Bowdoin College /ˈboʊdɨn/, founded in 1794, is a private liberal arts college located in the coastal Maine town of Brunswick. The college enrolls approximately 1,700 students and has been coeducational since 1971. It offers 33 majors and 4 additional minors, and the student-faculty ratio is 9:1. Famous alumni include Joshua Chamberlain, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry W. Longfellow. It is a highly selective liberal arts college. The 2013 annual ranking of U.S. News & World Report rates it tied for the 6th best liberal arts college in the nation and it is ranked 14th on Forbes magazine's list of America's Top Colleges.
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| - Bowdoin College /ˈboʊdɨn/, founded in 1794, is a private liberal arts college located in the coastal Maine town of Brunswick. The college enrolls approximately 1,700 students and has been coeducational since 1971. It offers 33 majors and 4 additional minors, and the student-faculty ratio is 9:1. Famous alumni include Joshua Chamberlain, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry W. Longfellow. It is a highly selective liberal arts college. The 2013 annual ranking of U.S. News & World Report rates it tied for the 6th best liberal arts college in the nation and it is ranked 14th on Forbes magazine's list of America's Top Colleges.
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| - Bowdoin College /ˈboʊdɨn/, founded in 1794, is a private liberal arts college located in the coastal Maine town of Brunswick. The college enrolls approximately 1,700 students and has been coeducational since 1971. It offers 33 majors and 4 additional minors, and the student-faculty ratio is 9:1. Famous alumni include Joshua Chamberlain, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry W. Longfellow. It is a highly selective liberal arts college. The 2013 annual ranking of U.S. News & World Report rates it tied for the 6th best liberal arts college in the nation and it is ranked 14th on Forbes magazine's list of America's Top Colleges. Bowdoin is located on the shores of Casco Bay and the Androscoggin River, miles ( km) north of Freeport, Maine, and miles ( km) north of Portland, Maine. In addition to its Brunswick campus, Bowdoin also owns a 118-acre (478,000 m²) coastal studies center on Orrs Island and a 200-acre (809,000 m²) scientific field station on Kent Island in the Bay of Fundy.
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