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 1,750 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.
Students may pay their bills by the semester due date, by installment payment plan over the course of the semester, with student/parent loans, or by combining these options.
Please note that Bowdoin does not accept credit cards in payment of student bills.
Tuition bills for current students are available online using the login access provided below. Students who owe a balance after they graduate or otherwise permanently leave the College receive paper bills, since their access to the online system ends when their Bowdoin network logins are deactivated.
Once in the system students and authorized payers may then access student account statements by clicking on View Accounts in the left navigation bar.
Students may set up as many as 5 (five) others to become Authorized Payers with separate user names and passwords. Authorized payers have privileges to view, print, and pay the student's account statement online. Because of federal privacy laws, only the student can assign access to others to view his or her student account. Each time a new account statement is available, an email notification is sent to the students and his/her Authorized Payer(s).
Guest Payers may make payments, but do not have privileges to view or print the statement.
Deposits to the student's OneCard may also be made in the online payment system from a checking or savings account, credit or debit card. For more information on the OneCard program, please visit the department web page, www.bowdoin.edu/onecard.
Additional information about billing and payment is available in the Bursar's Office FAQ section.
Payments with Bill Stubs: Please mail checks in U.S. dollars and drawn on a U.S. bank, payable to Bowdoin College, by first-class mail, with a Student Account Payment Worksheet if applicable, to the address shown below and on the bill. Do not send scholarship checks to this address.
Bowdoin College
PO Box 15019
Lewiston, ME 04243-9569
Other Payments and Correspondence: Please mail scholarship checks, checks in foreign currency, worksheets without payments, all correspondence and express mail directly to our office address below to help ensure proper crediting. Also, please indicate if a personal check represents scholarship funds paid personally to the student so that those funds are credited properly to the student account.
Bursar's Office
Bowdoin College
5420 College Station
Brunswick, ME 04011-8445
Returned Checks: Any checks written to Bowdoin College by students or parents that are returned for any reason are charged to the students' accounts. A $15 fee per check may also be assessed.
This method is the most expedient when paying from a bank account outside the U.S. Wire to the account of Bowdoin College, TD Bank, 35 Elm Street, Brunswick, Maine 04011, ABA #211274450, account #0241788738. (International wires only: SWIFT code NRTHUS33). Please reference the student's name and ID number as shown on the bill to identify the transaction when it arrives in the College's bank account.
A payment plan is a convenient, manageable way to pay tuition in interest-free, monthly installments rather than in one lump sum each semester. Bowdoin does not operate its own in-house payment plan. For convenience, two payment plan agencies are offered that enable students to pay their bills over 4-6 months during the course of a semester. Plans are available by the semester or for the academic year. The agencies charge an application fee, which is the same amount whether it is an annual plan or a semester plan, making annual plans slightly more economical. Application is made online at the links provided below. Plan budgets must be established and payments must be on schedule before a semester begins for a student to be able to enroll at Bowdoin for the semester.
If a payment plan is less than the amount of the semester bill, the remainder is due before classes start, unless covered by anticipated financial aid. Alternatively, the plan contract may be increased. Refunds are available if the payment plan overpays the student account. Web sites and phone numbers for each agency are:
Scholarship checks are applied to the current semester, unless instructions from the donor state another preference. Non-Bowdoin grants are the responsibility of the student recipient. The College does not pursue unpaid awards except to the extent that a donor may require a bill (provided by the Bursar's Office) or attendance verification (provided by the Registrar's Office). It is the student's responsibility to file a copy of his/her own tuition bill with a donor if required. The College returns scholarship funds as required by a donor if a student does not complete the semester or the year.
Stafford, Parent and Alternative Loans
Please refer to the Student Aid Office for assistance in processing student or parent loan applications at 207.725.3274 or studentaid@bowdoin.edu. Student aid recipients may access loan applications online through their personal aid web portals.
Hours: Monday-Friday, 8:30 a.m. - 5 p.m., Eastern time
Location: Room 212, McLellan Building, 85 Union St.
Directions from Campus:
Cross Maine Street near Joshua Chamberlain statue, turn left down second side street, Station Avenue, and proceed to the end. The McLellan Building is the large, gray shingled building on the corner of Station Avenue and Union Street. Room 212 is on the second floor.
