Boston University

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Boston University - private research university in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. This university is the 53^rd most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of universities and the 47^th most popular university in English Wikipedia and the 134^th most popular website in English Wikipedia. Article “Boston University” in English Wikipedia has 88.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 269 references and 31 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 4.65 points.

This article has the best quality in Spanish Wikipedia. However, this article is the most popular in English version.

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

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The 7892^nd most editable in English Wikipedia.

The 47^th most popular in universities in English Wikipedia.

The 134^th most popular in websites in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 53^rd most popular in universities.

The 175^th most popular in websites.

In June 2026 the article “Boston University” was edited by 7 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 12 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Boston University”, its content was written by 944 registered users of English Wikipedia (7892^nd place) and edited by 1799 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Boston University is on the 47^th place in local ranking of universities in English Wikipedia and on the 53^rd place in global ranking of universities in all the time.

Boston University is on the 134^th place in local ranking of websites in English Wikipedia and on the 175^th place in global ranking of websites in all the time.

The article is cited 7601 times in English Wikipedia (2802^nd place) and cited 20856 times in all languages (8260^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #423 in June 2003
• Global: #2312 in June 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #3886 in January 2011
• Global: #9437 in January 2011

There are 46 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2026 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	Spanish (es) Universidad de Boston		93.71
2	English (en) Boston University		88.3586
3	Greek (el) Πανεπιστήμιο της Βοστώνης		79.9687
4	Uzbek (uz) Boston universiteti		69.3829
5	Chinese (zh) 波士頓大學		53.1568
6	Korean (ko) 보스턴 대학교		51.1442
7	Armenian (hy) Բոստոնի համալսարան		42.5234
8	Esperanto (eo) Universitato de Bostono		41.0104
9	Ukrainian (uk) Бостонський університет		40.4964
10	Indonesian (id) Universitas Boston		39.6718

The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Boston University		8 535 453
2	Japanese (ja) ボストン大学		531 692
3	Chinese (zh) 波士頓大學		509 785
4	Spanish (es) Universidad de Boston		254 475
5	Russian (ru) Бостонский университет		212 874
6	German (de) Boston University		208 002
7	French (fr) Université de Boston		188 385
8	Korean (ko) 보스턴 대학교		127 182
9	Italian (it) Università di Boston		108 517
10	Arabic (ar) جامعة بوسطن		89 963

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Boston University		23 686
2	Chinese (zh) 波士頓大學		1 765
3	Spanish (es) Universidad de Boston		1 550
4	Japanese (ja) ボストン大学		1 452
5	Turkish (tr) Boston Üniversitesi		976
6	Russian (ru) Бостонский университет		510
7	German (de) Boston University		466
8	Hindi (hi) बोस्टन विश्वविद्यालय		430
9	French (fr) Université de Boston		413
10	Korean (ko) 보스턴 대학교		283

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Boston University		944
2	German (de) Boston University		93
3	French (fr) Université de Boston		79
4	Chinese (zh) 波士頓大學		59
5	Japanese (ja) ボストン大学		57
6	Russian (ru) Бостонский университет		55
7	Hebrew (he) אוניברסיטת בוסטון		46
8	Spanish (es) Universidad de Boston		41
9	Italian (it) Università di Boston		39
10	Korean (ko) 보스턴 대학교		37

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Boston University		7
2	Arabic (ar) جامعة بوسطن		1
3	German (de) Boston University		1
4	Hebrew (he) אוניברסיטת בוסטון		1
5	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Univerzitet u Bostonu		1
6	Turkish (tr) Boston Üniversitesi		1
7	Azerbaijani (az) Boston Universiteti		0
8	Belarusian (be) Бостанскі ўніверсітэт		0
9	Bulgarian (bg) Бостънски университет		0
10	Catalan (ca) Universitat de Boston		0

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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