{"name":"Boston University","slug":"boston-university-2ef76bea","url":"https://collegestat.britexstudy-15d.workers.dev/university/boston-university-2ef76bea","country":"United States","country_code":"US","city":"Boston","type":"Private","founded":1839,"website":"http://www.bu.edu/","summary":"Boston University began in 1839 as the Newbury Biblical Institute, a Methodist seminary in Vermont. It moved to Concord, New Hampshire, in 1847 and to Boston in 1867, and it was chartered as Boston University in 1869. Alexander Graham Bell taught there while developing the telephone, and in 1877 Helen Magill White earned the first PhD awarded to a woman by an American university at BU.","key_facts":[{"id":"rank","value":"#94","detail":"QS 2027","source":"https://insights.qs.com/hubfs/Rankings%20Excel%20Reports/2027%20QS%20World%20University%20Rankings%201.1%20%28For%20qs.com%29.xlsx"},{"id":"tuition","value":"$63,798","detail":"per year, 2023"},{"id":"admission","value":"11.1%","detail":"2024"}],"sources":[{"label":"rank","url":"https://insights.qs.com/hubfs/Rankings%20Excel%20Reports/2027%20QS%20World%20University%20Rankings%201.1%20%28For%20qs.com%29.xlsx"},{"label":"Official website","url":"http://www.bu.edu/"},{"label":"Admissions","url":"https://www.bu.edu/admissions"},{"label":"Financial aid","url":"https://www.bu.edu/finaid"},{"label":"Reference","url":"https://nces.ed.gov/ipeds/complete-data-files/HD2025.zip"},{"label":"Official: 38,093 students (FY2025), 9,500+ international","url":"https://www.bu.edu/about/dna/"},{"label":"1839 founding, predecessor names, 1869 charter, Bell, first woman PhD (Wikipedia cross-check)","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_University"}],"note":"Figures are as reported by the linked sources; confirm requirements with the university before applying."}