Boston College (BC) is a
private Jesuit
research university
A research university or a research-intensive university is a university that is committed to research as a central part of its mission. They are the most important sites at which knowledge production occurs, along with "intergenerational kno ...
in
Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts
Chestnut Hill is an affluent New England village located west of downtown Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Like all Massachusetts villages, Chestnut Hill is located within one or more incorporated municipal entities. It is located partia ...
. Founded in 1863, the university has more than 9,300 full-time undergraduates and nearly 5,000 graduate students. Although Boston College is
classified as an
R1 research university, it still uses the word "college" in its name to reflect its historical position as a small liberal arts college. Its
main campus is a historic district and features some of the earliest examples of
collegiate gothic
Collegiate Gothic is an architectural style subgenre of Gothic Revival architecture, popular in the late-19th and early-20th centuries for college and high school buildings in the United States and Canada, and to a certain extent Europ ...
architecture in
North America
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. In accordance with its
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heritage, the university offers a liberal arts curriculum with a distinct emphasis on formative education and service to others.
Boston College is ranked among the top universities in the United States and undergraduate admission is highly selective. The university offers
bachelor's degrees,
master's degrees
A master's degree (from Latin ) is an academic degree awarded by universities or colleges upon completion of a course of study demonstrating mastery or a high-order overview of a specific field of study or area of professional practice. , and
doctoral degrees
A doctorate (from Latin ''docere'', "to teach"), doctor's degree (from Latin ''doctor'', "teacher"), or doctoral degree is an academic degree awarded by universities and some other educational institutions, derived from the ancient formalism ''li ...
through its eight colleges and schools:
Morrissey College of Arts & Sciences,
Carroll School of Management,
Lynch School of Education and Human Development,
Connell School of Nursing,
Graduate School of Social Work,
Boston College Law School,
Boston College School of Theology and Ministry,
Woods College of Advancing Studies.
Boston College athletic teams are the
Eagles. Their colors are maroon and gold and their mascot is
Baldwin the Eagle
Baldwin the Eagle, an anthropomorphized bald eagle, is the mascot of the Boston College Eagles.
The nickname "Eagles" goes back to 1920 when Rev. Edward McLaughlin, unhappy at seeing a newspaper cartoon which represented Boston College as a cat a ...
. The Eagles compete in
NCAA
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Division I as members of the
Atlantic Coast Conference
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in all sports offered by the ACC. The men's and women's ice hockey teams compete in
Hockey East
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Hockey East came into existence in 1984 fo ...
.
Boston College's men's ice hockey team has won five national championships.
Alumni and affiliates of the university include governors, ambassadors, members of Congress, scholars, writers, medical researchers, Hollywood actors, and professional athletes. Boston College has graduated three
Rhodes, 22 Truman, and more than 171
Fulbright scholars. Other notable alumni include a
U.S. Speaker of the House, a
U.S. Secretary of State, and chief executives of
Fortune 500
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companies.
History
Early history
In 1825,
Benedict Joseph Fenwick,
S.J., a Jesuit from
Maryland
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, became the second
bishop
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In Christianity, bishops are normally responsible for the governance of dioceses. The role or office of bishop is ...
of Boston. He was the first to articulate a vision for a "College in the City of Boston" that would raise a new generation of leaders to serve both the civic and spiritual needs of his fledgling diocese. In 1827, Bishop Fenwick opened a school in the basement of his
cathedral
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and took to the personal instruction of the city's youth. His efforts to attract other Jesuits to the faculty were hampered both by Boston's distance from the center of Jesuit activity in Maryland and by suspicion on the part of the city's
Protestant elite. Relations with Boston's civic leaders worsened such that, when a Jesuit faculty was finally secured in 1843, Fenwick decided to leave the Boston school and instead opened the
College of the Holy Cross
The College of the Holy Cross is a private, Jesuit liberal arts college in Worcester, Massachusetts, about 40 miles (64 km) west of Boston. Founded in 1843, Holy Cross is the oldest Catholic college in New England and one of the oldest i ...
west of the city in
Worcester, Massachusetts
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where he felt the Jesuits could operate with greater autonomy. Meanwhile, the vision for a college in Boston was sustained by
John McElroy, S.J., who saw an even greater need for such an institution in light of Boston's growing Irish Catholic immigrant population. With the approval of his Jesuit superiors, McElroy went about raising funds and in 1857 purchased land for "The Boston College" on Harrison Avenue in the Hudson neighborhood of
South End, Boston, Massachusetts
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. With little fanfare, the college's two buildings—a schoolhouse and a
church
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Religion
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* Church (congregation), a local congregation of a Christian denomination
* Church service, a formalized period of Christian communal worship
* Chris ...
—welcomed their first class of scholastics in 1859. Two years later, with as little fanfare, BC closed again. Its short-lived second incarnation was plagued by the outbreak of
Civil War
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The aim of one side may be to take control of the country or a region, to achieve independence for a region, or to change government policie ...
and disagreement within the Society over the college's governance and finances. BC's inability to obtain a charter from the anti-Catholic Massachusetts legislature only compounded its troubles.
On , more than three decades after its initial inception, Boston College's charter was formally approved by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. BC became the second
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institution of higher learning in
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and the first located in the
Boston
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area.
Johannes Bapst, S.J., a Swiss Jesuit from French-speaking
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, was selected as BC's first president and immediately reopened the original college buildings on Harrison Avenue. For most of the 19th century, BC offered a singular 7-year program corresponding to both high school and college. Its entering class in the fall of 1864 included 22 students, ranging in age from 11 to 16 years.
The curriculum was based on the Jesuit ''
Ratio Studiorum
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'', emphasizing
Latin
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,
Greek
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*Greek language, a branch of the Indo-European language family.
** Proto-Greek language, the assumed last common ancestor ...
,
philosophy
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, and
theology
Theology is the systematic study of the nature of the divine and, more broadly, of religious belief. It is taught as an academic discipline, typically in universities and seminaries. It occupies itself with the unique content of analyzing the ...
.
Move to Chestnut Hill
Boston College's enrollment reached nearly 500 by the turn of the 20th century. Expansion of the South End buildings onto James Street enabled increased separation between the high school and college divisions, though
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remained a constituent part of Boston College until 1927, when it was separately
incorporated. In 1907, newly installed President
Thomas I. Gasson, S.J., determined that BC's cramped, urban quarters in Boston's South End were inadequate and unsuited for significant expansion. Inspired by
John Winthrop's early vision of Boston as a "
city upon a hill", he re-imagined Boston College as world-renowned university and a beacon of
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scholarship. Less than a year after taking office, he purchased
Amos Adams Lawrence's farm on
Chestnut Hill, six miles (10 km) west of downtown. He organized an international competition for the design of a
campus
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master plan and set about raising funds for the construction of the "new" university. Construction began in 1909.
By 1913, construction costs had surpassed available funds, and as a result
Gasson Hall
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, "New BC's" main building, stood alone on Chestnut Hill for its first three years. Buildings of the former Lawrence farm, including a barn and gatehouse, were temporarily adapted for college use while a massive fundraising effort was underway. While Maginnis's ambitious plans were never fully realized, BC's first "capital campaign"—which included a large replica of Gasson Hall's clock tower set up on Boston Common to measure the fundraising progress—ensured that President Gasson's vision survived. By the 1920s BC began to fill out the dimensions of its university charter, establishing the Boston College Graduate School of Arts & Sciences, the
Boston College Law School, and the
Woods College of Advancing Studies, followed successively by the
Boston College Graduate School of Social Work, the
Carroll School of Management, the
Connell School of Nursing, and the
Lynch School of Education and Human Development. In 1926, Boston College conferred its first degrees on women (though it did not become fully coeducational until 1970). On April 20, 1963, an address by President
John F. Kennedy
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, the nation's first Catholic president who had received an honorary degree in 1956, was the highlight of a week-long centennial celebration. With the rising prominence of its graduates, Boston College and its powerful Alumni Association had established themselves among the city's leading institutions. At the city, state and federal levels, BC graduates dominated Massachusetts politics for much of the 20th century. However, cultural changes in American society and in the church following the
Second Vatican Council
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forced the university to question its purpose and mission. Meanwhile, poor financial management lead to deteriorating facilities and resources, and rising tuition costs. Student outrage, combined with growing protests over
Vietnam
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and the
bombings in Cambodia, culminated in student strikes, including demonstrations at
Gasson Hall
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in April 1970.
