Boston University Top Questions

political involvement, community service, professionalism, highly educated teachers

The hockey team and a number of its professors.

large student body, urban campus, quality acedemics

i dont know

Size and location.

My school is best known for being extremely liberal, and also the fact that Martin Luther King Jr. graduated from here, as well as the first woman to get a master's degree.

BU is a selective university that focuses on academics. There are plenty of student activites and sports at all levels, but nobody encourages you to join. You have to take initiative to get the best of this school, because its too big to be keeping track and encouraging everybody. The size does help in terms of variety of courses and things to do. Its not terribly unified in terms of student life (no football) but you can choose to involve yourself as much or as little as you want because its size provides that option.

BU's undergraduate program is notoriously scrappy for getting students jobs, especially in certain fields (media, management, medicine, performance arts). The student experience is near parity as far as hard-working/wild-partying with the Ivy Leagues across the river, which makes it sort of a bargain considering the friendly admission rates and better-than-average level of needs-based aid.

Our school is best known for it's international diversity. There are many interational students from all over the world in all of my classes and they add a lot to the culture and learning of the courses. Of course our school is also known for it's hockey program which is one of the top hockey programs in the nation.

For its ice hockey team and its diversity as well as its prestige and world accreditation.