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Computer Science at Bowdoin College

Computer Science at Bowdoin College

If you plan to study computer science, take a look at what Bowdoin College has to offer and decide if the program is a good match for you. Get started with the following essential facts.

Bowdoin is located in Brunswick, Maine and approximately 1,777 students attend the school each year.

Want to know more about the career opportunities in this field? Check out the Careers in Computer Science section at the bottom of this page.

Bowdoin Computer Science Degrees Available

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science

Bowdoin Computer Science Rankings

The computer science major at Bowdoin is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Computer Science. This could be for a number of reasons, such as not having enough data on the major or school to make an accurate assessment of its quality.

Computer Science Student Demographics at Bowdoin

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the computer science majors at Bowdoin College.

Bowdoin Computer Science Bachelor’s Program

29% Women
54% Racial-Ethnic Minorities*
For the most recent academic year available, 71% of computer science bachelor's degrees went to men and 29% went to women. The typical computer science bachelor's degree program is made up of only 24% women. So female students are more repesented at Bowdoin since its program graduates 5% more women than average.

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Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 19% more racial-ethnic minorities in its computer science bachelor's program than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Bowdoin College with a bachelor's in computer science.

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Race/Ethnicity Number of Students
Asian 4
Black or African American 4
Hispanic or Latino 4
White 13
International Students 0
Other Races/Ethnicities 3

Careers That Computer Science Grads May Go Into

A degree in computer science can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for ME, the home state for Bowdoin College.

Occupation Jobs in ME Average Salary in ME
Software Applications Developers 2,270 $90,190
Computer and Information Systems Managers 1,350 $124,130
Computer Workers 890 $79,790
Computer Programmers 780 $84,830
Computer Network Support Specialists 720 $63,800

References

*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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