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The Monan era
By the time
J. Donald Monan, S.J. began his presidency on September 5, 1972, BC was approximately $30 million in debt, its endowment totaled just under $6 million, and faculty and staff salaries had been frozen during the previous year. Rumors about the university's future were rampant, including speculation that BC would be acquired by
Harvard University
Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of highe ...
. After Monan's appointment, the Boston College Board of Trustees was reconfigured. The board was broadened beyond its historic membership of members of the
Society of Jesus, as lay alumni and business leaders were brought in, bringing new business models and an ability to raise funds. A similar restructuring had been accomplished first at the
University of Notre Dame in 1967 by Fr.
Theodore Hesburgh
Theodore Martin Hesburgh, CSC (May 25, 1917 – February 26, 2015) was a native of Syracuse, New York, who became an ordained priest of the Congregation of Holy Cross and is best known for his service as the president of the University of N ...
,
CSC, and Edmund Stephan, with many other Catholic colleges following suit in the ensuing years. In 1974,
Newton College of the Sacred Heart was merged into BC, allowing expansion of Boston College to the Newton College campus. Boston College Law School moved to the campus, and its dormitories provided needed housing for a student population that was increasingly residential, for which the school had to lease off-campus apartments and even motel rooms. Monan was credited with turning around the school's financial position, leading to an improved reputation and increasing attention from around the world. In 1996, Monan's 24-year presidency came to an end when he was named
University Chancellor
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In most Commonwealth and former Commonwealth nations, the chancellor is ...
and succeeded by President
William P. Leahy, S.J.
Recent history

Since assuming the Boston College presidency, Leahy's tenure has been marked with an acceleration of the growth and development initiated by his predecessor, as well as by what some critics see as abandonment of the college's initial mission to provide a college education for residents of Boston. It has expanded by almost , while dramatically reducing the greenery of its middle campus, although portions of the college's legendary "Dustbowl" were removed to accommodate additional expansion of its buildings. During this period, undergraduate applications have surpassed 31,000. At the same time, BC students, faculty and athletic teams have seen indicators of success—winning record numbers of
Fulbrights,
Rhodes, and other academic awards; setting new marks for research grants; and winning conference and national titles. In 2002, Leahy initiated the Church in the 21st Century program to examine issues facing the
Catholic Church
The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.3 billion baptized Catholics worldwide . It is among the world's oldest and largest international institutions, and has played a ...
in light of the
clergy sexual abuse scandal. His effort brought BC worldwide praise and recognition for "leading the way on Church reform." Recent plans to merge with the
Weston Jesuit School of Theology were followed by an article in ''
The New York Times
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'' claiming "such a merger would further Boston College's quest to become the nation's Catholic intellectual powerhouse" and that, once approved by the
Vatican and Jesuit authorities in
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, BC "would become ''the'' center for the study of Roman Catholic theology in the United States." On February 16, 2006, the merger was authorized by the
Jesuit Conference.

In 2003, after years of student-led discussions and efforts, and administrators' repeated rejection of pleas from students, the school approved a Gay-Straight Alliance, the first university-funded gay support group on campus. In 2004, between 1,000 and 1,200 students rallied behind a student-led campaign to expand the school's non-discrimination statement to include equal protection for gays and lesbians. Earlier that year 84% of the student body voted in favor of a student referendum calling for a change in policy. After several months of discussion the university changed its statement of nondiscrimination to make it more welcoming to gay students in May 2005, but stopped short of prohibiting discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation.

On December 5, 2007, Boston College announced a master plan, a $1.6 billion, 10-year plan to revamp the campus and hire new faculty. The plan includes over $700 million for new buildings and renovations of the campus, including construction of four new academic buildings, a sharp reduction in the size of the legendary "dustbowl" campus green, a recreation center to replace the Flynn Recreation Complex, a university center to replace McElroy Commons (which is slated for destruction), and the creation of 610 beds for student housing, as well as many other constructions and renovations. The plan has been criticized by Boston city officials. On February 21, 2008,
Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino warned the school to construct new dormitory building on its main campus, rather than on property acquired from the
Archdiocese of Boston. The school was long an institution that targeted commuter students from the Boston area, however in the school's pursuit of a national legacy, that function has been forgotten as the number of commuter students enrolled dropped from well over 50% to a mere three students, according to statistics published by the alumni magazine.
On June 10, 2009, Mayor Menino and Boston's zoning commission approved the Boston College Master Plan, signaling an end to the long approval process, while allowing the school to enter design and planning phases.
On October 18, 2017, hundreds of students walked out of class in a protest against
racism
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and to demand the college officials pay more attention to the school's racial climate. The walk out was sparked by the defacing of two
Black Lives Matter
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posters and an offensive photo was circulated on social media sites. On December 8, 2018, walls, furniture, and a bathroom in the Welch Hall were vandalized with racist, anti-black graffiti.
Also, over the previous months, pro-refugee and Black Lives Matter signs were repeatedly removed around campus.
Campus
Chestnut Hill main campus
Boston College's main campus in Chestnut Hill, west of downtown Boston, is and includes over 120 buildings set on a hilltop overlooking the
Chestnut Hill Reservoir. A "
Boston College" streetcar station on Boston's
MBTA public transit system, is located at St. Ignatius Gate; it is the western terminus of the
Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority
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(MBTA)
Green Line's
B branch (also known as the "Boston College" line) and connects the school to Boston's
city center
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and to other destinations in the city. Due largely to its location and presence of buildings featuring gothic towers reaching into the sky, the Boston College campus is known generally as the "Heights" and to some as the "Crowned Hilltop".
The
main campus is also listed on the
National Register of Historic Places
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.
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Designed by
Charles Donagh Maginnis and his firm
Maginnis & Walsh in 1908, the Boston College campus is a seminal example of
Collegiate Gothic
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architecture. Combining
Gothic Revival
Gothic Revival (also referred to as Victorian Gothic, neo-Gothic, or Gothick) is an architectural movement that began in the late 1740s in England. The movement gained momentum and expanded in the first half of the 19th century, as increasingly ...
architecture with principles of
Beaux-Arts planning, Maginnis proposed a vast complex of academic buildings set in a
cruciform
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Cruciform architectural plan
Christian churches are commonly described ...
plan. Maginnis's design broke from the traditional
Oxbridge
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models that had inspired it—and that had until then characterized Gothic architecture on American campuses. In its unprecedented scale,
Gasson Tower was conceived not as the
belfry of a singular building, but as the crowning
campanile of Maginnis' new "
city upon a hill". Although Maginnis' ambitious Gothic project never saw full completion, its central portion was built according to plan and forms the core of what is now BC's iconic middle campus. Among these, the
Bapst Library has been called the "finest example of Collegiate Gothic architecture in America" and
Devlin Hall won the
Harleston Parker Medal for "most beautiful building in Boston". The 1895
Louis K. Liggett Estate was acquired in 1941 and developed into a
Tudor-style upper campus, while an architecturally eclectic lower campus took shape on land acquired by filling in part of the
Chestnut Hill Reservoir. Modernism had an enormous impact on development after the 1940s, though some of the modernist buildings at BC maintained non-modern rough stone facades in keeping with Maginnis's original designs.

