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Bowdoin College
Bowdoin College
Bowdoin College
Bowdoin College
Bowdoin College
Bowdoin College
Bowdoin College
Bowdoin College
Bowdoin College
Bowdoin College
Bowdoin College
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Bowdoin College
Bowdoin College
Bowdoin College
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Bowdoin College
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Bowdoin College
Phone:
+1 207-725-3000

Hours:
SundayClosed
Monday8:30am - 5pm
Tuesday8:30am - 5pm
Wednesday8:30am - 5pm
Thursday8:30am - 5pm
Friday8:30am - 5pm
SaturdayClosed


Bowdoin College is a private liberal arts college located in Brunswick, Maine. At the time Bowdoin was chartered in 1794, Maine was still a part of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. The college offers 33 majors and four additional minors, as well as several joint engineering programs with Columbia University, Dartmouth College, Caltech and The University of MaineThe college was a founding member of its athletic conference, the New England Small College Athletic Conference, and the Colby-Bates-Bowdoin Consortium, an athletic conference and inter-library exchange with Bates and Colby College. Bowdoin has over 30 varsity teams and the school mascot was selected as a polar bear in 1913 to honor Robert Peary, a Bowdoin alumnus who led the first successful expedition to the north pole. Between the years 1821 and 1921, Bowdoin operated a medical school called the Medical School of Maine.The main Bowdoin campus is located near Casco Bay and the Androscoggin River. In addition to its Brunswick campus, Bowdoin also owns a 118-acre coastal studies center on Orr's Island and a 200-acre scientific field station on Kent Island in the Bay of Fundy. In 2017, the college was ranked as third-best liberal arts college in the country by U.S. News & World Report.
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