# BU

BU, Bu and variations may refer to:

## In business

* Business unit, a division within a company, as in strategic business unit
* Braathens (IATA airline designator)
* British United Shoe Machinery, Leicester UK
* Bücker Flugzeugbau, a German aircraft manufacturer whose planes were designated 'Bü'

## Places

* Bu, a hamlet on Wyre in the Orkney Islands, Scotland
* Bû, a settlement in France
* Bulgaria (WMO and LOC MARC country code)
* Burma (Myanmar) (former ISO3166-1 country code)

## In mathematics, science, and technology

* -Bu, a common shorthand for butyl, a functional group in organic chemistry
* $\operatorname {BU} (n)$, Classifying space for unitary group
* $\operatorname {BU}$, Classifying space for infinite unitary group
* Backup, in information technology
* Bethesda unit, a measure of inhibitor activity relating to a coagulation factor
* Billion Units, used in India to mean billion kilowatt-hours ie equal to one terawatt-hour (see Kilowatt-hour#Multiples)
* Biological unit, the smallest number of protein molecules which form a biologically active unit
* Brabender unit, a unit of flour analysis measured by a farinograph

## Units of measure

* bu, a Japanese unit of length, equivalent to 3.03 millimetres
* bù (步), a Chinese unit of length, equivalent to 1.66 metres
* Bushel, a unit of capacity

## Universities
### United States

* Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts
* Baker University, Baldwin City, Kansas
* Barry University, Miami Shores, Florida
* Baylor University, Waco, Texas
* Belhaven University, Jackson, Mississippi
* Bellarmine University, Louisville, Kentucky
* Bellevue University, Bellevue, Nebraska
* Belmont University, Nashville, Tennessee
* Bentley University, Waltham, Massachusetts
* Bethel University (Indiana), Mishawaka, Indiana
* Bethel University (Minnesota), Arden Hills, Minnesota
* Bethel University (Tennessee), McKenzie, Tennessee
* Bethesda University, Anaheim, California
* Binghamton University, Vestal, New York
* Biola University, La Mirada, California
* Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania
* Bluffton University, Bluffton, Ohio
* Bradley University, Peoria, Illinois
* Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts
* Brandman University, Irvine, California
* Brenau University, Gainesville, Georgia
* Brescia University, Owensboro, Kentucky
* Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island
* Bryant University, Smithfield, Rhode Island
* Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania
* Bushnell University, Eugene, Oregon
* Butler University, Indianapolis, Indiana

### United Kingdom

* Bangor University, north Wales
* Birmingham University or University of Birmingham, central England
* Bournemouth University, Dorset, England
* Brunel University, London, England

### Turkey

* Bilkent University, Ankara
* Boğaziçi University, Istanbul

### Bangladesh

* BRAC University, Bangladesh
* Barisal University, Bangladesh
* Bangladesh University, Mohammadpur, Dhaka, Bangladesh

### India

* Bangalore University, Bangalore, India
* Bhavnagar University, Gujarat, India
* Bundelkhand University, Jhansi, India
* Bharathiar University, Coimbatore, India
* Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirapalli, India

### Uganda

* Bugema University, a university in Uganda affiliated with the Seventh-day Adventist Church
* Busitema University, Tororo, Uganda
* Busoga University, Jinja, Uganda

### Other regions

* Benha University, Benha, Egypt
* Brandon University, Manitoba, Canada
* Bishop's University, Quebec, Canada
* Hong Kong Baptist University, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China
* Bahria University, Islamabad, Karachi and Lahore, Pakistan
* Bicol University, Albay, Philippines
* University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia
* Benadir University, Mogadishu, Somalia
* Bangkok University, Bangkok Metropolitan Region, Thailand
* Botho University, Gaborone, Botswana

## Other uses

* Art Blakey, nicknamed "Bu"
* Bu Yunchaokete, Chinese tennis player
* Bu language
* Bu (instrument), a traditional Korean musical instrument
* Bu (surname), a Chinese surname
* Brilliant Uncirculated, or Beautiful Uncirculated, in numismatic coin grading
* Builder (US Navy), a Seabee occupational rating in the U.S. Navy
* Bu, Kasih Suci or Bu, a 2019 Malaysian Malay-language family drama film