Boston College's eight research libraries contain over two million printed volumes. Including manuscripts, journals, government documents and microform items, ranging from ancient papyrus scrolls to digital databases, the collections have some twelve million items. Together with the university's museums, they include original manuscripts and prints by
Galileo
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,
Ignatius of Loyola
Ignatius of Loyola, S.J. (born Íñigo López de Oñaz y Loyola; eu, Ignazio Loiolakoa; es, Ignacio de Loyola; la, Ignatius de Loyola; – 31 July 1556), venerated as Saint Ignatius of Loyola, was a Spanish Catholic priest and theologian, ...
, and
Francis Xavier
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as well as world-renowned collections in
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ana,
Irish literature, sixteenth-century
Flemish
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tapestries, ancient
Greek
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*Greek language, a branch of the Indo-European language family.
** Proto-Greek language, the assumed last common ancestor ...
pottery,
Caribbean
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folk art and literature,
Japanese prints,
U.S. government documents,
Congressional
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Archives, and paintings that span the history of art from
Europe
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,
Asia
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, and the
Americas
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. Opened in 1928,
Bapst Library was named for the first president of Boston College (
Johannes Bapst, S.J., 1815 to 1887) and it was one of the few structures built according to Charles Donagh Maginnis' original "Oxford in America" master plan. Bapst served as the university's main library until 1984. A guide to the building's stained glass windows is available online. The Burns Library of Rare Books and Special Collections is home to more than 150,000 volumes, some 15 million manuscripts and other important works, including a world-renowned collection of Irish literature. A rare facsimile of the
Book of Kells
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is on public display in the library's Irish Room, and each day one page of the
illuminated manuscript
An illuminated manuscript is a formally prepared document where the text is often supplemented with flourishes such as borders and miniature illustrations. Often used in the Roman Catholic Church for prayers, liturgical services and psalms, t ...
is turned. It also houses the papers of prominent Boston College alumni. The library is named after the Honorable John. J. Burns (1901 to 1957), Massachusetts Superior Court Justice and a member of the Boston College Class of 1921.

There are a variety of student housing options for students on campus. Those located on lower campus are Walsh, Rubenstein, Ignacio, 90 St. Thomas More Road, 66 Commonwealth Ave, Vanderslice, Gabelli, Voute, Stayer, and 'The Mods'. Roncalli, Welch, and Williams Halls are located on the middle campus on College Road. Freshman housing on Upper Campus includes Kostka, Gonzaga, Fitzpatrick, Medeiros, Cheverus, Claver, Loyola, Xavier, Fenwick, and Shaw House. Additional freshman housing is on the Newton Campus and includes Cushing, Duchesne (East and West), Hardey, and Keyes (North and South).
In the fall of 2010, Boston College began construction of Stokes Hall, a academic building on what was formerly known as the Dustbowl. Stokes Hall is the first academic building to be constructed on the Middle Campus since 2001. It was completed in December 2012, and opened for use in January 2013. In 2014, the university reconstructed St. Mary's Hall and renovated indoor pieces of Carney Hall. More Hall had been demolished to make way for a new residence hall in July 2014, slated to open sometime in 2016.
Middle Campus

* Carney Faculty Center
Located on middle campus, Carney Faculty Center no longer hosts classes and is largely office space. Rather, the building houses the offices of the Army ROTC program as well as the Student Program Offices. Often known as 'dark and dank', the building is distinct from the quadrangle area located across the campus green, known as the Dustbowl. Built in 1963, Carney has an unusual structure seeming to face away from the rest of the campus. Contrary to popular belief, the building was not built backwards but rather styled to allow more offices to have windows, according to BC Historian, Professor Thomas O'Connor. The Beacon Street side of the building contains a fountain in the middle of the courtyard; the fountain has been dry for decades as the result of the frequent use of powdered soap pranks by undergraduate students. The building additionally contains sets of unused lockers throughout the floors, which added to the fictitious speculation of the building being a former high school although they had been used by the commuter students who formed the vast majority of enrollment for many years. The existing 10-year university plan slates Carney Hall for reconstruction. Sections of the first floor have received new carpets, fresh coats of paint, and new ceiling tiles. The existing university 30–50-year plan schedules the reconstructed building to remain part of the quadrangle.

* McElroy Commons
Located on the Southwest Corner of middle campus, McElroy is referred to by students as 'Mac', reflecting the common, but incorrect, pronunciation of the building's name. McElroy Commons holds a variety of offices and contains Carney's Dining Hall which serves the majority of students living on College Road and Upper Campus. Eagle's Nest, a lunch spot is located on the second floor of the building. The first floor of the building was updated in the summer of 2013.
* Stokes Hall
*
Fulton Hall
* McGuinn Hall
*
Devlin Hall
* Lyons Hall
*
Gasson Hall
Gasson Hall is a building on the campus of Boston College in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts. Designed by Charles Donagh Maginnis in 1908, the hall has influenced the development of Collegiate Gothic architecture in North America. Gasson Hall is n ...
* St. Mary's Hall
*
Bapst Library

One of the most iconic images of Boston College lies within Gargan Hall of Bapst Library. Gargan Hall is a widely popular study location for students, open 24 hours on most days and known as the quietest place on campus. Gargan Hall regularly finds itself in the top 10 of the world's most beautiful libraries. While for years the hall contained a red rug, the hall now is carpeted in emerald green. This art library contains over 51,000 volumes, 150 serial titles, and access to hundreds of journal databases and electronic journals in Art, Architecture, Museum Studies and Photography. The library maintains print and electronic reserves for courses in the Fine Arts.
* O'Neill Library
* Cushing Hall
* Campion Hall
* Merkert Hall
* Higgins Hall
* Maloney Hall
Newton Campus
In addition to the main campus at Chestnut Hill, BC's Newton Campus, formerly Newton College of the Sacred Heart, is located to the west in the inner suburb of
Newton, Massachusetts
Newton is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. It is approximately west of downtown Boston. Newton resembles a patchwork of thirteen villages, without a city center. According to the 2020 U.S. Census, the population of Ne ...
. The campus is home to the law school, Stuart Dining Hall, Trinity Chapel, and residential housing for roughly 40% of the freshman class. Freshman dormitories on Newton Campus include Hardey, Cushing, Duchesne, and Keyes. Two athletic fields and a recreation center are also located on the campus. A new building opened in 1996 housing the Law Library for the
Boston College Law School in Newton.
Brighton Campus
Between 2004 and 2007, Boston College acquired of land from the
Archdiocese of Boston.
This included the archdiocese's former headquarters, sold to the university in 2004 for $107,400,000.
The grounds are named after
Brighton
Brighton () is a seaside resort and one of the two main areas of the City of Brighton and Hove in the county of East Sussex, England. It is located south of London.
Archaeological evidence of settlement in the area dates back to the Bronze Ag ...
, the Boston neighborhood in which it is located, as the municipal border sits on the street intersection where the two properties meet. It is adjacent to the main campus (on the opposite side of
Commonwealth Avenue), and includes the Italian Renaissance-style historic mansion of the
Cardinal's residence. The mansion now houses the
McMullen Museum of Art, which has a prominent permanent collection and organizes exhibits from all periods and cultures of
art history
Art history is the study of aesthetic objects and visual expression in historical and stylistic context. Traditionally, the discipline of art history emphasized painting, drawing, sculpture, architecture, ceramics and decorative arts; yet today, ...
