BU

BU, Bu and variations may refer to:

In business

• Business unit, a division within a company, as in strategic business unit
• Braathens ASA (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
• $\mathrm{BU}(n)$, Classifying space for unitary group
• $\mathrm{BU}$, 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

See also

• Buu (disambiguation)