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Bowdoin College

Private nonprofit, four-year or above, in Brunswick, Maine.

Students and awards

From NCES’s 2025–26 IPEDS collection.

2,036
Students enrolled during the year
Everyone enrolled at any point in the 12 months, not fall enrollment.
2,036
Undergraduates
0
Graduate students

From NCES’s 2025–26 IPEDS collection.

528
Bachelor's degrees awarded
0
Associate's degrees awarded
0
Master's degrees awarded

Graduation, admissions and price

From NCES’s 2024–25 IPEDS collection.

95.0%
Graduation rate
95.0%
Bachelor's within six years

From NCES’s 2024–25 IPEDS collection.

7.0%
Applicants admitted
54.0%
Admitted students who enrolled

From NCES’s 2024–25 IPEDS collection.

$67,832
Tuition and fees
$88,820
Price in state, living on campus
$88,820
Price out of state, living on campus

Tuition and fees

From NCES’s 2024–25 IPEDS collection.

Bowdoin College published $67,832 in in-state tuition and fees for 2024–⁠25, against $58,322 for 2021–⁠22

Published in-state tuition and fees for full-time, first-time undergraduates, each academic year, as the college reported them to NCES: the price before any grant, in the dollars of each year. All four years are from one IPEDS release, which restates the years before it.

Source: IPEDS

About this chart

The figures

Bowdoin College published $67,832 in in-state tuition and fees for 2024–25, against $58,322 for 2021–22. Published in-state tuition and fees for full-time, first-time undergraduates, each academic year, as the college reported them to NCES: the price before any grant, in the dollars of each year. All four years are from one IPEDS release, which restates the years before it.
Academic yearIn-districtIn-stateOut-of-state
2024–⁠25$67,832$67,832$67,832
2023–⁠24$64,910$64,910$64,910
2022–⁠23$61,528$61,528$61,528
2021–⁠22$58,322$58,322$58,322
The price of a year on campus for an in-state student, 2024–25
ItemPrice
In-state tuition and fees$67,832
Books and supplies$840
Food and housing on campus$18,488
Other expenses on campus$1,660
Total, as NCES adds it$88,820

The published price, before any grant or scholarship: what a student is charged, not what a student pays. Each NCES release restates the years before it, so all of these are from the one release.

Faculty pay

From NCES’s 2024–25 IPEDS collection.

Full-time instructional staff and average salary by academic rank, 2024–25
RankFull-time staffAverage salary, nine-month basis
Professor64$172,332
Associate professor60$135,043
Assistant professor77$96,033
Lecturer25$95,496
No academic rank2$128,810
All ranks228$127,945

Full-time, non-medical instructional staff as of November 1. NCES equates 10-, 11- and 12-month contracts to nine months and averages base salary only; supplements and stipends are excluded. Ranks are the college’s own, and the newest collection is provisional.

How this compares

Students enrolled during the year: 2,036
Larger than 62% of the 1,543 colleges in its sector (private nonprofit, four-year or above) that report an enrollment. Compared within its sector, because a two-year college and a research university are not the same kind of place.
Graduation rate: 95%
Higher than 96% of the 1,233 colleges in its sector (private nonprofit, four-year or above) that report one.
Average faculty salary, all ranks: $127,945
Higher than 95% of the 1,464 colleges in its sector (private nonprofit, four-year or above) in NCES's salary survey. Full-time instructional staff, equated to a nine-month contract.

What former students earn and owe

From the U.S. Department of Education’s College Scorecard, used under Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY). Earnings are of students who received federal aid.

$79,722
Median earnings four years after completing
$90,153
Median earnings ten years after entering
$15,000
Median federal debt of graduates
0.0%
Three-year default rate

The college’s entry

Sector
Private nonprofit, four-year or above
Control
Private nonprofit
Grants degrees
Yes
Locale
Town, fringe
County
Cumberland County
IPEDS ID
161004

Sources

Compiled automatically from Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), 2025–26 collection and College Scorecard, most recent institution-level data by a checked SQL query · Editor: Kian O'Connor · How this site is built

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