. Recent exhibits and acquisitions include works by
Edvard Munch
Edvard Munch ( , ; 12 December 1863 – 23 January 1944) was a Norwegian painter. His best known work, ''The Scream'' (1893), has become one of Western art's most iconic images.
His childhood was overshadowed by illness, bereavement and the dr ...
,
Amedeo Modigliani,
Frank Stella,
Françoise Gilot
Marie Françoise Gilot (born 26 November 1921) is a French painter, best known for her relationship with Pablo Picasso, with whom she had two children. Gilot was already launched as an accomplished artist, notably in watercolours and ceramics, b ...
,
John LaFarge, and
Jackson Pollock
Paul Jackson Pollock (; January 28, 1912August 11, 1956) was an American painter and a major figure in the abstract expressionist movement. He was widely noticed for his " drip technique" of pouring or splashing liquid household paint onto a ho ...
. However, outshining by far all McMullen exhibitions, previous and subsequent, in terms of international media attention and attendance numbers was the 1999 exhibition, "Saints and Sinners: Caravaggio and the Baroque Image," featuring as its centerpiece the first North American appearance of the then-recently rediscovered masterpiece by Italian Baroque artist
Caravaggio
Michelangelo Merisi (Michele Angelo Merigi or Amerighi) da Caravaggio, known as simply Caravaggio (, , ; 29 September 1571 – 18 July 1610), was an Italian painter active in Rome for most of his artistic life. During the final four years of h ...
, ''
The Taking of Christ''. Admission to the museum is free and open to the general public. In 2008, the Weston Jesuit School of Theology merged with Boston College, and the new School of Theology and Ministry moved to Brighton. In addition to other offices and facilities, the Brighton campus is home to the
Harrington Athletics Village.
File:Simboli Hall.jpg, Simboli Hall, School of Theology and Ministry
File:McMullen Museum of Art.jpg, McMullen Museum of Art
Other properties in Chestnut Hill
In 2017, the university purchased the 24-acre Mishkan Tefila Synagogue property in Chestnut Hill. When purchased, the property was only used for administrative services and event parking. The former synagogue's 806-seat auditorium has since been opened as a new rehearsal and event venue for Boston College's Robsham Theater Arts Center. It is currently the largest venue for theater at the university. Additionally, the building houses a large, ballroom-style, multi-purpose room and a hexagon-shaped meeting room for performances, events, and conferences. An outdoor quad is also available to be used for events and the performing arts.
Approximately 17 wooded acres of the property, however, have been taken by the City of
Newton under the power of
eminent domain
Eminent domain (United States, Philippines), land acquisition (India, Malaysia, Singapore), compulsory purchase/acquisition (Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, United Kingdom), resumption (Hong Kong, Uganda), resumption/compulsory acquisition (Austr ...
in December 2019.
In 2020, Boston College bought
Pine Manor College, a small liberal arts college in Chestnut Hill with a high amount of first generation college students and inner city students that was undergoing financial struggles.
Other properties
The university owns and maintains a number of other properties around Massachusetts and the
Republic of Ireland
Ireland ( ga, Éire ), also known as the Republic of Ireland (), is a country in north-western Europe consisting of 26 of the 32 counties of the island of Ireland. The capital and largest city is Dublin, on the eastern side of the island. ...
.
*
Connors Center: an retreat center in
Dover, Massachusetts
Dover is a town in Norfolk County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 5,923 at the time of the 2020 United States Census. With a median income of more than $250,000, Dover is one of the wealthiest towns in Massachusetts.
Located abo ...
.
*
Weston Observatory: a seismology research observatory and field station in
Weston, Massachusetts
Weston is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, about 15 miles west of Boston. At the time of the 2020 United States Census, the population of Weston was 11,851.
Weston was incorporated in 1713, and protection of the town's historic resourc ...
.
* Boston College Ireland: home to the Centre for Irish Programmes: Dublin on
St. Stephen's Green in
Dublin
Dublin (; , or ) is the capital and largest city of Ireland. On a bay at the mouth of the River Liffey, it is in the province of Leinster, bordered on the south by the Dublin Mountains, a part of the Wicklow Mountains range. At the 2016 cen ...
,
Ireland
Ireland ( ; ga, Éire ; Ulster-Scots: ) is an island in the North Atlantic Ocean, in north-western Europe. It is separated from Great Britain to its east by the North Channel, the Irish Sea, and St George's Channel. Ireland is the s ...
.
* Bellarmine House: an Jesuit Villa House in
Cohasset, Massachusetts, maintained by the Jesuits Community at BC and used for religious retreats.
Organization and administration
Its annual operating budget is approximately $667 million. The most recent and ongoing fundraising campaign, dubbed "Light the World", was announced on October 11, 2008. The seven-year campaign aims to raise $1.5 billion in honor of the 150th anniversary of the college. Funds raised will be used to support the strategic priorities of the university, including academic programs, financial aid, Jesuit Catholic identity, athletics, student programming, and capital construction projects.
Catholic and Jesuit

The 112 Jesuits living on the Boston College campus make up one of the largest Jesuit communities in the world and include members of the faculty and administration, graduate students, and visiting international scholars.
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Disambiguation
." December 7, 2005, ''Boston College Magazine''. Retrieved December 26, 2006.
The
chapel
A chapel is a Christian place of prayer and worship that is usually relatively small. The term has several meanings. Firstly, smaller spaces inside a church that have their own altar are often called chapels; the Lady chapel is a common type ...
for the university is located in St. Mary's Hall, the Jesuit residential facility. Additional BC chapels are Trinity Chapel on the Newton Campus, St. Joseph's Chapel in the Basement of Gonzaga Hall on Upper Campus, Simboli Hall Chapel on the Brighton Campus, and St. Catherine of Sienna Chapel in Cushing Hall. Over 70 Catholic
Masses are celebrated on Campus each week during the Academic Year. The college also maintains close relations with the nearby Church of Saint Ignatius of Loyola. The church is named after the founder of the Jesuit
order,
Ignatius of Loyola
Ignatius of Loyola, S.J. (born Íñigo López de Oñaz y Loyola; eu, Ignazio Loiolakoa; es, Ignacio de Loyola; la, Ignatius de Loyola; – 31 July 1556), venerated as Saint Ignatius of Loyola, was a Spanish Catholic priest and theologian, ...
. It is run independently of the
Archdiocese
In church governance, a diocese or bishopric is the ecclesiastical district under the jurisdiction of a bishop.
History
In the later organization of the Roman Empire, the increasingly subdivided provinces were administratively associat ...
and is staffed by the Jesuits. Although not technically the university's church, Boston College provides the parish with Internet access, e-mail service, telephone and
voice mail service, parking, and dormitory space for the
religious education program. Each year, several Boston College students teach in the religious education program. Jesuit priests from Boston College occasionally preside at the church's liturgies. St. Ignatius provides a spiritual home for many students during their time at Boston College and has also hosted alumni
wedding
A wedding is a ceremony where two people are united in marriage. Wedding traditions and customs vary greatly between cultures, ethnic groups, religions, countries, and social classes. Most wedding ceremonies involve an exchange of marriag ...
s. The church building is also used by the college for some of their larger religious events.
Affiliated institutions
St. Columbkille Parish is a
Catholic Church
The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.3 billion baptized Catholics worldwide . It is among the world's oldest and largest international institutions, and has played a ...
and
elementary school
A primary school (in Ireland, the United Kingdom, Australia, Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica, and South Africa), junior school (in Australia), elementary school or grade school (in North America and the Philippines) is a school for primary ed ...
in
Brighton
Brighton () is a seaside resort and one of the two main areas of the City of Brighton and Hove in the county of East Sussex, England. It is located south of London.
