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, Henry W. Longfellow, Franklin Pierce, Andrew Haldane and Nathaniel Hawthorne. It is a highly selective liberal arts college. As of 2012, Bowdoin is ranked 6th amongst the National Liberal Arts Colleges in the U.S. News Report Ranking and is ranked 14th on Forbes Magazine's list of America's Top Colleges.
Brunswick is located on the shores of Casco Bay and the Androscoggin River, 12 miles north of Freeport, Maine, and 28 miles 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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