About Bowdoin College

Bowdoin College (/ˈboʊdɪn/ (listen) BOH-din) is a private advanced arts researcher in Brunswick, Maine. At the times Bowdoin was chartered, in 1794, Maine was yet a allowance of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. The learned offers 34 majors and 36 minors, as without difficulty as several joint engineering programs once Columbia, Caltech, Dartmouth College, and the University of Maine.

The literary was a founding zealot of its flexible conference, the New England Small College Athletic Conference, and the Colby-Bates-Bowdoin Consortium, an energetic conference and inter-library exchange next Bates and Colby College. Bowdoin has higher than 30 varsity teams and the hypothetical mascot was fixed as a polar bear in 1913 to tribute Robert Peary, a Bowdoin alumnus who led the first affluent expedition to the North Pole. Between the years 1821 and 1921, Bowdoin operated a medical educational called the Medical School of Maine.

The main Bowdoin campus is located near Casco Bay and the Androscoggin River. In complement to its Brunswick campus, Bowdoin next owns a 118-acre coastal studies center upon Orr’s Island and a 200-acre scientific dome station on Kent Island in the Bay of Fundy.

Brunswick is a town in Cumberland County, Maine, United States. The population was 20,278 at the 2010 United States Census. Part of the Portland-South Portland-Biddeford metropolitan area, Brunswick is house to Bowdoin College, the Bowdoin International Music Festival, the Bowdoin College Museum of Art, the Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum, and the Maine State Music Theatre. It was formerly house to the U.S. Naval Air Station Brunswick, which was at all times closed on May 31, 2011 and has back been partially released to redevelopment as “Brunswick Landing”.