Bates welcomed 11 new tenured or tenure-track faculty for the 2026-2027 academic year, and Bates News is highlighting these ...

This fall, in addition to the 552 first-year students and 13 transfer students, an additional five students enrolled in a few ...

Bates ranked fourth among baccalaureate institutions for overall top performance in sustainability and, for the 10th consecutive year, earned a Gold rating for sustainability.

Dear members of the Bates community, As we all begin the work of a new academic year, I want to share some thoughts on Bates’ plans and priorities for the months ahead. Earlier this week, you received ...

Natalie Gersen ‘28 of Belmont, Mass., has been named a Newman Civic Fellow through Campus Compact, a national coalition of colleges and universities working to advance the public purposes of higher ...

Politics is the study of the way in which power, authority, and values are defined, produced, and distributed. Courses within the department focus on analyzing political processes at individual, local ...

The native range of European larch (Larix decidua) is in the European Alps from Switzerland to Italy. European larch can grow to be anywhere from 30 to 130 feet tall in North America, but has been ...

Leavitt is a high performance computing cluster (HPCC) named in honor of Henrietta Swan Leavitt (left), an American astronomer whose discoveries at the turn of the 20th Century helped shape our ...

Welcome to the Bates College campus tour. This tour website provides a detailed overview of our academic buildings, administrative offices, athletic facilities, campus features, residential buildings, ...

This fall, in addition to the 552 first-year students and 13 transfer students, an additional five students enrolled in a few courses across campus: previously incarcerated women joined first-year ...