Archaeological evidence of settlement in the area dates back to the Bronze Ag ...
,
Massachusetts
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that has an alliance with BC. Under the agreement, the parish school is to be governed by a board of members and a
board of trustees
A board of directors (commonly referred simply as the board) is an executive committee that jointly supervises the activities of an organization, which can be either a for-profit or a nonprofit organization such as a business, nonprofit organi ...
comprising representatives from
the Archdiocese of Boston, Boston College,
St. Columbkille Parish
A parish is a territorial entity in many Christian denominations, constituting a division within a diocese. A parish is under the pastoral care and clerical jurisdiction of a priest, often termed a parish priest, who might be assisted by one or ...
and the
greater Boston
Greater Boston is the metropolitan region of New England encompassing the municipality of Boston (the capital of the U.S. state of Massachusetts and the most populous city in New England) and its surrounding areas. The region forms the northern a ...
community. The board of trustees will authorize an audit of the school's curriculum, faculty, finances, and facilities before creating a strategic plan to guide the school in the future.
Lynch School of Education and Human Development faculty will work directly with the school's teachers on faculty and curriculum development, presenting new approaches to education and working to establish best practices in the classroom. The agreement, announced in March 2006 by University President
William P. Leahy, S.J., and Boston Cardinal
Sean O'Malley,
OFM Cap., is believed to represent the first such collaboration between a Catholic university and a
parochial school in the
United States
The United States of America (U.S.A. or USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S. or US) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It consists of 50 states, a federal district, five major unincorporated territorie ...
.
Admissions
For the Class of 2025, Boston College received 39,875 applications, of which it admitted 18.9%. The
interquartile (middle 50%) of admitted students of the class of 2025 who submitted test scores under Boston College's test-optional policy possessed scores between 1460 and 1540 on the
SAT
The SAT ( ) is a standardized test widely used for college admissions in the United States. Since its debut in 1926, its name and scoring have changed several times; originally called the Scholastic Aptitude Test, it was later called the Schola ...
and 33–35 on the
ACT. The accepted class includes students from 50
states, 3 U.S. territories, and 75 foreign countries.
Academics
Schools and colleges

As a research university, Boston College is made up of a total of eight constituent colleges and schools:
*
Morrissey College of Arts & Sciences
*
Carroll School of Management
*
Lynch School of Education and Human Development
*
Connell School of Nursing
*
Boston College School of Social Work
*
Boston College Law School
*
Boston College School of Theology and Ministry
*
Woods College of Advancing Studies
Rankings
Boston College tied for 35th among national universities and tied for 468th among global universities in ''
U.S. News & World Report'' "America's Best Colleges 2021" rankings
and 41st in the ''
Forbes
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'' 2019 edition of "America's Top Colleges",
In 2016, the undergraduate school of business, the
Carroll School of Management, placed 3rd in an annual ranking of U.S. undergraduate business schools by ''
Bloomberg Businessweek
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''. A 2007
Princeton Review survey of parents that asked "What 'dream college' would you most like to see your child attend were prospects of acceptance or cost not issues?" placed BC 6th. Boston College is
accredited by the
New England Commission of Higher Education.
Gabelli Presidential Scholars Program
The Gabelli Presidential Scholars Program is a competitive undergraduate program offered to a subset of applicants to Boston College.
This program offers a four-year, full-tuition scholarship to Boston College. Students who accept an invitation to apply for the program are asked to spend a weekend at Boston College, where they complete several interviews and participate in a mock classroom seminar.
The Gabelli Presidential Scholars Program is very competitive; out of the Boston College applicants invited to apply to the GPSP program, approximately 18 are awarded the scholarship.
Since the entire early application pool is evaluated in determining whom to grant application invitations to, the overall admissions rate of the program is less than 1%.
The scholarship includes a number of funded enrichment opportunities such as several summer programs, among them a summer-long international study program for language proficiency.
Many Gabelli Presidential Scholars have been recognized for academic excellence through prestigious awards including Rhodes, Truman, and Churchill Scholarships along with numerous Fulbright grants.
Order of the Cross and Crown
The Order of the Cross and Crown, founded in 1939, is the College of Arts and Sciences honor society for seniors who have achieved an average of at least A−, as well as established records of unusual service and leadership on the campus. The selections committee, composed of the deans, faculty members, and administration, appoints specially distinguished members of the Order to be its officers as Chief Marshal and Marshals. Induction into the Cross and Crown Honor Society is one of the highest and most prestigious honors that BC students can receive.
Campbell Soup Company
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CEO,
Denise Morrison is an example of one prominent member.
Research
Scholarly publications
* ''Boston College Environmental Affairs Law Review''
* ''
Boston College Law Review
The ''Boston College Law Review'' is an academic journal of legal scholarship and a student organization at Boston College Law School. It was established in 1959. Until 1977, it was known as the ''Boston College Industrial & Commercial Law Review' ...
''
* ''C21 Resources'', a progressive journal of contemporary Catholic issues, published by BC's Church in the 21st Century Center.
* ''Dianoia: The Undergraduate Philosophy Journal of Boston College'', a journal featuring undergraduate work in philosophy from around the world.
* ''The Eagletarian'', published by The BC Economics Association.
* ''Guide to Jesuit Education''
* ''International & Comparative Law Review''
* ''Journal of Technology, Learning and Assessment''
* ''Lumen et Vita: The Graduate Academic Journal of the Boston College School of Theology and Ministry'',
* ''New Arcadia Review''
* ''Religion and the Arts Journal''
* ''Studies in Christian-Jewish Relations'', the official journal of the
Council of Centers of Jewish-Christian Relations (CCJR) and is published by the Center for Christian-Jewish Learning at Boston College and the Boston College Libraries.
* ''Teaching Exceptional Children / Teaching Exceptional Children Plus''
* ''Third World Law Journal''
* ''Uniform Commercial Code Reporter-Digest''
Philosophy
Philosophy has long been an important part of the university's curriculum. In the seventies, Boston College's Philosophy Department distinguished itself from the majority of American Departments by promoting the study of
Continental European philosophy over and above
analytic philosophy
Analytic philosophy is a branch and tradition of philosophy using analysis, popular in the Western world and particularly the Anglosphere, which began around the turn of the 20th century in the contemporary era in the United Kingdom, United St ...
. Under the direction of Department Chair Joseph Flanagan, SJ and following the example of
Fordham University
Fordham University () is a private Jesuit research university in New York City. Established in 1841 and named after the Fordham neighborhood of the Bronx in which its original campus is located, Fordham is the oldest Catholic and Jesuit uni ...
, the department branched out from its traditional strengths in philosophy of religion, ancient/medieval philosophy, and
Thomism
Thomism is the philosophical and theological school that arose as a legacy of the work and thought of Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274), the Dominican philosopher, theologian, and Doctor of the Church. In philosophy, Aquinas' disputed questions ...
. It has since become a leading university in the United States for the study of
continental philosophy. As of 2021, Boston College ranks 39th in the world, and 13th in the United States, for philosophy according to the
QS World University Rankings
''QS World University Rankings'' is an annual publication of university rankings by Quacquarelli Symonds (QS). The QS system comprises three parts: the global overall ranking, the subject rankings (which name the world's top universities for the ...
.
The department has featured as permanent faculty a number of noted continental philosophers including Heidegger scholar
William J. Richardson, SJ as well as experts in phenomenology
Richard Cobb-Stevens and
Jacques Taminiaux. The department today still has a large proportion of experts in continental philosophy including European philosophy and literature expert
Richard Kearney
Richard Kearney (; born 1954) is an Irish philosopher and public intellectual specializing in contemporary continental philosophy. He is the Charles Seelig Professor in Philosophy at Boston College and has taught at University College Dublin, ...
