Buy your Bates Men’s Soccer gear before the Fall 2025 season kicks off at our Fan Store! 10% of all sales from the store goes ...

Rhetoric, film, and screen studies offer an interdisciplinary approach to the study of human communication that focuses on the intersectional nature of meaning and knowledge.

Visual literacy and visual acuity – looking with awareness and intention – are fundamental to liberal arts education. The Art and Visual Culture Department offers courses in studio practice and in the ...

This spring, the Harward Center celebrated the strength of the college’s engagement with the Lewiston–Auburn community with a string of grants and awards. Designing new paths through the Bates ...

Our tour website provides a detailed overview of our academic buildings, administrative offices, athletic facilities, campus features, residential buildings, and student life centers. For each tour ...

The Bates-Morse Mountain Conservation Area comprises some 600 acres of permanently protected salt marshes and coastal uplands, extending from the Sprague River to the Morse River and to the upland ...

Our process: The Bates Center for Purposeful Work surveyed the Class of 2023 at graduation and again in December 2023 to determine students’ postgraduation plans. In addition to this survey, data was ...

Click on a link below to see the summer research recipients from that year.

Visit In-Person We can’t wait to meet you! Join us for an in-person campus tour and information session. Spending time on campus is a great way to get to know Bates. During your visit, observe the day ...

Located in Lewiston, Maine, Bates is internationally recognized as a leading liberal arts college. We are proud to offer a highly personalized education that centers on deep and sustained interactions ...

Data and computers are transforming virtually every facet of our professional and personal lives. Increasingly, they are the dominant media for how we generate, apply, and share knowledge. The fields ...

Bates has been a national leader in the test-optional movement for over four decades. In October 1984, the faculty voted to make standardized testing, such as the SAT and the ACT, optional for all ...