Physics at Bowdoin College

If you are interested in studying physics, you may want to check out the program at Bowdoin College. The following information will help you decide if it is a good fit for you.

Bowdoin is located in Brunswick, Maine and approximately 1,777 students attend the school each year. Of the 619 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Bowdoin College in 2021, 11 of them were physics majors.

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

Bowdoin Physics Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Physics

Bowdoin Physics Rankings

Each year, College Factual ranks physics programs across the country. The following shows how Bowdoin performed in these rankings.

Note: Although rankings can help you see some information about a school, it's not a good idea to depend on them alone. Be sure to check out other things about the school before making your decision to attend.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The physics major at Bowdoin is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Physics. 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.

Ranking Type	Rank
Most Focused Physics Bachelor’s Degree Schools	61
Most Focused Physics Schools	70
Most Popular Physics Bachelor’s Degree Schools	212
Most Popular Physics Schools	310

Physics Student Demographics at Bowdoin

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

Bowdoin Physics Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 55% of physics bachelor's degrees went to men and 45% went to women. The typical physics bachelor's degree program is made up of only 24% women. So female students are more repesented at Bowdoin since its program graduates 21% more women than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 17% more racial-ethnic minorities in its physics 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 physics.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	3
Black or African American	1
Hispanic or Latino	1
White	4
International Students	2
Other Races/Ethnicities	0

Bowdoin also has a doctoral program available in physics. In 2021, 0 student graduated with a doctor's degree in this field.

Related Majors

• Chemistry
• Geological & Earth Sciences

Careers That Physics Grads May Go Into

A degree in physics 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
High School Teachers	5,790	$54,240
Natural Sciences Managers	300	$135,840
Physics Postsecondary Professors	70	$84,400
Physicists	40	$121,650

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.

• College Factual
• National Center for Education Statistics
• O*NET Online
• Image Credit: By Daderot under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.