Bates Academy

Bates Academy is a clandestine academy that was founded in 1855. It has a absolute undergraduate acceptance of 1,773, its ambience is urban, and the campus admeasurement is 133 acres. Bates College's baronial in the 2016 copy of Best Colleges is National Advanced Arts Colleges, 25. Its charge and fees are $48,435 (2015-16).
Bates College—the aboriginal coeducational academy in New England—is amid in Lewiston, Maine, forth the Androscoggin River. Its ambience is favorable for alfresco enthusiasts; skiing, canoeing, beaches, Lake Auburn and accustomed parks are all nearby. Approximately 95 percent of acceptance reside on campus in either a abode anteroom or one of Bates’ 25 Victorian homes, which abode amid 10 and 30 acceptance each. Among the added than 110 apprentice organizations are the Outing Club, which sponsors alfresco and chance trips throughout the year; the Brooks Quimby Debate Council; and WRBC, the Bates radio station. About one-third of Bates acceptance participate in varsity athletics, and the Bates Bobcats are associates of the NCAA Division III New England Small Academy Athletic Conference.
Bates offers accessible of arts and accessible of science degrees in a amount of subjects. The General Apprenticeship claim is advised to accommodate acceptance with a ample education, but acceptance still accept a specialized acreage of abstraction from added than 30 accessible majors. If none of those are appealing, acceptance accept the advantage to architecture their own interdisciplinary major. About two-thirds of acceptance yield advantage of abstraction away programs, and Bates’ different bookish agenda incorporates a abbreviate five-week bounce appellation during which acceptance can focus on a individual affair or partake in an off-campus program.
School mission and different qualities (as provided by the school):
Since 1855, Bates Academy has been committed to the emancipating abeyant of the advanced arts. Bates educates the accomplished being through artistic and accurate scholarship in a collaborative residential community. With avidity and adherence -- Amore ac Studio -- we appoint the transformative ability of our differences, cultivating bookish analysis and abreast borough action. Preparing leaders abiding by a adulation of acquirements and a charge to amenable administration of the added world, Bates is a academy for advancing times.