Bowdoin earned 94 ranking badges in the 2027 College Factual rankings: 18 in the top 1%, 47 in the top 5%, 24 in the top 10% and 5 in the top 15% of the schools in each ranking. Its highest placement is #1 of 30 in Skiing, a top 1% award.
Key facts
Badges earned: 94 (2027 edition)
In the top 1% / top 5%: 18 / 47
Highest placement: #1 of 30, a top 1% award
Fields of study with a badge: 11
Placements this edition: 159
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 Bowdoin College Earned?
Bowdoin College holds 94 ranking badges across 11 fields of study, 65 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. Each ranking is recalculated when updated data becomes available. This page reflects the 2027 edition. This page indicates the top award category achieved for this year. Read about 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%
18
Top 5%
47
Top 10%
24
Top 15%
5
Total
94
What Is Bowdoin College Known For?
Bowdoin College is best known for Social Sciences: 10 of its 60 traditional-student awards are in that field. Its top-ranked majors include Slavic, Baltic & Albanian Languages, Political Science & Government and General Biology. Its highest traditional-student placement is #1 of 25 in Most Focused for Slavic, Baltic & Albanian Languages.
In College Factual’s 2027 athletics rankings, Bowdoin College earned 34 badges across 21 sports, 32 of them in the top 5% or better; its highest placement is #1 of 30 in Skiing.
Bowdoin College earned no veterans badge in the 2027 edition; its highest placement in College Factual’s veterans rankings is #3,175 of 4,939 in Best for Veterans.
These rankings are built on federal education data, 2027 edition. Bowdoin College appears in 159 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