BU

BU may stand for:

• Backup (sometimes written as B/U)
• Bus Interface Unit, also called BIU
• Brabender Units (used in flour anaylsis)
• 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
• Braathens, whose IATA airline designator is BU
• "Brilliant Uncirculated" or "Beautiful Uncirculated", in numismatic coin grading
• Builder (US Navy), a Seabee occupational rating in the U.S. Navy
• Bulgaria, whose WMO, FIPS Pub 10-4 and obsolete NATO diagram country codes are BU
• Burma, ISO 3166-3 country code BU, replaced in 1989 by the ISO 3166-1 codes MM and MMR (for "Myanmar")
• Business unit, a division within a company, as in strategic business unit
• BU, equal to terrawatt hour (TWh), a unit of energy used in India to measure annual power generation. BU mean billion units, where one unit is a kilowatt hour (kWh). Different from BTU.
• Broken up, referring to the scrapping of a decommissioned ship.

Bu may refer to:

• -Bu, a common shorthand for butyl, a functional group in organic chemistry
• Bû, a settlement in France
• bu, a Japanese unit for measuring length equivalent to 3.03 millimeters
• bù a Chinese unit for measuring length equivalent to 1.66 meters
• Bu, a clay pot used as an instrument in traditional Korean music
• Bushel, a unit of capacity

Universities

In India:

• Bhavnagar University, Gujrat
• Bundelkhand University, Jhansi

In Turkey:

• Bilkent University, Ankara
• Boğaziçi University, Istanbul

In Uganda

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

In the United Kingdom:

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

In the United States:

• Barry University, Miami, Florida
• Baylor University, Waco, Texas
• Bellevue University, Bellevue, Nebraska
• Binghamton University, Binghamton, New York
• Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania
• Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts
• Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island

In other countries:

• Bahria University, Islamabad, Karachi and Lahore, Pakistan
• Bangkok University, Bangkok, Thailand
• Benadir University, Mogadishu, Somalia
• Bicol University, Philippines
• BRAC University, Bangladesh
• Brandon University, Manitoba, Canada
• Hong Kong Baptist University, New Kowloon, Hong Kong
• University of Belgrade, Serbia

See also

• Buu (disambiguation)