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

 * 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
 * $$\operatorname{BU}(n)$$, Classifying space for unitary group
 * $$\operatorname{BU}$$, 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)
 * 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

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 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