Bowdoin College

Bowdoin College

Bowdoin College /ˈboʊdɨn/, founded in 1794, is a private liberal arts college located in the coastal New England town of Brunswick, Maine. As of 2010, U.S. News and World Report ranks Bowdoin sixth among liberal arts colleges in the United States. The college enrolls approximately 1,700 students and has been coeducational since 1971. It offers 33 majors and 4 additional minors; the academic year consists of two four-course semesters, and the student-faculty ratio is 9:1.

Brunswick is located on the shores of Casco Bay and the Androscoggin River, 12 miles north of Freeport, Maine, and 28 miles north of Portland, Maine. In addition to its Brunswick campus, Bowdoin also operates a 118 acre (478,000 m²) coastal studies center on Orrs Island in Harpswell, Maine and a 200 acre (809,000 m²) scientific field station on Kent Island, in the Bay of Fundy.

Bowdoin College Rankings in 2010

• TOP 100 PRIVATE COLLEGES RANKING: 16th
• TOP 100 LIBERAL ART UNIVERSITY / COLLEGE IN 2010: 6th
• BEST UNDERGRADUATE TEACHING PROGRAM RANKING IN U.S.

• FORBES AMERICAN’S BEST COLLEGE RANKINGS IN 2011
• TOP LIBERAL ARTS COLLEGE RANKING IN 2011

Bowdoin College Tuition and Fees

Schedule of Fees for 2010-2011

• Tuition $41,150
• Room $5,295
• Board $6,020
• Student Activities Fee $415
• Total $52,880

Schools of Bowdoin College

Departmental and program majors are offered in the following areas:

Bowdoin College News

• Okbari Middle Eastern Ensemble to open OHA concert series - Thu, 17 May 2012
  

  Opera House Arts announced that the Okbari Middle Eastern Ensemble, Maine musicians specializing in music from the Arab world, Turkey, and the Armenian Diaspora, will open its new summer concert series on Saturday, May 26, at 7 p.m. at the Stonington Opera House.

• Meet Oak Hill's new Head Librarian - Tue, 15 May 2012
  

  Patrons of the Will Hampton Branch of the Austin Public Library have a new librarian in Frank Schmitzer, a 25-year-plus veteran of the Austin Public Library system and the new librarian at the Oak Hill Branch.

• Lantz and Kargul to perform again at historical museum - Thu, 10 May 2012
  

  Violinist Ronald Lantz and pianist Laura Kargul will return to the Sanford-Springvale Historical Museum for a special concert on Saturday, May 12, at 7 p.m. Lantz and Kargul will celebrate Spring with a program of romantic music by French composers, featuring the little-known "Sonata for Violin and Piano," by Jacques de la Presle.

• Samuelson new chair of Maple Street School - Wed, 09 May 2012
  

  Maple Street School has announced that Matthew Samuelson is the new chair of the Maple Street School Board of Trustees.

• Weatherization program off to strong start - Wed, 09 May 2012
  

  It wasn't easy. Thanks to all the volunteers of SeacoastEnergy.org and its all volunteer committee members, vision and persistence have paid off.

• Family honors Marine's legacy with scholarship fund - Wed, 09 May 2012
  

  The late Col. Paul D. LaFond firmly believed the greatest gift that could be given to a veteran was a college education.

• Nathaniel Hawthorne - Thu, 03 May 2012
  

  His novels and tales are penetrating explorations of moral and spiritual conflicts.

• Maine Author's New Book Traces Aftermath of Communism in Eastern Europe... - Thu, 03 May 2012
  

  Maine author Kristen Ghodsee's latest nonfiction book, 'Lost in Transition: Ethnographies of Everyday Life after Communism,' recounts the stories of ordinary lives upended by the collapse of communism.

• The Inn at Brunswick Station - Tue, 01 May 2012
  

  Contact: Brandon Hussey 4 Noble Street, Brunswick, ME 04011 Phone: 207.837.6565 Email: reservations@innatbrunswickstation.com Fax: 207.837.6566 Welcome to the Inn at Brunswick Station, where you are the Center of attention in the Center of it all.

• Economy Puts Value Of Liberal Arts Under Scrutiny - Tue, 01 May 2012
  

  There's been a lot of hand-wringing for a long time about the relevance of a liberal arts education, but I think those worries have heightened over the last couple years.