, expert in phenomenology
John Sallis, expert in Christian philosophy and apologetics
Peter Kreeft, and experts in social and political philosophy
David M. Rasmussen and James Bernauer, SJ. Since the seventies, the department has also had a number of notable visiting professors including
Hans-Georg Gadamer
Hans-Georg Gadamer (; ; February 11, 1900 – March 13, 2002) was a German philosopher of the continental tradition, best known for his 1960 '' magnum opus'', '' Truth and Method'' (''Wahrheit und Methode''), on hermeneutics.
Life
Family ...
,
Jean-Luc Marion
Jean-Luc Marion (born 3 July 1946) is a French philosopher and Roman Catholic theologian. Marion is a former student of Jacques Derrida whose work is informed by patristic and mystical theology, phenomenology, and modern philosophy.Horner 2005 ...
, and
Bernard Lonergan, SJ.
Student life
AHANA
AHANA is the term Boston College uses to refer to persons of
African-American
African Americans (also referred to as Black Americans and Afro-Americans) are an ethnic group consisting of Americans with partial or total ancestry from sub-Saharan Africa. The term "African American" generally denotes descendants of ensl ...
,
Hispanic
The term ''Hispanic'' ( es, hispano) refers to people, cultures, or countries related to Spain, the Spanish language, or Hispanidad.
The term commonly applies to countries with a cultural and historical link to Spain and to viceroyalties former ...
,
Asian, and
Native American descent. The term was coined at Boston College in 1979 by two students, Alfred Feliciano and Valerie Lewis, who objected to the name "Office of Minority Programs" used by Boston College at the time. They cited the definition of the word
minority as "less than" and proposed, instead, to use the term AHANA which they felt celebrated social cultural differences. After receiving overwhelming approval from the university's board of
trustees, and UGBC president Dan Cotter, the Office of Minority Student Programs became the Office of AHANA Student Programs. The term, or one or its derivative forms, such as ALANA (where "
Latino" is substituted for "Hispanic"), has become common on a number of other American university campuses. Boston College, which has registered the term AHANA as a
trademark
A trademark (also written trade mark or trade-mark) is a type of intellectual property consisting of a recognizable sign, design, or expression that identifies products or services from a particular source and distinguishes them from oth ...
, has granted official permission for its use to over 50 institutions and organizations in the
United States
The United States of America (U.S.A. or USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S. or US) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It consists of 50 states, a federal district, five major unincorporated territorie ...
. Many more use the term unofficially. Other institutions that use the AHANA acronym include
Suffolk University
Suffolk University is a private research university in Boston, Massachusetts. With 7,560 students (includes all campuses, 7,379 at the Boston location alone), it is the eighth-largest university in metropolitan Boston. It was founded as a l ...
,
Cleveland State University
Cleveland State University (CSU) is a public research university in Cleveland, Ohio. It was established in 1964 and opened for classes in 1965 after acquiring the entirety of Fenn College, a private school that had been in operation since 1923. ...
,
Eastern Mennonite University
Eastern Mennonite University (EMU) is a private Mennonite university in Harrisonburg, Virginia. The university also operates a satellite campus in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, which primarily caters to working adults. EMU's bachelor-degree holder ...
,
Saint Martin's University,
Le Moyne College, and
Salem State University. With some support on campus, there are still racist incidents on campus, such as Black Lives Matter posters being torn down and anti-black vandalism on dorm walls.
Student media
;Newspapers
* ''
The Heights'', the principal
student newspaper, published weekly; established in 1919
* ''The Gavel'', an independent progressive student magazine; launched on October 27, 2009. ''The Gavel'' publishes most articles online, but brought back its print edition in the Spring of 2018.
* ''The Torch'', an independent Catholic student newspaper that publishes stories covering Catholic news on campus and around the world as well as student faith reflections. It was established in 2013.
* ''The Rock'', an independent student online publication recognized by the university. Launched on September 26, 2011
* ''The New England Classic'', a satirical newspaper unrecognized by the university but regularly published and distributed on campus; launched in Fall 2007 and is independently funded.
* ''Colloquium Political Science Journal'', The political science journal of Boston College that is sponsored by the Institute for the Liberal Arts at Boston College.
;Broadcasting
* ''The BC'', a widely acclaimed parody of ''
The OC
''The O.C. '' is an American teen drama television series created by Josh Schwartz that originally aired on the Fox network in the United States from August 5, 2003, to February 22, 2007, running a total of four seasons. "O.C." is an initiali ...
'' featuring students, Jesuits, and administrators
* Boston College Television (BCTV), a student-run cable
television station
A television station is a set of equipment managed by a business, organisation or other entity, such as an amateur television (ATV) operator, that transmits video content and audio content via radio waves directly from a transmitter on the ear ...
formerly featuring a show known as ''Now You Know'', but now reports on student life, sports, entertainment, and other subjects
*
WZBC, 90.3 FM, the student-run
radio station
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which provides independent and experimental music
;Other notable publications
* ''Sub Turri'', the Boston College
yearbook
A yearbook, also known as an annual, is a type of a book published annually. One use is to record, highlight, and commemorate the past year of a school. The term also refers to a book of statistics or facts published annually. A yearbook often ...
, published since 1913
* ''
The Stylus of Boston College'', the undergraduate literary magazine, founded in 1882
* ''Elements Undergraduate Research Journal'', the premier undergraduate research journal of Boston College, published biannually
* ''Al-Noor: The Boston College Undergraduate Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies Journal'', one of the only undergraduate Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies Journals in the world.
* ''Kaleidoscope International Journal'', the international relations and global studies journal of Boston College
* ''Dianoia: The Undergraduate Philosophy Journal of Boston College''
;Ensembles
* BC bOp", the Boston College
jazz band
*
Boston College "Screaming Eagles" Marching Band
* Boston College Symphony Orchestra,
* Pep Band, the ensemble that performs at
Boston College hockey and basketball games
* University Wind Ensemble of Boston College
* University Symphonic Band
* University Chorale of Boston College
* Madrigal Singers of Boston College
Theater Performance
* The Dramatics Society
* Contemporary Theater
''Alma mater''
''Alma Mater'' was written by T.J. Hurley, who also wrote ''
For Boston'' (the Boston College
Fight Song) and was a member of the Class of 1885.
Athletics

Boston College teams are known as the Eagles. They compete as a member of the
National Collegiate Athletic Association
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(NCAA)
Division I level (Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) sub-level for football), primarily competing in the
Atlantic Coast Conference
The Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) is a collegiate athletic conference located in the eastern United States. Headquartered in Greensboro, North Carolina, the ACC's fifteen member universities compete in the National Collegiate Athletic Associa ...
(ACC) for all sports since the 2005–06 season. The Eagles formerly competed as a charter member of the
Big East Conference
The Big East Conference is a collegiate athletic conference that competes in NCAA Division I in ten men's sports and twelve women's sports. Headquartered in New York City, the eleven full-member schools are primarily located in Northeast and ...
from 1979–80 to 2004–05. Up to that point, Boston College was the only Big East member affiliated with the Catholic Church that played football in the conference. All the football-playing members of the Big East are now secular (usually public) institutions. Men's sports include baseball, basketball, cross country, fencing (non-ACC), football, golf, ice hockey (non-ACC), sailing (non-ACC), skiing (non-ACC), soccer, swimming, tennis, and track & field; while women's sports include basketball, cross country, fencing (non-ACC), field hockey, golf, ice hockey (non-ACC), lacrosse, rowing, sailing, skiing, soccer, softball, swimming, tennis, track & field and volleyball. The men's and women's ice hockey teams compete in
Hockey East
The Hockey East Association, also known as Hockey East, is a college ice hockey conference which operates entirely in New England. It participates in the NCAA's Division I as a hockey-only conference.
