Boston University Gift Shop

The Boston University gathers 30.000 undergraduate and graduate students from 140 countries. It is the 4th largest employer in the city with the same name. The academic life here is like a hive: with ten thousand faculty and staff, sixteen schools and colleges and 250 fields of study, the Boston University sustains high standards of education.

For those interested in finding out more they can make a tour of the university, and so they won’t leave empty-handed, there is also a gift shop there. Let’s see what you can find.

On the online option of the store you can purchase gifts for the home, gifts for the office, diploma frames and lithographs, mugs and glasses, leisure, personal gifts, watches and miscellaneous.

In the gifts for the home section you have the possibility of buying diverse types of clocks (alarm, weather station, Napoleon III mantle clock, Moonface Mantle clock, Presidential II, Monaco Gold) for the interior, men wallets, coaster set in black leather, bookends, desk lamps, pens (in different colors and shapes), set of candleholders, basically here are the typical items that pop into mind when you think of gifts inspired by the academic life.

Boston University Gift Shop (Source: a248.e.akamai.net)

In the gifts for the office area, you can expect at more or less the same thing as above, meaning pens, card holders, note pad desk set, pencil caddy, piano wood letter opener, mouse pad, briefcases, portfolios, clocks, paperweights.

At the diploma frames and lithographs area you can find just that – there’s no need to detail here. As well as in the mugs and glasses area, where, as expected you can choose between different types of mugs and glasses.

For the leisure, the Boston University gift shop gives you some suggestions: divot repair tool, magnifying glass, garment travel bag, computer – overnight bag, clocks (looks like time is precious as the Boston University emphasize it) and world globes.

For the personal gift section the BU has thought of lapel pins, money clips/card holders, tie bars, bookmarks, key rings, cufflinks, blazer buttons and that’s about it here.

Boston University Gift Shop (Source: a248.e.akamai.net)

In the watches section there’s no need for commentaries. And in the miscellaneous section things don’t differ that much of what we’ve just talked here: wallets, pendants, necklaces, bracelets, trinket box, sterling decanter, medallion barrel.