Boston University

Quality:

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 167^th most popular university in Simple English Wikipedia and the 344^th most popular website in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “Boston University” in Simple English Wikipedia has 22.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 4 references and 1 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Simple English Wikipedia:

The 167^th most popular in universities in Simple English Wikipedia.

The 344^th most popular in websites in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 53^rd most popular in universities.

The 175^th most popular in websites.

Since the creation of article “Boston University”, its content was written by 15 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 1799 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Boston University is on the 167^th place in local ranking of universities in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 53^rd place in global ranking of universities in all the time.

Boston University is on the 344^th place in local ranking of websites in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 175^th place in global ranking of websites in all the time.

The article is cited 140 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 20856 times in all languages (8260^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #909 in February 2014
• Global: #2312 in June 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #13752 in June 2021
• 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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