Bowdoin College has been educating leaders for America and the world since the dawn of the American republic. Founded in 1794, Bowdoin is a highly selective college of approximately 1,730 students of distinction from across America and around the world.
Bowdoin’s curriculum offers a bold blueprint for liberal education designed to inspire you to become a world citizen and leader with acute sensitivity to the social and natural worlds.
As a tour guide, multimedia developer and museum intern, English major Hillary Hooke '09 has been as hands-on as you can get at the Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum. In fact, she helped inventory all 10,000 objects in its collection.