With BU Virtual, you’ll actively participate in a highly engaging and interactive learning experience, collaborating with a community of students and faculty who contribute a range of insights and backgrounds. As a leading institution recognized for top-tier research and education, our online programs blend course study and real-world experiences to create opportunities to apply what you learn in your career and in your community.
Explore our expanding portfolio of online programs, developed in collaboration with top tier faculty and researchers at Boston University.
The work we are doing today will shape the future of global online education tomorrow. We believe that our work at BU Virtual, which is done in collaboration with our award-winning schools and colleges, brings a new level of innovation, reach, and access to learners around the globe and reinforces our commitment to inclusion at scale. —Wendy Colby, VP and
Associate Provost, BU Virtual
No matter where you are in your life, geography, or career, BU Virtual will help you develop and enhance world-class skills and experiences to succeed in a dynamic and rapidly evolving labor market. And, we provide the unparalleled competitive and reputational advantages that come from being a part of the Boston University global community.
Boston University Virtual meets you where you are today and throughout any stage of your career. We are innovators, educators, entrepreneurs, and university leaders seeking to bring BU to the service of the world and the world closer to the vibrant BU community.
Boston University Virtual works in close collaboration with the schools and colleges across BU to provide innovative, high-quality online programs in areas ranging from business and public health to social work, occupational therapy, education, computer science, and more.
In the inaugural episode of BU Virtual Connects, BU Virtual Associate Provost Wendy Colby speaks with Nelson Baker, Ph.D., interim dean of Georgia Tech’s College of Lifetime Learning, who explores the importance of listening, asking bold “What if?” questions, and driving innovation in higher education through online-at-scale degrees and lifelong learning initiatives.
This episode features Carissa Little, Associate Dean at Stanford, who reflects on her journey from Boston University to leading online education innovation, emphasizing the importance of building effective online units, harnessing technology, and fostering human connection and collaboration to expand higher education’s impact.
This episode features Kamran Malik, a former EY partner now at Korn Ferry, who challenges Higher Education to rethink its role in preparing a productive workforce amid rapid industry and technology shifts, urging universities to embrace bold, future-focused partnerships with industry.
Wendy Colby speaks with Karen Markel, Founder of P3 EDU and Professor of Management at the College of Business at the University of Colorado Colorado Springs, about the importance of Business knowledge within universities and how partnerships can drive innovation
In this episode, Wendy Colby speaks with Meredith Rosenberg, Co-Founder and Partner at NU Advisory Partners about what it takes to drive and deliver change at a university.
Inside Higher Ed talks with newly minted MBA Kaitlin Dumont about her experience as an adult learner in BU's new fully online business master's program.
Wheelock College of Education & Human Development has added a new online master’s program to its offerings: the Master of Education (EdM) in Education for Equity and Social Justice.
Online learning for Boston University officially started 20 years ago, when Metropolitan College began offering programs way back in 2002. Growth for BU’s online programming was slow and steady over the next two decades. Now it’s full speed ahead.