Guzman, director of first-generation programs at Bates, had a preview of many of the culture shocks experienced by first-gen ...

Stuart Gurley, who manages both Olin Arts and the applied music program at Bates, conducts several Bates students as they ...

Armendáriz, professor of politics, was certain that she would never make a career out of studying Latin America. But, when ...

New faculty join Bates in chemistry, religious studies, and rhetoric. Bates is welcoming a large group of new faculty this year. Seventeen tenured or tenure-track professors will join the college over ...

Bates Swim & Dive is back – and we’re already making waves! The deck’s buzzing, the laughs are loud, and the Bobcats are ...

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The off-campus application for 2026-2027 will open on Tuesday, October 28, 2025. Read below for more information about the off-campus living process and policies. Bates is a residential college; ...

Qualified Bates College applicants are very successful. Depending on the specific pool of applicants each year, roughly 75% of the qualified students and alumni who apply are accepted to medical ...

Staff at the Edmund S. Muskie Archives and Special Collections Library love giving walking tours of the campus. They function like walking Bates encyclopedias, dropping tidbits about everything from ...

Bates is welcoming a large group of new faculty this year. Seventeen tenured or tenure-track professors will join the college in the course of the 2025-2026 academic year. Bates News is introducing ...

Marshall Hatch ’10 received a lot of texts on Sept. 30. Not surprising, given that at the crack of dawn, Time announced its TIME 100 Next, naming him one of “The World’s Most Influential Rising Stars” ...

As it creates a 21st century curriculum, Bates defines an excellent liberal arts education in terms of the academic pathways it clears for all students. As our founders imagined, evolving concepts of ...