Hockey East came into existence in 1984 fo ...
; while the women's rowing team competes in the
Eastern Association of Women's Rowing Colleges (EAWRC) as well as the ACC; and the co-ed skiing, fencing and sailing teams are non-ACC/NCAA. Boston College is one of only thirteen universities in the country offering NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (formerly, I-A) football, Division I men's and women's basketball, and Division I hockey.

The mascot for all Boston College athletic teams is the
Eagle
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, generally referred to in the plural, i.e., "The Eagles". The character representing the mascot at football, hockey, and basketball games is an American bald eagle named
Baldwin, derived from the "bald" head of the American bald eagle and the word "win". The school colors are
maroon
Maroon ( US/ UK , Australia ) is a brownish crimson color that takes its name from the French word ''marron'', or chestnut. "Marron" is also one of the French translations for "brown".
According to multiple dictionaries, there are var ...
and
gold
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. The fight song, ''
For Boston'', was composed by T.J. Hurley, class of 1885.

In hockey and baseball, Boston College participates in the annual
Beanpot tournaments held at
TD Banknorth Garden and
Fenway Park
Fenway Park is a baseball stadium located in Boston, Massachusetts, United States, near Kenmore Square. Since 1912, it has been the home of the Boston Red Sox, the city's American League baseball team, and since 1953, its only Major League B ...
, respectively. Boston College competes in the Beanpot against the three other major sports colleges in Boston: the
Northeastern University Huskies
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,
Harvard University
Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of highe ...
Crimson, and
Boston University Terriers. BC has reached the championship game 31 times and has won the Beanpot 16 times, including the 2010, 2011 and 2012 championships. The less renowned baseball tournament, was first played in 1990 and out of seventeen baseball Beanpots, Boston College has won nine, last winning in 2008. The baseball team also plays an exhibition game against the
Boston Red Sox
The Boston Red Sox are an American professional baseball team based in Boston. The Red Sox compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the American League (AL) East division. Founded in as one of the American League's eigh ...
at
jetBlue Park after several years at
City Of Palms Park
City of Palms Park is a baseball stadium in Fort Myers, Florida. It served as the spring training home of the Boston Red Sox of Major League Baseball (MLB) from its opening in 1993 to 2011. It has hosted college baseball games for Florida South ...
both in
Ft. Myers,
Florida
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during
Major League Baseball
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's
spring training. The men's hockey team won the
2008 NCAA Championship on April 12, 2008, with a 4–1 victory over the University of Notre Dame in
Denver
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,
Colorado
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, the
2010 NCAA Championship with a 5–0 victory over Wisconsin on April 10, 2010, and in 2012 in the
2012 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament with a 4–1 victory over
Ferris State University in Tampa.
Principal athletic facilities include
Alumni Stadium (capacity: 44,500),
Conte Forum
The Silvio O. Conte Forum, commonly known as Conte Forum, Kelley Rink (for ice hockey games), or simply Conte, is an 8,606-seat multi-purpose arena which opened in 1988 on the campus of Boston College in Chestnut Hill, near Boston, Massachusett ...
(8,606),
Kelley Rink (7,884),
Eddie Pellagrini Diamond at John Shea Field (1,000), the Newton Soccer Complex (1,000), and the Flynn Recreation Complex. The
Yawkey Athletics Center opened in the spring of 2005. BC students compete in 31 varsity sports
as well as a number of club and intramural teams. On March 18, 2002, Boston College's Athletics program was named to the College Sports Honor Roll as one of the nation's top 20 programs by ''
U.S. News & World Report''.
Boston College athletes are among the most academically successful in the nation, according to the NCAA's
Academic Progress Rate (APR). In 2006 Boston College received Public Recognition Awards with fourteen of its sports in the top 10% of the nation academically. The Eagles tied
Notre Dame for the highest total of any Division I-A university. Other schools having ten or more sports honored included
Navy
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(12),
Stanford
Stanford University, officially Leland Stanford Junior University, is a private research university in Stanford, California. The campus occupies , among the largest in the United States, and enrolls over 17,000 students. Stanford is consider ...
(11), and
Duke
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(11). Teams honored were football, men's fencing, men's outdoor track, men's skiing, women's rowing, women's cross country, women's fencing, women's field hockey, women's indoor track, women's outdoor track, women's skiing, women's swimming, women's soccer, women's tennis, and women's volleyball. Boston College's football program was one of only five Division I-A teams that were so honored. The other four were
Auburn, Navy, Stanford, and Duke.
Football

The Boston College Eagles have achieved repeated success in college football. On November 16, 1940, BC's
Frank Leahy
Francis William Leahy (August 27, 1908 – June 21, 1973) was an American football player, coach, college athletics administrator, and professional sports executive. He served as the head football coach at Boston College from 1939 to 1940 and at ...
-coached championship team took a win from two-season undefeated Georgetown University in the final seconds, in a game that renowned sportswriter
Grantland Rice called the greatest ever played.
Two of Boston College's most famous football victories came in dramatic fashion, on the final play of the game. On November 23, 1984, before a national audience on
CBS,
Doug Flutie
Douglas Richard Flutie (born October 23, 1962) is an American former football quarterback whose professional career spanned 21 seasons. He played 12 seasons in the National Football League (NFL), eight seasons in the Canadian Football League (C ...
threw a
Hail Mary
The Hail Mary ( la, Ave Maria) is a traditional Christian prayer addressing Mary, the mother of Jesus. The prayer is based on two biblical passages featured in the Gospel of Luke: the Angel Gabriel's visit to Mary (the Annunciation) and Mary's ...
to Gerard Phelan for a 47–45 victory over the University of Miami at the
Orange Bowl. The Eagles finished the
1984 season with a 10–2 record, defeating the University of Houston in the
Cotton Bowl. The team completed the season with a #5 rank in the AP poll. Flutie was awarded the
Heisman Trophy
The Heisman Memorial Trophy (usually known colloquially as the Heisman Trophy or The Heisman) is awarded annually to the most outstanding player in college football. Winners epitomize great ability combined with diligence, perseverance, and hard ...
, the only Eagle to date so honored. On November 20, 1993, the Eagles beat undefeated archrival Notre Dame 41–39 on a 41-yard field goal by
David Gordon as time expired, preventing the Fighting Irish a berth in the national championship game.
In 2007, the Eagles reached the #2 rank in both the AP and Coaches' Poll as well as the
BCS rankings, led by
Matt Ryan. Ryan was awarded the 2007
Johnny Unitas Golden Arm Award, presented annually to the nation's most outstanding college senior quarterback. He was selected third in the
2008 NFL Draft by the
Atlanta Falcons
The Atlanta Falcons are a professional American football team based in Atlanta. The Falcons compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member club of the league's National Football Conference (NFC) South division. The Falcons joined th ...
, making him the highest-chosen BC player in
NFL Draft
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history.
The Eagles annually wear red bandanna-themed uniforms in honor of fallen
September 11, 2001
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hero
Welles Crowther, class of 1999. Crowther, who played on BC's lacrosse team, was an equity trader who died saving the lives of at least 10 people during the 2001 terrorist attack on the World Trade Center in New York City. He used a red bandanna that he often carried to keep from breathing in smoke and debris.
