BU

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Bu may refer to:

• Bû, a settlement in France
• Bū, a character in Dragon Ball media
• -Bu, a common shorthand for butyl, a functional group in organic chemistry
• Bushel, a unit of capacity
• Bureau, as in public administration
• bu (分), a Japanese unit for measuring length equivalent to 3.03 millimeters
• Bu (instrument), a clay pot used as an instrument in traditional Korean music

BU may also stand for:

• Backup (sometimes written as B/U)
• Biological unit, the smallest number of protein molecules which form a biologically active unit
• Braathens, whose IATA airline designator is BU
• "Brilliant Uncirculated" or "Beautiful Uncirculated", in numismatic coin grading
• Bulgaria, whose WMO, FIPS Pub 10-4 and obsolete NATO digram country codes are BU
• Burma, ISO 3166-3 country code BU, replaced in 1989 by the ISO 3166-1 codes MM and MMR (for "Myanmar")
• Business unit, a division within a company, as in strategic business unit

[edit] Universities

Turkey:

• Bilkent University, Ankara
• Boğaziçi University, Istanbul

United States:

• Boston University, Massachusetts
• Baylor University, Waco, Texas
• Belmont University, Nashville, Tennessee
• Binghamton University, Vestal, New York
• Biola University, La Mirada, California
• Bradley University, Peoria, Illinois
• Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island
• Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania
• Butler University, Indianapolis, Indiana

United Kingdom:

• Birmingham University, central England
• Bangor University, north Wales
• Bournemouth University, Dorset, England

Other countries:

• Brandon University, Manitoba, Canada
• Hong Kong Baptist University, People's Republic of China
• Bhavnagar University, Gujrat, India
• Bahria University, Islamabad, Karachi and Lahore, Pakistan
• Bicol University, Philippines
• University of Belgrade, Serbia
• Benadir University, Mogadishu, Somalia
• BRAC University, Bangladesh

[edit] See also

• Buu (disambiguation)