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Beloit College
Beloit College, founded 1846-1847 in Beloit, Wisconsin, is the state's oldest college, a private liberal arts institution known for the 1960s Beloit Plan, museums, international education, and high financial aid, with 192 fall 2026 deposits.
Bemidji State University
Bemidji State University (BSU), a public Minnesota State university on Lake Bemidji founded in 1919 as Bemidji Normal School, enrolls about 5,000 students in 70 undergraduate areas and eight graduate degrees, with noted online, forestry, and indigenous studies programs.
Benjamin Bolger
Benjamin B. Bolger, born 1975, American perpetual student and admissions consultant with 14 to 16 advanced degrees from Oxford, Cambridge, Stanford, Columbia, Harvard, and others, despite severe dyslexia.
Bennington College
Bennington College: private liberal arts college in Bennington, Vermont, founded 1932 as a women's college, co-educational since 1969. Known for the self-designed Plan curriculum and the annual Field Work Term internship requirement.
Bentley University
Bentley University, formerly Bentley College and the Bentley School of Accounting and Finance, is a private business university in Waltham, Massachusetts, founded in Boston in 1917 by accountant Harry C. Bentley.
Beong-Soo Kim
Beong-Soo Kim is an American attorney and the 13th president of the University of Southern California, appointed February 2026 after serving as interim president and, before that, USC general counsel and a federal frauds prosecutor in Los Angeles.
Berea College
Berea College, founded 1855 by John G. Fee in Berea, Kentucky, is the South's first interracial, coeducational college, tuition-free since 1892, a federally recognized Work College where all students work 10 hours weekly, serving low-income Appalachian students.
Berklee College of Music
Berklee College of Music, founded 1945 in Boston as Schillinger House by Lawrence Berk and renamed Berklee in 1954, is a private contemporary music college, the first U.S. school founded on jazz study, now part of a 2016 merger with Boston Conservatory.
Berry College
Berry College: private liberal arts college in Mount Berry, Georgia, founded by Martha Berry in 1902; 27,000-acre campus; LifeWorks paid student work program; ninth president Sandeep Mazumder since July 2025.
Beta Theta Pi
Beta Theta Pi (ΒΘΠ, "Beta"), a social college fraternity founded August 8, 1839 at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio; oldest of the Miami Triad; over 215,000 lifetime members; linked to the 2017 Timothy Piazza hazing death at Penn State.
Bethany College (West Virginia)
Bethany College (West Virginia): private liberal arts college in Bethany, Brooke County, founded by Alexander Campbell and chartered March 2, 1840; the oldest degree-granting institution in West Virginia, non-sectarian with Disciples of Christ ties, NCAA Division III Bison.
Bethune–Cookman University
Bethune–Cookman University (B-CU), a private United Methodist-affiliated HBCU in Daytona Beach, Florida, founded by Mary McLeod Bethune in 1904; SACSCOC-accredited, NCAA Division I SWAC member since 2021, led by 8th president Albert Mosley since July 2025.
Bids to college bowl games
Bids to college bowl games: how FBS teams earn NCAA bowl eligibility (6-6 or better, APR-based 5-7 alternates), conference tie-ins, the Bowl Coalition/Alliance/BCS eras, and CFP selection committee assignments.
Big 12 Conference
The Big 12 Conference is a 16-university NCAA Division I athletic conference founded in 1996, headquartered in Irving, Texas, under Commissioner Brett Yormark; a Power Four league with an automatic College Football Playoff football berth.
Big East Conference (1979–2013)
The Big East Conference (1979–2013) was a Division I athletic conference founded by Dave Gavitt with seven Eastern basketball schools, later added football in 1991, peaked with 11 NCAA bids in 2011, and split in 2013 into the American Athletic Conference and a new Catholic-school Big East.
Big Eight Conference
Big Eight Conference, a former NCAA Division I-A athletic conference descended from the 1907 MVIAA; members included Nebraska, Oklahoma, Kansas, Missouri, Colorado, Iowa State, Kansas State, and Oklahoma State; dissolved in 1996 to form the Big 12 with four Southwest Conference schools.
Big Sky Conference
Big Sky Conference, founded 1963 and named from A.B. Guthrie's novel The Big Sky, is an NCAA Division I FCS conference of 11 full members in seven western states, 16 sports, and 13 NCAA team championships, headquartered in Farmington, Utah.
Big South Conference
Big South Conference: NCAA Division I athletic conference founded August 21, 1983 in the southeastern US; nine members in North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia; 18 championship sports; football via the OVC-Big South Football Association.
Big Ten Conference
Big Ten Conference, an NCAA Division I collegiate athletic conference founded in 1896 in Chicago; 18 member universities since 2024, 28 sponsored sports, $1.47 billion FY2025 revenue, and the Big Ten Academic Alliance research consortium.
Big West Conference
Big West Conference (formerly Pacific Coast Athletic Association), NCAA Division I conference founded July 1, 1969, headquartered in Irvine, California. 12 full members in 2026-27 after adding California Baptist, Sacramento State, and Utah Valley; Hawai'i departs 2026, UC San Diego and UC Santa Barbara leave for the WCC in 2027.
Bilkent University
Bilkent University (Bilkent Üniversitesi) is Turkey's first private, nonprofit foundation university, founded October 20, 1984 in Ankara by İhsan Doğramacı, admitting 386 students in 1986, now ~12,500 students, 30 undergraduate and 59 graduate programs.
Binghamton University
Binghamton University (SUNY at Binghamton) is a public R1 research university in Vestal, New York, founded in 1946 as Triple Cities College, renamed Harpur College in 1950, and a SUNY University Center since 1965.
Biola University
Biola University, formerly Biola College and the Bible Institute of Los Angeles, is a private interdenominational Christian university in La Mirada, California, founded in 1908 in downtown Los Angeles.
Birkbeck, University of London
Birkbeck, University of London, is a public research university in central London, known for its evening teaching model, with classes often held between 6pm and 9pm.
Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra
Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra (BIT Mesra), a deemed university in Ranchi, Jharkhand, founded 1955 by B.M. Birla; engineering, pharmacy and science programs diploma to Ph.D., seven Indian and two offshore campuses.
Black Mountain College
Black Mountain College (1933–1957) was a nonaccredited, faculty-owned experimental liberal arts college near Asheville, North Carolina, founded by John Andrew Rice, led artistically by Bauhaus emigres Josef and Anni Albers, with about 1,200 students and alumni including Cage, Cunningham, and Rauschenberg.
Blinn College
Blinn College is a public community college district based in Brenham, Texas, founded in 1883 as Mission Institute. Known for its Texas A&M TEAM co-enrollment program, six campuses, and Texas-leading transfer rate.
Bob Jones University
Bob Jones University (BJU), a Christian liberal arts university in Greenville, South Carolina founded in 1927 by evangelist Bob Jones; known for its Bob Jones Jr./III presidencies, the 1983 tax-exemption case over its interracial dating ban (rescinded 2000), and 2017 regional accreditation.
Bocconi University
Bocconi University (Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi), private non-profit Milan university founded 1902 by Ferdinando Bocconi; Italy's first economics degree; leading in economics, management, finance, law, data science, AI.
Bodleian Library
The Bodleian Library, or Bodley's Library, is the principal research library of the University of Oxford, opened in 1602 after Sir Thomas Bodley refurbished a ruined medieval library.