Boston University is a private research university in Boston, Massachusetts. A group of Boston Methodists founded it in 1839 with its original campus in Newbury, Vermont, and it was chartered in Boston in 1869. It is a member of the Association of American Universities and the Boston Consortium for Higher Education. With nearly 38,000 students and more than 4,000 faculty members it is one of the largest employers in Boston. It offers bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees and medical, dental, business and law degrees through seventeen schools and colleges on three urban campuses. It is nonsectarian but keeps a historical affiliation with the United Methodist Church.
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Boston University (BU) is a private research university in Boston, Massachusetts, United States.
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is a private research university
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"established": 1839
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He was a professor in the Department of Anthropology at Boston University, and previously held professorships at the University of Oslo, the University of Bergen (where he founded the Department of Social Anthropology), Emory University and Harvard University.
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