Bates earned 76 ranking badges in the 2027 College Factual rankings: 3 in the top 1%, 39 in the top 5%, 23 in the top 10% and 11 in the top 15% of the schools in each ranking. Its highest placement is #7 of 922 in Most Focused for Political Science & Government, a top 1% award.
Key facts
Badges earned: 76 (2027 edition)
In the top 1% / top 5%: 3 / 39
Highest placement: #7 of 922, a top 1% award
Fields of study with a badge: 11
Placements this edition: 149
Badge cutoff: a top 15% placement in a ranking
Source: IPEDS 2025; College Scorecard July 2026; College Factual rankings 2027. Data as of: July 2026.
How Many Ranking Badges Has Bates College Earned?
Bates College holds 76 ranking badges across 11 fields of study, 42 of them in the top 5% or better; each badge is an award for placing in the top 15% of a ranking. It has no placements this edition in College Factual’s online-program rankings. Rankings on this page are updated as new federal data is released. Placements shown are from the 2027 edition. This page indicates the top award category achieved for this year. Explore our data sources and methodologies. If you are an administrator interested in using our badge program to showcase your college’s strengths, please contact us.
Count by Award Level
Award Level
Badges
Top 1%
3
Top 5%
39
Top 10%
23
Top 15%
11
Total
76
What Is Bates College Known For?
Bates College is best known for Social Sciences: 8 of its 45 traditional-student awards are in that field. Its top-ranked majors include Political Science & Government, History and General English Literature.
In College Factual’s 2027 athletics rankings, Bates College earned 31 badges across 20 sports, 21 of them in the top 5% or better; its highest placement is #14 of 938 in Overall Athletics.
Bates College earned no veterans badge in the 2027 edition; its highest placement in College Factual’s veterans rankings is #3,976 of 4,939 in Best for Veterans.
Each ranking here is based primarily on data from the U.S. Department of Education, 2027 edition. Bates College appears in 149 of the College Factual rankings covered on this page.
The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE), serves as the core of our data about colleges.
Some other college data, including much of the earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
by our College Data Analytics Team