BU Facts and Figures

ACADEMIC PROFILE

• Small, residential, undergraduate university
• Over 100 majors offered within 5 academic divisions
  • Williams School of Business
  • School of Education
  • Division of Humanities
  • Division of Social Sciences
  • Division of Natural Sciences & Mathematics
• Language of instruction: English
• Average class size: 23
• Student to faculty ratio: 14:1

ENROLMENT PROFILE

• Full-time undergraduate: 1,740
• Part-time undergraduate: 523
• Total undergraduate: 2,263

By Academic Division

• Business: 383
• Education: 245
• Humanities: 386
• Social Sciences: 412
• Natural Sciences & Mathematics: 188
• Undeclared: 126

By Gender

• Female: 972
• Male: 768

Geographic Distribution

• Quebec: 41%
• Rest of Canada: 47%
• International: 12%

Students enrolled from all Canadian provinces and territories, 20 states (US), and 40 countries world-wide

Applications for 2009 were up 12% over 2008
Average entering student in 2009 had an 83% average

FIRST YEAR CLASS SIZES

• 100 + 0
• 71-90 3%
• 51-70 13%
• 31-50 23%
• fewer than 30 60%