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Bowdoin College Academic Experience



Past Performance | Probation Policy|Academic Calendar | Graduate Career Data

Past Performance

What Do We Like To Study?

Most Popular Majors

Academic Calendar for 2002-03.

Academic Calendar System:

  • Semester System (two terms comprise academic year)

New student orientation:

  • Orientation for new students is held in late August.

Graduate Career Data

Percentage of graduates who pursue further study:
  • 17% continue immediately.
  • 73% continue within 5 years.
Percentage of all graduates who pursue graduate study in various fields:
  • Law School: 4%
  • Medical School: 3%
  • Graduate Arts and Sciences Programs: 10%
List of graduate schools most often selected by our recent graduates:
  • Boston College Law Sch, UC at Berkeley, Georgetown University, Harvard University, University of
  • Wisconsin at Madison.
45% of our graduates choose careers in business and industry.

Firms that most frequently hire our graduates:
  • Coopers and Lybrand, Deloitte & Touche, First Boston, ICF Kaiser, Peace Corps, Sun Life, UNUM.
Most prominent alumni/ae:
  • Franklin Pierce, 14th president of the U.S.; Nathaniel Hawthorne, author; Admiral Robert Peary and Commander Donald B. MacMillan, Arctic explorers; Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, poet; Joan Benoit Samuelson, Olympic champion marathon runner; William Cohen, U.S. senator; George Mitchell, former U.S. senator and majority leader.