in the 2026-2027 US News Best Global Universities.波士顿大学在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中位列第 94，2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名第 86，2026 至 2027 年度美国新闻全球最佳大学排名第 96。^[1]

• In the United States, US News ranks it tied for 34th among national universities and 26th in Best Value Schools.在美国国内，《美国新闻与世界报道》将其列为全国性大学并列第 34，并在「最具价值院校」中位列第 26。

• In 2026 Times Higher Education placed it 34th in the world in the Global University Employability Rankings.2026 年泰晤士高等教育全球大学就业力排名中，该校位列世界第 34。

• US News ranks its occupational therapy programme 1st, public health 9th and social work 12th nationally, and its law school 24th.《美国新闻与世界报道》将其职业治疗项目列全美第 1、公共卫生第 9、社会工作第 12，法学院列第 24。

• According to OpenAlex the university has produced 224,471 works cited 28,201,395 times.据 OpenAlex 统计，学校累计发表论著 224471 篇，被引用 28201395 次。

• Nine Nobel laureates have been associated with the university as alumni, faculty or researchers, including Martin Luther King Jr. and Elie Wiesel.共有九位诺贝尔奖得主曾以校友、教师或研究者身份与学校相关，其中包括马丁·路德·金与埃利·维瑟尔。

• Its community also includes 23 Pulitzer Prize winners, 14 Academy Award winners, ten Rhodes Scholars and six Marshall Scholars.其校友与师生中还有 23 位普利策奖得主、14 位奥斯卡奖得主、10 位罗德学者与 6 位马歇尔学者。

• The university is one of 146 American institutions with the highest Carnegie research classification and became a member of the Association of American Universities in 2012.学校是美国获卡内基最高研究等级分类的 146 所高校之一，并于 2012 年成为美国大学协会成员。

• Times Higher Education ranked its Master of Business Administration and business programmes among the strongest in the region, and its School of Social Work sixth in the nation for research productivity in 2016.泰晤士高等教育将其工商管理硕士与商科项目列为该地区最强之列，其社会工作学院 2016 年科研产出位居全美第六。

• In its own city Boston University competes with Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, both across the Charles River in Cambridge.在波士顿本地，波士顿大学与同在查尔斯河对岸剑桥市的哈佛大学和麻省理工学院相竞争。

Student life

• The university motto is Learning, Virtue, Piety.学校校训为「学习、美德、敬虔」。

• The colours are scarlet and white, and the mascot is Rhett the Boston Terrier, a name said to play on the characters Rhett Butler and Scarlett O'Hara.学校代表色为大红与白色，吉祥物是波士顿梗犬「瑞德」，据称其名取自小说人物瑞德·巴特勒与斯嘉丽·奥哈拉的谐趣组合。

• The independent student newspaper The Daily Free Press, known as the FreeP, has served the campus since 1970 and is the fourth largest daily newspaper in Boston.独立学生报纸《每日自由新闻》俗称 FreeP，自 1970 年起服务校园，是波士顿第四大日报。

• The literary magazine Clarion has been printed since 1998, and Burn Magazine publishes work by student authors.文学杂志《号角》自 1998 年起出版，《燃烧》杂志则刊载学生作者的作品。

• Boston University is one of twenty-five American universities hosting all three Reserve Officer Training Corps programmes for the Army, Navy and Air Force.波士顿大学是全美二十五所同时开设陆军、海军与空军三个后备军官训练团的大学之一。

• The men's ice hockey team is its most successful, with five NCAA championships, most recently in 2009, and 32 Beanpot titles, more than any other team.男子冰球队是学校最成功的队伍，曾五次夺得美国大学体育协会冠军，最近一次为 2009 年，并三十二次夺得「豆锅赛」冠军，冠绝参赛各校。

• The women's rowing team won national championships in 1991 and 1992, and the women's tennis team holds 28 conference titles.女子赛艇队于 1991 年与 1992 年两夺全国冠军，女子网球队则握有 28 个联盟冠军。

• The university disbanded its football team in 1997 and used the funds to build the John Hancock Student Village and expand women's athletics.学校于 1997 年解散橄榄球队，把相关经费用来建设约翰·汉考克学生村并扩大女子体育项目。

• Thirty-four club sports are recognised, ranging from sailing, which has won seven national championships, to figure skating, which has won seven national titles and is the most decorated in its sport.学校认可三十四个体育社团，从七夺全国冠军的帆船队，到七次夺冠、在同项目中荣誉最多的花样滑冰队，不一而足。

Notable people

• Isaac Rich, Lee Claflin and Jacob Sleeper, the three trustees who obtained the university charter in 1869, are its founders, and its West Campus halls are named after them.1869 年为学校取得特许状的三位校董艾萨克·里奇、李·克拉弗林与雅各布·斯利珀是学校的创办人，其西校区宿舍即以他们命名。

• Alexander Graham Bell, a professor at the university in the 1870s, invented the telephone in one of its laboratories in 1875.十九世纪七十年代在该校任教的亚历山大·格拉汉姆·贝尔，于 1875 年在校内一间实验室发明了电话。

• Martin Luther King Jr., who received his doctorate in systematic theology from the university in 1955, shared the 1964 Nobel Peace Prize.1955 年在该校取得系统神学博士学位的马丁·路德·金，于 1964 年分享诺贝尔和平奖。

• Elie Wiesel, a Nobel Peace laureate of 1986 and a Holocaust survivor, and Derek Walcott, who won the 1992 Nobel Prize in Literature, both taught at the university.1986 年诺贝尔和平奖得主、大屠杀幸存者埃利·维瑟尔与 1992 年诺贝尔文学奖得主德里克·沃尔科特，都曾在该校任教。

• The novelist Saul Bellow, who won the 1976 Nobel Prize in Literature, and the physicist Sheldon Glashow, who shared the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physics, were also recruited to its faculty.1976 年诺贝尔文学奖得主、小说家索尔·贝娄与分享 1979 年诺贝尔物理学奖的物理学家谢尔登·格拉肖，也曾被延揽至该校任教。

• Helen Magill White, who earned a doctorate in classics in 1877, was the first woman to receive a PhD from an American university.1877 年取得古典学博士的海伦·马吉尔·怀特，是美国首位获得博士学位的女性。

• Solomon Carter Fuller, who graduated from the university's medical school in 1897, became the first black psychiatrist in the United States and contributed to early Alzheimer's research.1897 年毕业于该校医学院的所罗门·卡特·富勒成为美国首位黑人精神科医生，并对早期阿尔茨海默病研究有所贡献。

• The radio host Howard Stern graduated from the university in 1976, and the television host Bill O'Reilly earned a master's degree here.电台主持人霍华德·斯特恩于 1976 年毕业于此，电视主持人比尔·奥莱利也在此取得硕士学位。

• Rajen Kilachand, a businessman alumnus and one of the university's largest benefactors, gave 115 million dollars in 2017 to support life sciences and engineering research.商人校友拉金·基拉昌德是学校最大的捐助者之一，2017 年捐出 1.15 亿美元支持生命科学与工程研究。

• Timothy Leary carried out his Marsh Chapel Experiment, the Good Friday Experiment, in the university's chapel in 1962.蒂莫西·利里于 1962 年在学校教堂进行了著名的「马什教堂实验」，即「耶稣受难日实验」。