Colby College
Waterville, ME
- Undergrads
- 2,407
- Admit rate
- 7%
- Net price
- $17.2k
- Grad rate
- 89%
- Specialty: Social Sciences 28%
- Specialty: Biology 13%
Bowdoin College
Brunswick, ME 04011Town: FringeUNITID 161004
Private nonprofit 4-yearBaccalaureate Colleges: Arts & Sciences FocusSpecialty: Social Sciences 34%Specialty: Biology 21%
Undergraduates
1,873
Graduate students
Not reported
Admit rate
7%
Average net price
$14.4k
Graduation rate
95%
Retention rate
97%
Median earnings (10 yr)
$82.7k
Median debt
$18.5k
Student : faculty
9:1
Value score*
87th pct.
Programs offered
36
Highest degree
Bachelor's degree
- Sector
- Private nonprofit 4-year
- Region
- Northeast · New England
- Setting
- Town: Fringe (in urban cluster up to 10 miles from an urbanized area)
- Carnegie
- Baccalaureate Colleges: Arts & Sciences Focus
- Size & setting
- Four-year, small, highly residential
- Predominant degree
- Predominantly bachelor's-degree granting
- Religious affiliation
- None reported
- Main campus
- Yes
* Value score is a CampusAtlas estimate, not an official metric.
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- 8%
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- 94%
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- Undergrads
- 7,601
- Admit rate
- 4%
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- 98%
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- 1,613
- Admit rate
- 7%
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- $23.1k
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- 92%
- Specialty: Social Sciences 25%
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Amherst College
Amherst, MA
- Undergrads
- 1,911
- Admit rate
- 9%
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Grinnell College
Grinnell, IA
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- 1,729
- Admit rate
- 15%
- Net price
- $17.6k
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- 88%
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Source: U.S. Department of Education, College Scorecard, data as of June 10, 2026. “Not reported” means the value is missing or privacy-suppressed in the source data.