2025 Wall Street Journal/College Pulse U.S. colleges and universities ranking.
QS World University Rankings ranked Boston University 108th overall in the world in its 2025 rankings.
Times Higher Education ranked Boston University 75th in the world for 2025.
Times Higher Education ranked Boston University 34th in the 2024–25 Global University Employability Rankings.
The Academic Ranking of World Universities ranks Boston University 39–50 in the United States, and 101–150 in the world, in its 2024 list.
In 2016, the Chronicle of Higher Education placed the Boston University School of Social Work as sixth in the nation for research productivity by faculty.
BU is one of 146 American universities receiving the highest research classification ("RU/VH") by the Carnegie Foundation.
=== Research ===
In 2024, the university reported in $579.5M million in total research awards, and in fiscal year 2023 it ranked 16th in the U.S. among private institutions for all research and development expenditures. Funding sources …
