Bates has once again been recognized by the American Council on Education and the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of ...

Mohammed M. Obaid Shwani ’24 has been a world traveler and an award winner since he was a teenager. In 2016, he first came to ...

A selection of recent mentions of Bates people in the news, including professors sharing research, alumni achievements across ...

Meredith Sallee ’07 is directing her decades of dance experience toward a new medium of underwater dancing, which combines ...

Join us for our livestream coverage — beginning at 9:30 a.m. on Sunday, May 31, 2026 — of the 160th Bates College ...

You can shape your situation before it shapes you, Bates grad… Bates Commencement speaker Angela Duckworth, author of "Grit," told the seniors to embrace “situation modificati ...

We are looking forward to welcoming Bates families and friends to campus in May to celebrate the Class of 2026. We will ...

Whenever the Bates photography/video team of Phyllis Graber Jensen (director of photography and video) and Theophil Syslo (multimedia producer) come back from assignment, they bring back hundreds if ...

Bates College will waive the admission application fee, beginning with the Fall 2025 pool of applicants. Previously, domestic applicants paid a $65 application fee but could request to have that fee ...

On a balmy Friday morning in mid-July, a research team of five from Bates scrambled across the slippery rocks of Cape Neddick, searching the rockweed-coated landscape for the shiny, dark, ...

Bates College is proud to partner with QuestBridge, a nationally recognized nonprofit organization that connects high-achieving students from low-income backgrounds with leading institutions of higher ...