Fight Song: "For Boston"
"For Boston" is claimed to be America's oldest college
fight song, composed by T. J. Hurley in 1885. It has two verses but the most commonly sung one is the first verse. Boston-based band
Dropkick Murphys
Dropkick Murphys are an American Celtic punk band formed in Quincy, Massachusetts in 1996. Singer and bassist Ken Casey has been the band's only constant member. Other current members include drummer Matt Kelly (1997– ), singer Al Barr (1 ...
covered this song on their album ''
Sing Loud, Sing Proud!''. Changes have been made to the song, including reworking the phrase "for here men are men" into "for here all are one" in the first verse.
Notable persons
BC students were universally called "Heightsmen" until 1925 when Caitlin Beckman became the first "Heightswoman" to receive a BC degree. "Heightsonian" was originally conceived as a way to gender neutralize the original term "Heightsmen", though "Eagles", once exclusively used for members of the university's athletics teams, is more commonly used.
The term "Golden Eagles" refers strictly to BC graduates who have celebrated their 50th anniversary reunion. "Double Eagles" refer to alumni who attended
Boston College High School
, motto_translation = ''So they may know You.''
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and graduated from the college and "Triple Eagles" are those alumni who are also graduates of a graduate program.
There are over 179,000 alumni in over 120 countries around the world.
[ Boston College students have enjoyed success in winning prestigious post-graduate fellowships and awards, including recent Rhodes, Marshall, Mellon, Fulbright, Truman, Churchill, and Goldwater scholarships, among others. BC's yield rate for Fulbright awards is the highest in the country. In 2007, students in the German department were awarded 13 Fulbright scholarships, five more than the previous highest number from a single department. Although formal numbers are not kept, and the claim cannot be confirmed, the number of award winners from one department to study in a specific country is considered by some scholars to be the highest in the 60-year history of the Fulbright program.]
File:SpeakerO'Neill.jpg, Tip O'Neill
Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives
1936
File:John Kerry official Secretary of State portrait.jpg, John F. Kerry
U.S. Secretary of State
U.S. Senator
The United States Senate is the upper chamber of the United States Congress, with the House of Representatives being the lower chamber. Together they compose the national bicameral legislature of the United States.
The composition and p ...
2004 Democratic Presidential nominee
J.D. 1976
File:Nicholas Burns, U.S. Ambassador.jpg, R. Nicholas Burns
United States Ambassador to China
The United States Ambassador to China is the chief American diplomat to People's Republic of China (PRC). The United States has sent diplomatic representatives to China since 1844, when Caleb Cushing, as commissioner, negotiated the Treaty of ...
Former United States Permanent Representative to NATO
The United States Permanent Representative to NATO (commonly called the U.S. Ambassador to NATO) is the official representative of the United States to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. The Representative has the rank of full ambassador a ...
1978
File:Moniz official portrait standing.jpg, Ernest Moniz
U.S. Secretary of Energy
1966
File:Cellucci paul.jpg, Paul Cellucci
Governor of Massachusetts
The governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts is the chief executive officer of the government of Massachusetts. The governor is the head of the state cabinet and the commander-in-chief of the commonwealth's military forces.
Massachusett ...
U.S. Ambassador to Canada
1970, J.D. 1973
File:Dannel Malloy 2016.jpg, Dannel P. Malloy
Governor of Connecticut
The governor of Connecticut is the head of government of Connecticut, and the commander-in-chief of the state's military forces. The governor has a duty to enforce state laws, and the power to either approve or veto bills passed by the Connecti ...
1977, J.D. 1980
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U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services
U.S. Representative
U.S. Ambassador to Ireland
LL.B 1956
File:Marty Walsh.jpg, Marty Walsh
U.S. Secretary of Labor
Mayor of Boston
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2009
File:J. F. Fitzgerald.jpg, John F. Fitzgerald
First Irish-Catholic Mayor of Boston
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Grandfather of John F. Kennedy
John Fitzgerald Kennedy (May 29, 1917 – November 22, 1963), often referred to by his initials JFK and the nickname Jack, was an American politician who served as the 35th president of the United States from 1961 until his assassination i ...
1885
File:Joeseph E. Brennan.jpg, Joseph E. Brennan
70th Governor of Maine
The governor of Maine is the head of government of the U.S. state of Maine. Before Maine was admitted to the Union in 1820, Maine was part of Massachusetts and the governor of Massachusetts was chief executive.
The current governor of Maine is ...
1958
File:Ambassador Scott Brown.jpg, Scott Brown
Former United States Senator
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The composition and powe ...
for Massachusetts
Massachusetts (Massachusett: ''Muhsachuweesut Massachusett_writing_systems.html" ;"title="nowiki/> məhswatʃəwiːsət.html" ;"title="Massachusett writing systems">məhswatʃəwiːsət">Massachusett writing systems">məhswatʃəwiːsət'' En ...
J.D. 1985
File:Edward Markey, official portrait, 114th Congress.jpg, Ed Markey
Edward John Markey (born July 11, 1946) is an American lawyer, politician, and former Army reservist who has served as the junior United States senator from Massachusetts since 2013. A member of the Democratic Party, he was the U.S. represent ...
United States Senator
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The composition and powe ...
from Massachusetts
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1968, J.D. 1972
File:Stephen Lynch 2019.jpg, Stephen F. Lynch
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
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from Massachusetts
J.D. 1991
File:Mike Capuano.jpg, Mike Capuano
Former member of the U.S. House of Representatives
The United States House of Representatives, often referred to as the House of Representatives, the U.S. House, or simply the House, is the lower chamber of the United States Congress, with the Senate being the upper chamber. Together they ...
from Massachusetts
J.D. 1977
File:Archbishop of the Military Services visits ROK 150826-F-BX159-001 (cropped).jpg, The Most Reverend Timothy Broglio Archbishop of the Archdiocese for Military Services 1973
File:Leonard Nimoy by Gage Skidmore.jpg, Leonard Nimoy
Leonard Simon Nimoy (; March 26, 1931 – February 27, 2015) was an American actor, famed for playing Spock in the ''Star Trek'' franchise for almost 50 years. This includes originating Spock in the original ''Star Trek'' series in 1966, the ...
Actor
1952
File:EdMcMahon05.jpg, Ed McMahon
Edward Leo Peter McMahon Jr. (March 6, 1923 – June 23, 2009) was an American announcer, game show host, comedian, actor, singer, and combat aviator. McMahon and Johnny Carson began their association in their first TV series, the ABC game sho ...
Comedian and television presenter
''(Did not graduate)''
File:Amy Poehler (8894155873) (cropped).jpg, Amy Poehler
Amy Poehler (; born September 16, 1971) is an American comedian, actress, writer, producer, and director. After studying improv at Chicago's Second City and ImprovOlympic in the early 1990s, Poehler co-founded the improvisational-comedy tro ...
Actress and comedian
1993
File:Chris ODonnell Max Payne 2008.jpg, Chris O'Donnell
Actor
1992
File:Elisabeth Hasselbeck in Donna Karan, 2010.jpg, Elisabeth Hasselbeck
Television personality and talk show host
1999
File:Phil Schiller at AWDC 2012.jpg, Phil Schiller
Philip W. Schiller (born June 8, 1960) is an Apple Fellow at Apple Inc. He is a prominent figure in Apple's keynotes and has been a member of the company's executive team since Steve Jobs returned to Apple in 1997. In 2020 he became the first p ...
Vice president of Apple Inc.
B.S. 1982
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CEO of Palo Alto Networks
Former senior executive at Google
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1995
See also
* Hopkins House (Boston College)
* List of Jesuit sites
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Nearly all these sites have bee ...
* List of presidents of Boston College
Notes
References
External links
*
Boston College Athletics website
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Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities
Catholic universities and colleges in Massachusetts
1863 establishments in Massachusetts
Educational institutions established in 1863
Gothic Revival architecture in Massachusetts
Jesuit universities and colleges in the United States