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
  • <math>\operatorname{BU}(n)</math>, Classifying space for unitary group
  • <math>\operatorname{BU}</math>, 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)