BU

BU, Bu and variations may refer to:

In business

• Business unit, a division within a company, as in strategic business unit
• Braathens (IATA airline designator)
• British United Shoe Machinery, Leicester UK
• Bücker Flugzeugbau, a German aircraft manufacturer whose planes were designated 'Bü'

Places

• Bû, a settlement in France
• Bulgaria (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
• BU(n), in mathematics, the classifying space for the unitary group U(n)
• Backup, in information technology
• Bethesda unit, a measure of inhibitor activity relating to a coagulation factor
• 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
• Billion Units, used in India to mean billion kWh ie equal to one TeraWatt-hour (see Kilowatt-hour#Multiples)

Units of measure

• bu, a Japanese unit of length, equivalent to 3.03 millimeters
• bù (步), a Chinese unit of length, equivalent to 1.66 meters
• Bushel, a unit of capacity

Universities

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

Turkey

• Bilkent University, Ankara
• Boğaziçi University, Istanbul

Uganda

• Bugema University, a university in Uganda affiliated with the Seventh-day Adventist Church
• Busitema University, Tororo, Uganda
• Busoga University, Jinja, Uganda

United Kingdom

• Bangor University, north Wales
• Birmingham University or University of Birmingham, central England
• Bournemouth University, Dorset, England
• Brunel University, London, England

United States

• Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts

Other countries

• Benha University, Egypt
• Brandon University, Manitoba, Canada
• Bishop's University, Quebec, Canada
• Hong Kong Baptist University, Kowloon Tsai, Hong Kong
• Bahria University, Islamabad, Karachi and Lahore, Pakistan
• Bicol University, Philippines
• University of Belgrade, Serbia
• Benadir University, Mogadishu, Somalia
• Bangkok University, Bangkok Metropolitan Region, Thailand

Other uses

• 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)