Bowdoin at a Glance

Bowdoin (rhymes with explodin') is a private, selective, liberal arts college, founded and endowed to benefit the common good. Our historic residential campus, located in Brunswick, Maine, is home to just over 1,800 students from all over the world.

Academic life at Bowdoin spans thirty-three departments, and is cooperative, not competitive: so we tend to attract students who like brainstorming with faculty, working in teams, and welcoming big, new, difficult questions.

We value kindness, diversity, creativity, and hard work. Your admission to Bowdoin places you in a global network of people who live their lives with intellectual fearlessness: people who seek out new perspectives, appreciate beauty, demand truth, and root for each other, forever.

Admission Statistics for the Class of 2022

Most Popular Majors

• Biology
• Earth and Oceanographic Science
• Economics
• English
• Environmental Studies
• Government and Legal Studies
• History
• Mathematics
• Neuroscience
• Sociology

Graduate schools enrolling the largest number of Bowdoin alumni:

• Harvard University
• Columbia University
• Boston University
• University of Pennsylvania
• Dartmouth College

Frequent employers of Bowdoin graduates:

• Dana Farber Cancer Institute
• Deloitte Consulting
• Fulbright
• Google
• Massachusetts General Hospital
• Teach for America
• US Government, including the State Department and the Department of Energy