A bearing assembly for a turbocharger includes a turbine wheel-side ball bearing at a first axial end of a tubular body, a compressor impeller-side ball bearing at a second axial end of the tubular body, and a bearing housing. The bearing housing includes a first opposed wall opposed to an axially outer side of an outer race of the turbine wheel-side ball bearing, and a second opposed wall opposed to an axially outer side of an outer race of the compressor impeller-side ball bearing. The outer race of the turbine wheel-side ball bearing and the outer race of the compressor impeller-side ball bearing have axially outer end surfaces which are axially outwardly displaced from respective axial end surfaces of the tubular body so that oil films are present between the respective outer races and the corresponding opposed walls.