Editing Boston University (section)

== Student life ==
{| class="wikitable floatright sortable collapsible"; text-align:right; font-size:80%;"
|+ style="font-size:90%" |Student body composition as of January 23, 2025
|-
! Race and ethnicity<ref>{{Cite web |title=College Scorecard: Boston University |url=https://collegescorecard.ed.gov/school/?164988-Boston-Universityn |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220630214409/https://collegescorecard.ed.gov/school/?164988-Boston-Universityn |archive-date=June 30, 2022 |access-date=May 8, 2022 |publisher=[[United States Department of Education]]}}</ref>
! colspan="2" data-sort-type=number |Total
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| [[White|Non-Hispanic whites]]
|align=right| {{bartable|33|%|2|| background:gray}}
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| [[Foreign national]]
|align=right| {{bartable|23|%|2|| background:orange}}
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| [[Asian Americans|Asian]]
|align=right| {{bartable|20|%|2|| background:purple}}
|-
| [[Hispanic and Latino Americans|Hispanic]]
|align=right| {{bartable|11|%|2|| background:green}}
|-
| Other{{efn|Other consists of [[Multiracial Americans]] & those who prefer to not say.}}
|align=right| {{bartable|9|%|2|| background:brown}}
|-
| [[African Americans|Black]]
|align=right| {{bartable|5|%|2|| background:mediumblue}}
|-
! colspan="4" data-sort-type=number | [[Economic diversity]]
|-
| [[American lower class|Low-income]]{{efn|The percentage of students who received an income-based federal [[Pell grant]] intended for low-income students.}}
|align=right| {{bartable|18|%|2|| background:red}}
|-
| [[Affluence in the United States|Affluent]]{{efn|The percentage of students who are a part of the [[American middle class]] at the bare minimum.}}
|align=right| {{bartable|82|%|2|| background:black}}
|}

===Student publications===
Independent from the university, ''[[Daily Free Press|The Daily Free Press]]'', often referred to as ''The FreeP'', is the campus student newspaper and the fourth largest daily newspaper in Boston. Since 1970, it has provided students with campus news, city and state news, sports coverage, editorials, arts and entertainment, and special feature stories. ''The Daily Free Press'' is published every regular instruction day of the university year and is available in BU dorms, classroom buildings, and commercial locations frequented by students.

The literary magazine ''[[Clarion (magazine)|Clarion]]'' has been printed since 1998. The first issue, titled "?", was published by the group Students for Literary Awareness with the sponsorship of the Department of English; subsequent issues were issued by the BU Literary Society, and most recently, by the BU BookLab. ''Burn Magazine'' is a younger literary magazine, affiliated with ''Clarion'', but publishing the work of student authors only.

===ROTC===
The [[Reserve Officer Training Corps]] (ROTC) at BU traces its origins back to August 16, 1919, when the US War Department stood up the Students' Army Training Corps at Boston University, the predecessor to the current Army ROTC program.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Boston University – Division of Military Education |url=http://www.bu.edu/dme/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090701235516/http://www.bu.edu/dme/ |archive-date=July 1, 2009 |access-date=October 4, 2013 |publisher=Boston University}}</ref> Today, BU is one of twenty five colleges and universities in the country to host all three ROTC programs – Army, Navy, and Air Force. Students wishing to be commissioned into the Marine Corps study as Navy Midshipmen.

===Honor societies===
[[Alpha Phi Sigma]] – Nu Mu chapter