At their sold-out show at Portland's State Theatre, Big Thief, a Brooklyn-based indie-folk band, shouted out Bates.

Over Fall Break, the Center Purposeful Work brought 14 Bates students around Boston to network with alumni in the ...

In Francesco Duina's latest collection, The Social Acceptance of Inequality: On the Logics of a More Unequal World (Oxford ...

We hope their words remind you why you’re on this significant journey and that you can thrive here. Read them now, or when a ...

Bates College will waive the admission application fee, beginning with the Fall 2025 pool of applicants. Previously, domestic applicants paid a $65 application fee but could request to have that fee ...

At Bates, we value relationships. These relationships allow students to learn, grow, and develop. The Student Support Advisor program is designed to help support the success of all of our students by ...

To establish first-time parent access in the payment portal, your student must log into the portal using their Bates credentials and add you as an authorized user. You’ll then receive an email ...

The first gifts to support Bates College reflected donors’ hope for the future. Seth and Mary Hathorn gave Oren Cheney $5,000 to build Hathorn Hall with the hope that their gift would “do good” for ...

Sex Week is an annual set of programs hosted by the Office of Student Well-Being, occurring in the spring. We are excited to celebrate Sex Week with the Bates community the week of March 10-14, 2025!

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