You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Bowdoin College. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Veteran Friendly for Spanish and Iberian Studies for a Bachelor’s list. This small school is located in Brunswick, Maine, and it awarded 15 bachelors’s Spanish and Iberian studies degrees in 2020-2021.
Bowdoin did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Spanish & Iberian Studies Bachelor’s Degree Schools” list.According to our most recent data, Bowdoin supports 1,777 students, and 17 of those are GI Bill® students, of which 9 are Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $24,044. To help with additional expenses, 11 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program.
With a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 86%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is [DEFAULT_RATE_STRING]%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
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