BU Ratings and Reviews
- 9/10 Overall Rating
- 4 Year
- Boston, MA
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3.4 11 reviews
BU Ratings and Reviews
Ratings
BU is rated within the top 16% of four-year colleges nationally and earns a CollegeSimply grade of 9 out of 10.
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Overall Rating9 out of 10
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Academics10 out of 10
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Resources10 out of 10
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Outcomes8 out of 10
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Value10 out of 10
Student Review Summary
3.4
11 student reviews
7 out of 11 (64%) reviewers rated 4 stars or higher
Students rate Campus Atmosphere highest and Housing lowest.
Rating snapshot
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5 stars
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4 stars
4
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3 stars
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2 stars
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1 star
3
Average by category
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Overall Rating3.4
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Academics4.1
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Value for Money3.0
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Professors / Faculty3.5
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Campus Atmosphere4.3
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Housing2.7
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Campus Safety3.6
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Student Life3.5
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Party and Bar Scene3.0
Student and Parent Reviews
If you are a student, former student, faculty member or parent, please help guide other prospective students by sharing your personal experiences at this college. What is it really like to go to Boston University?
Current Student
BU has an incredible psych program and top tier facilities for student researchers, with lab opportunities everywhere and chances to work with revered psychologists. Entry level classes are sometimes shallow, and there are a couple professors who are poor at teaching basic concepts. However, upper level and grad level psych courses are incredible and allow students to delve into contemporary and complex theory. BU is still overprices due to their HUB credit requirements, as outside of psych there are so many mediocre professors who teach interesting but useless information.
Current Student
The school is just too big for ppl who want to succeed in their own field. The faculty and staff are not helpful when it comes to supporting students with their difficulties. They won?t start an investigation even though there are multiple complaints towards the staff. And the Professor has bias towards each students.
Alumnus
This school is horrible. They do not really take of their students well unless they are from wealthy backgrounds. I was called poor, had a lot of racist comments made towards me and denied a lot of opportunities by wealthier students. The school is filled with ignorant staff members.
Current Student
Boston University has been such an amazing experience! Super awesome location, love the people there, and it's a great education.
Parent
Excellence school with some great professors, especially in CAS, Engineering, Questrom and Communications. MY son received two job offers upon graduation and now working for Amazon in Cambridge.
Alumnus
I graduated over 50 years ago and am still happy that BU was the start of my Music education. I was a performance major and had the best instructors one can imagine. Also spent summers at Tanglewood. Went on successfully both in music and business and attribute it partially to the experience of BU and the entire education scene.
Alumnus
Academically wasn't easy if you are aiming for a gpa of 3.7+. Profs are excellent. School was very expensive. Only have 4 years so make the most of it.
Current Student
College is what you make of it. Work hard.
Alumnus
It?s been a few years but here?s what I remember: - very international school; a lot of kids from all over the world. - campus being integrated into the city (not a lot of buildings that look like traditional school buildings) - many other schools nearby; active party scene - academics were rough; everything on an extreme curve. works both ways ? had some classes I barely scraped by on but received good grades because others did worse. - really lacked that stereotypical american college town thing that the media portrays. people took academics quite a bit more serious. - expensive. students tended to be from upper middle class to extremely wealthy.
Current Student
People are competitive but generally very nice, and the education is good. A lot of resources and opportunities offered. Dorms are a little too old. Food is alright. Grade deflation though; average grade is a B (GPA 3.0), think twice if you need your U-grad grade to go to grad school.
Current Student
The housing system is absolutely poor. They charge thousands of dollars and jampack multiple students in rooms only meant for one. They take old decrepid buildings, put a BU sign on it and that's it. No renovations or even safety measures have been made. Very disappointed.
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Last updated: August 2026