Boston University

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Boston University - private research university in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. This university is the 50^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of universities and the 48^th most popular university in English Wikipedia and the 139^th most popular website in English Wikipedia. Article “Boston University” in English Wikipedia has 83.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 302 references and 35 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 9.29 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 7879^th most editable in English Wikipedia.

The 48^th most popular in universities in English Wikipedia.

The 139^th most popular in websites in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 50^th most popular in universities.

The 177^th most popular in websites.

In June 2025 the article “Boston University” was edited by 7 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 15 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Boston University”, its content was written by 920 registered users of English Wikipedia (7879^th place) and edited by 1765 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Boston University is on the 48^th place in local ranking of universities in English Wikipedia and on the 50^th place in global ranking of universities in all the time.

Boston University is on the 139^th place in local ranking of websites in English Wikipedia and on the 177^th place in global ranking of websites in all the time.

The article is cited 7290 times in English Wikipedia (2850^th place) and cited 19401 times in all languages (8573^rd place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #424 in June 2003
• Global: #2312 in June 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #3872 in January 2011
• Global: #9413 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, 2025 (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		93.6159
2	English (en) Boston University		83.5666
3	Greek (el) Πανεπιστήμιο της Βοστώνης		79.3233
4	Uzbek (uz) Boston universiteti		69.3738
5	Chinese (zh) 波士頓大學		53.227
6	Korean (ko) 보스턴 대학교		50.9943
7	Indonesian (id) Universitas Boston		44.4938
8	Armenian (hy) Բոստոնի համալսարան		42.5502
9	Esperanto (eo) Universitato de Bostono		41.3272
10	German (de) Boston University		41.0926

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Boston University		8 194 155
2	Japanese (ja) ボストン大学		513 661
3	Chinese (zh) 波士頓大學		488 543
4	Spanish (es) Universidad de Boston		243 474
5	German (de) Boston University		201 505
6	Russian (ru) Бостонский университет		192 899
7	French (fr) Université de Boston		181 771
8	Korean (ko) 보스턴 대학교		123 023
9	Italian (it) Università di Boston		104 951
10	Arabic (ar) جامعة بوسطن		87 234

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		31 277
2	Chinese (zh) 波士頓大學		2 034
3	Japanese (ja) ボストン大学		1 639
4	Spanish (es) Universidad de Boston		891
5	Russian (ru) Бостонский университет		685
6	German (de) Boston University		552
7	French (fr) Université de Boston		515
8	Indonesian (id) Universitas Boston		439
9	Arabic (ar) جامعة بوسطن		301
10	Italian (it) Università di Boston		297

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		920
2	German (de) Boston University		89
3	French (fr) Université de Boston		79
4	Chinese (zh) 波士頓大學		57
5	Japanese (ja) ボストン大学		55
6	Russian (ru) Бостонский университет		54
7	Hebrew (he) אוניברסיטת בוסטון		45
8	Italian (it) Università di Boston		39
9	Korean (ko) 보스턴 대학교		36
10	Spanish (es) Universidad de Boston		34

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		2
3	French (fr) Université de Boston		2
4	German (de) Boston University		1
5	Hebrew (he) אוניברסיטת בוסטון		1
6	Japanese (ja) ボストン大学		1
7	Chinese (zh) 波士頓大學		1
8	Azerbaijani (az) Boston Universiteti		0
9	Belarusian (be) Бостанскі ўніверсітэт		0
10	Bulgarian (bg) Бостънски университет		0

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

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