Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Cumberland County, United States | College

Welcome to Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine, United States. Bowdoin College, Brunswick, has been educating leaders for America and the world since the dawn of the American republic. Founded in 1794, Bowdoin is a highly selective College of approximately 1,730 students of distinction from across America and around the world.
For 204 years, Bowdoin College students have handed down values, beliefs, and customs by word of mouth or by example from one generation to another. These are the traditions that bind each class with those that have gone before and with those that will follow.
During their first week on campus, Bowdoin students sign the same Matriculation Book signed by Hawthorne, Longfellow and Peary. In succeeding years, they learn the value of using their skills and knowledge not for personal gain, but for the common good. They come to know and appreciate the symbols of Bowdoin -- the sun, the pines, the polar bear. They find a love for Maine and its Atlantic coast and they come to understand Maine's reputation as a place of beauty and adventure and integrity. When students leave Bowdoin, it is with a sense of being part of something big, something of value. It is with a feeling that they are part of an institution shaped by the great events and personalities of all of American history and culture and with the knowledge that their work and their ideas are now a part of the Bowdoin tradition.