University · Chestnut Hill, United States

Boston College

Private research university in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, United States

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academic calendar type
admission rate
  • 0.26 point in time: 2020
admission yield rate
  • 0.31 point in time: 2020
API endpoint URL
athletics program
Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education
category for alumni of educational institution
child organization or unit
Commons category
  • Boston College
coordinate location
  • 42.3351, -71.1704
count of students
  • 14,395
  • 14,180 applies to part: full-time equivalent; point in time: 1 September 2021
country
described by source
different from
employees
  • 3,800
endowment
  • 2,579,462,416 United States dollar point in time: 30 June 2020
  • 3,336,600,000 United States dollar point in time: 30 June 2022
  • 3,827,100,000 United States dollar point in time: 30 June 2021
founder
headquarters location
  • Chestnut Hill country: United States; postal code: 02467; coordinate location: 42.3380, -71.1711; street address: 140 Commonwealth Ave
image
inception
  • 1863
industry
instance of
language used
located in the administrative territorial entity
logo image
member of
native label
  • Boston College
official name
  • Boston College
official website
on focus list of Wikimedia project
owner of
position held by head of the organization
postal code
  • 02467
ranking
  • 494 determination method or standard: QS World University Rankings; point in time: 2022
  • 329 determination method or standard: QS World University Rankings; point in time: 2012
  • 331 determination method or standard: QS World University Rankings; point in time: 2014
  • 341 determination method or standard: QS World University Rankings; point in time: 2015
  • 282 determination method or standard: QS World University Rankings; point in time: 2016
  • 299 determination method or standard: QS World University Rankings; point in time: 2017
  • 339 determination method or standard: QS World University Rankings; point in time: 2018
  • 376 determination method or standard: QS World University Rankings; point in time: 2019
  • 432 determination method or standard: QS World University Rankings; point in time: 2020
  • 454 determination method or standard: QS World University Rankings; point in time: 2021
religion or worldview
social media followers
  • 71,778 point in time: 4 January 2021; X (Twitter) numeric user ID: 16582975
  • 70,258 point in time: 19 April 2020; X (Twitter) numeric user ID: 16582975
  • 74,523 point in time: 27 February 2022; X (Twitter) numeric user ID: 16582975
  • 77,504 point in time: 9 February 2023; X (Twitter) numeric user ID: 16582975
  • 23,400 point in time: 27 September 2025; YouTube channel ID: UCxpYJz5B6tkK6RNV8JOd43g
street address
  • 140 Commonwealth Avenue, Chestnut Hill, MA, 02467
topic's main category
total assets
  • 5,201,272,270 United States dollar point in time: 30 June 2020

Identifiers in other databases

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ARWU university ID
Bibliothèque nationale de France ID
  • 124054849 subject named as: Boston college; alternative name: Boston college (Chestnut Hill, Mass., USA)
Canadiana Name Authority ID
Crunchbase organization ID
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Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
Facebook username
FactGrid item ID
FAST ID
  • 540787 subject named as: Boston College; alternative name: Boston College, Boston, Mass.
Freebase ID
GeoNames ID
GND ID
  • 40300-3 subject named as: Boston College; alternative name: Boston College (Chestnut Hill, Mass.); alternative name: BC
Google Maps Customer ID
Google Scholar organization ID
GRID ID
IdRef ID
Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System ID
ISIL
ISNI
J9U entity ID
Japan Search name ID
Kalliope-Verbund (GND) ID
KISTI ID
Legal Entity Identifier
Libraries Australia ID
  • 36529695 subject named as: Boston College
Library of Congress Authorities ID
  • n80010166 subject named as: Boston College; alternative name: Boston College, Boston, Mass.
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LinkedIn company or organization ID
Microsoft Academic ID (discontinued)
MusicBrainz place ID
National Library of Ireland ID
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National Library of Poland MMS ID
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NL CR AUT ID
NLA Trove people ID
  • 1275136 subject named as: Boston College
NUKAT ID
  • n2022040780 subject named as: Boston College; alternative name: BC; alternative name: Boston College, Boston, Mass.
Open Funder Registry funder ID
OpenAlex ID
OpenStreetMap relation ID
PermID
QS World University ID
Quora topic ID
RERO ID (legacy)
Ringgold ID
ROR ID
Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts name ID
SEVIS school ID
SNARC ID
subreddit
TikTok username
Times Higher Education World University ID
U-Multirank university ID
UK Parliament thesaurus ID
  • 512315 subject named as: Boston College
Vatican Library VcBA ID
VIAF cluster ID
World Higher Education Database ID
X (Twitter) username
  • bostoncollege start time: 3 October 2008; point in time: 19 April 2020; has characteristic: verified account or profile; number of subscribers: 70,258; X (Twitter) numeric user ID: 16582975
  • BostonCollege
YouTube channel ID
  • UCxpYJz5B6tkK6RNV8JOd43g start time: 19 September 2006; point in time: 21 September 2025; subject named as: Boston College; number of works: 1,033; number of subscribers: 23,300; number of viewers/listeners: 10,451,542
Zhihu topic ID
  • 19800512 subject named as: 波士顿学院 (Boston College)
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