The University maintains an off-campus housing listing. There are approximately 11,000 graduate students at Boston University. Enrollment at the School for the Arts is 1,000 students, of whom 375 are graduate students. School for the Arts graduate students come from twenty-seven countries and all fifty states. Location Most of the University's schools and colleges line the south bank of the Charles River just west of downtown Boston.
Students have at their disposal the exceptionally rich cultural resources of the Boston area.
The University and The School Boston University is an internationally recognized institution of higher education and research, founded in 1839. Through its fifteen schools and colleges, thirteen of which offer advanced degrees, the University serves approximately 29,500 students and 3,000 faculty members. The purpose of the School for the Arts, founded in 1954, is to prepare its students for professional work in music, the theater, or visual arts. The Muir String Quartet and the Atlantic Brass Quintet are in residence at the School for the Arts, Music Division, and the Huntington Theatre Company is in residence at the University. The Boston University School for the Arts also runs the Tanglewood Institute in Lenox, Massachusetts.