Bates College Academics

Bates College Electronic Factbook

Welcome to the Academics section of the Bates College Electronic Factbook! Click on any topic below to take you to further information about that area.

Academics

LINK: Academic Calendar
LINK: Bates College Catalog (most recent online version)
LINK: Faculty list and Faculty Committees (from the College Catalog)
LINK: Library statistics (from the Ladd Library pages)
LINK: Registrar and Student Financial Services Office (current course offerings, registration, academic policies)
TEXT: Majors and Secondary Concentrations Offered

Rankings?

Although the rankings are controversial, and the methodology changes annually, U.S. News and World Report has ranked Bates as number 22 among the top 218 national liberal arts colleges for 2001-2002 in its America's Best Colleges issue. Bates was also ranked 19th in "selectivity", 20th in "graduation and retention", and 12th in the "alumni giving" category.

Kaplan recently surveyed guidance counselors in public and private high schools across the country to determine which colleges they recommend to their students and why. The Kaplan guide cited special recognition to Bates as an outstanding school in the following categories:

Schools for the Academically Competitive Student
Schools that are "Hidden Treasures"
Schools Offering the Maximum Amount of Individual Academic Attention
Schools Providing a Good Liberal Arts Education
Schools with Notable Study Abroad Programs

In 2000, Bates was ranked by Yahoo! Internet Life magazine as the 3rd "most wired" liberal arts colleges in the country.

Bates is profiled as a "college of excellence" in The Hidden Ivies: Thirty Colleges of Excellence, by Howard Greene, M.A, M.Ed. and Matthew Greene, Ph.D., published by HarperCollins, 2000.

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