Boston College

Chestnut Hill, MA
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    32 faculty · 97 courses · data as of 2026-07-02

    Communication and Media Studies14 faculty avg h-index 5.7 #5 of 12 in Communication
    Michael Keith, Professor Emeritus h-index 10
    Notable: “Am radio: The status and struggle” (1993) · 40 citations
    Marilyn Malteski, Professor Emerita h-index 4
    Notable: “Jerry Springer and the Wages of Fin‐syn: The Rise of Deregulation and the Decline of TV Talk” (2000) · 10 citations
    Kyoung-yim Kim, Associate Professor of the Practice h-index 3
    Sport Sociology, Feminist Transnational/Postcolonial Studies of Sport and Physical Cultural Studies
    Notable: “Feminist Cultural Studies: Uncertainties and Possibilities” (2015) · 38 citations
    Anne Sears, Part-Time Faculty
    Clinical, Counseling and Applied Psychology11 faculty · 67 courses avg h-index 28.8 #11 of 92 in Psychology
    Elizabeth Kensinger, Professor h-index 69
    Notable: “Memory enhancement for emotional words: Are emotional words more vividly remembered than neutral words?” (2003) · 918 citations
    Liane Young, Professor h-index 59
    Notable: “Damage to the prefrontal cortex increases utilitarian moral judgements” (2007) · 1,561 citations
    Gorica Petrovich, Professor h-index 32
    Notable: “What is the amygdala?” (1998) · 1,350 citations
    Maureen Ritchey, Professor h-index 32
    Notable: “Two cortical systems for memory-guided behaviour” (2012) · 1,467 citations
    Courses: Science of Emotion · Memory in Everyday Life · Thinking about Feelings · Brain, Mind, and Behavior · Self, Mind, and Society · Introduction to Neuropsychological Disorders +61 more
    Economics3 faculty · 30 courses avg h-index 19.3 #39 of 104 in Economics
    Donald Cox, Professor, Director of Undergraduate Studies h-index 30
    Notable: “Motives for Private Income Transfers” (1987) · 1,223 citations
    Mehmet Ekmekci, Professor, Director of Graduate Studies h-index 17
    Notable: “Sustainable reputations with rating systems” (2011) · 104 citations
    Robert Murphy, Chair, Professor h-index 11
    Notable: “Capital mobility and the relationship between saving and investment rates in OECD countries” (1984) · 275 citations
    Courses: Mathematics for Economists · Microeconomic Theory I · Microeconomic Theory II · Macroeconomic Theory I · Macroeconomic Theory II · Statistics +24 more
    Government3 faculty avg h-index 25 #31 of 100 in Political Science
    Christopher Kelly, Professor Emeritus h-index 46
    Notable: “Large language models encode clinical knowledge” (2023) · 3,221 citations
    Alan Wolfe, Professor Emeritus h-index 23
    Notable: “Sources of the Self: The Making of the Modern Identity.” (1990) · 1,765 citations
    Christopher Bruell, Professor Emeritus h-index 6
    Notable: “Thucydides' View of Athenian Imperialism” (1974) · 30 citations
    Neurobiology and Neurosciences1 faculty avg h-index 30
    Peter Clote, Professor h-index 30
    Notable: “DiANNA: a web server for disulfide connectivity prediction” (2005) · 380 citations

    Faculty counts are directory headcounts; the named list may be a subset. h-index shown only for ORCID-backed or high-confidence OpenAlex matches. Partial — enrichment ongoing.

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    About Boston College. Boston College in Chestnut Hill, MA reports an overall acceptance rate of 12.6%, an early-round acceptance rate of 30.0%, an SAT middle 50% of 1440–1520, a class size of 2,350, and a yield of 45.0% based on the most recent Common Data Set filings. Catholic Jesuit university. EA rate ~30% vs 10% RD. Strong for business and pre-law.