# BU

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**BU**, **Bu** and variations may refer to:

## In business

- [Business unit](/source/Business_unit), a division within a company, as in strategic business unit
- [Braathens ASA](/source/Braathens_ASA) (IATA airline designator)
- [British United Shoe Machinery](/source/British_United_Shoe_Machinery), Leicester UK
- [Bücker Flugzeugbau](/source/B%C3%BCcker_Flugzeugbau), a German aircraft manufacturer whose planes were designated 'Bü'

## Places

- Bu, a hamlet on [Wyre](/source/Wyre,_Orkney) in the Orkney Islands, Scotland
- [Bû](/source/B%C3%BB), a settlement in France
- [Bulgaria](/source/Bulgaria) (WMO and LOC MARC country code)
- [Burma](/source/Burma) (Myanmar) (former ISO3166-1 country code)

## In mathematics, science, and technology

- [-Bu](/source/-Bu), a common shorthand for butyl, a functional group in organic chemistry
- \operatorname{BU}(n), [Classifying space for unitary group](/source/Classifying_space_for_U(n))
- \operatorname{BU}, [Classifying space for infinite unitary group](/source/Classifying_space_for_U)
- [Backup](/source/Backup), in information technology
- [Bethesda unit](/source/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](/source/Kilowatt-hour#Multiples))
- [Biological unit](/source/Biological_unit), the smallest number of protein molecules which form a biologically active unit
- [Brabender unit](/source/Brabender_unit), a unit of flour analysis measured by a [farinograph](/source/Farinograph)

## Units of measure

- bu, a [Japanese unit of length](/source/Japanese_units_of_measurement), equivalent to 3.03 millimetres
- bù (步), a [Chinese unit of length](/source/Chinese_units_of_measurement), equivalent to 1.66 metres
- [Bushel](/source/Bushel), a unit of capacity

## Universities

### United States

- [Boston University](/source/Boston_University), Boston, Massachusetts
- [Baker University](/source/Baker_University), Baldwin City, Kansas
- [Barry University](/source/Barry_University), Miami Shores, Florida
- [Baylor University](/source/Baylor_University), Waco, Texas
- [Belhaven University](/source/Belhaven_University), Jackson, Mississippi
- [Bellarmine University](/source/Bellarmine_University), Louisville, Kentucky
- [Bellevue University](/source/Bellevue_University), Bellevue, Nebraska
- [Belmont University](/source/Belmont_University), Nashville, Tennessee
- [Bentley University](/source/Bentley_University), Waltham, Massachusetts
- [Bethel University (Indiana)](/source/Bethel_University_(Indiana)), Mishawaka, Indiana
- [Bethel University (Minnesota)](/source/Bethel_University_(Minnesota)), Arden Hills, Minnesota
- [Bethel University (Tennessee)](/source/Bethel_University_(Tennessee)), McKenzie, Tennessee
- [Bethesda University](/source/Bethesda_University), Anaheim, California
- [Binghamton University](/source/Binghamton_University), Vestal, New York
- [Biola University](/source/Biola_University), La Mirada, California
- [Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania](/source/Bloomsburg_University_of_Pennsylvania)
- [Bluffton University](/source/Bluffton_University), Bluffton, Ohio
- [Bradley University](/source/Bradley_University), Peoria, Illinois
- [Brandeis University](/source/Brandeis_University), Waltham, Massachusetts
- [Brandman University](/source/Brandman_University), Irvine, California
- [Brenau University](/source/Brenau_University), Gainesville, Georgia
- [Brescia University](/source/Brescia_University), Owensboro, Kentucky
- [Brown University](/source/Brown_University), Providence, Rhode Island
- [Bryant University](/source/Bryant_University), Smithfield, Rhode Island
- [Bucknell University](/source/Bucknell_University), Lewisburg, Pennsylvania
- [Bushnell University](/source/Bushnell_University), Eugene, Oregon
- [Butler University](/source/Butler_University), Indianapolis, Indiana

### United Kingdom

- [Bangor University](/source/Bangor_University), north Wales
- [Birmingham University](/source/Birmingham_University) or University of Birmingham, central England
- [Bournemouth University](/source/Bournemouth_University), Dorset, England
- [Brunel University](/source/Brunel_University), London, England

### Turkey

- [Bilkent University](/source/Bilkent_University), Ankara
- [Boğaziçi University](/source/Bo%C4%9Fazi%C3%A7i_University), Istanbul

### Bangladesh

- [BRAC University](/source/BRAC_University), Bangladesh
- [Barisal University](/source/Barisal_University), Bangladesh
- [Bangladesh University](/source/Bangladesh_University), Mohammadpur, Dhaka, Bangladesh

### India

- [Bangalore University](/source/Bangalore_University), Bangalore, India
- [Bhavnagar University](/source/Bhavnagar_University), Gujarat, India
- [Bundelkhand University](/source/Bundelkhand_University), Jhansi, India
- [Bharathiar University](/source/Bharathiar_University), Coimbatore, India
- [Bharathidasan University](/source/Bharathidasan_University), Tiruchirapalli, India

### Uganda

- [Bugema University](/source/Bugema_University), a university in Uganda affiliated with the Seventh-day Adventist Church
- [Busitema University](/source/Busitema_University), Tororo, Uganda
- [Busoga University](/source/Busoga_University), Jinja, Uganda

### Other regions

- [Benha University](/source/Benha_University), Benha, Egypt
- [Brandon University](/source/Brandon_University), Manitoba, Canada
- [Bishop's University](/source/Bishop's_University), Quebec, Canada
- [Hong Kong Baptist University](/source/Hong_Kong_Baptist_University), Kowloon, Hong Kong, China
- [Bahria University](/source/Bahria_University), Islamabad, Karachi and Lahore, Pakistan
- [Bicol University](/source/Bicol_University), Albay, Philippines
- [University of Belgrade](/source/University_of_Belgrade), Belgrade, Serbia
- [Benadir University](/source/Benadir_University), Mogadishu, Somalia
- [Bangkok University](/source/Bangkok_University), Bangkok Metropolitan Region, Thailand
- [Botho University](/source/Botho_University), Gaborone, Botswana

## Other uses

- [Art Blakey](/source/Art_Blakey), nicknamed "Bu"
- [Bu Yunchaokete](/source/Bu_Yunchaokete), Chinese tennis player
- [Bu language](/source/Bu_language)
- [Bu (instrument)](/source/Bu_(instrument)), a traditional Korean musical instrument
- [Bu (surname)](/source/Bu_(surname)), a Chinese surname
- Brilliant Uncirculated, or Beautiful Uncirculated, in numismatic [coin grading](/source/Coin_grading)
- [Builder (US Navy)](/source/Builder_(US_Navy)), a Seabee occupational rating in the U.S. Navy
- *[Bu, Kasih Suci](/source/Bu,_Kasih_Suci)* or *Bu*, a 2019 Malaysian Malay-language family drama film

## See also

- [Buu (disambiguation)](/source/Buu_(disambiguation))

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