22 Facts About Bowdoin College

When Bowdoin College was chartered in 1794, Maine was still a part of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

Bowdoin College has over 30 varsity teams, and the school mascot was selected as a polar bear in 1913 to honor Robert Peary, a Bowdoin College alumnus who led the first successful expedition to the North Pole.

Between the years 1821 and 1921, Bowdoin College operated a medical school called the Medical School of Maine.

Main Bowdoin College campus is located near Casco Bay and the Androscoggin River.

Bowdoin College was chartered in 1794 by the Massachusetts State Legislature and was later redirected under the jurisdiction of the Maine Legislature.

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From its founding, Bowdoin College was known to educate the sons of the political elite and "catered very largely to the wealthy conservative from the state of Maine.

Bowdoin College began competing in the Colby-Bates-Bowdoin College Consortium, with Bates and Colby in 1970.

Bowdoin College's insisted that distribution requirements would ensure students a more well-rounded education in a diversity of fields and therefore present them with more career possibilities.

In 1990, the Bowdoin College faculty voted to change the four-level grading system to the traditional A, B, C, D, and F system.

In 2006, Bowdoin College was named a "Top Producer of Fulbright Awards for American Students" by the Institute of International Education.

Bowdoin College is accredited by the New England Commission of Higher Education.

Since abolishing Greek fraternities in the late 1990s, Bowdoin has switched to a system in which entering students are assigned a "college house" affiliation correlating with their first-year dormitory.

Bowdoin College competes in the Standard Platform League of RoboCup as the Northern Bites, where teams compete with five autonomous Aldebaran Nao robots.

Bowdoin College won the world championship in RoboCup 2007, beating Carnegie Mellon University, and finished 2nd in the 2015 US Open.

Bowdoin's student newspaper, The Bowdoin Orient, is the oldest continuously published college weekly in the United States.

The Bowdoin College Globalist transitioned to a digital-only platform in 2015 and changed its name to The Bowdoin College Review.

Bowdoin College signed onto the American College and University President's Climate Commitment in 2007.

Bowdoin College's facilities are heated by an on-campus heating plant that burns natural gas.

In 2003, Bowdoin College committed to achieving LEED-certification for all new campus buildings.

Bowdoin College operates the Bowdoin Scientific Station on Kent Island in the Bay of Fundy in New Brunswick.

Bowdoin College students compete in 30 varsity sports and several club and intramural teams.

Bowdoin College graduates have led all three branches of the American federal government, including both houses of Congress.