Bowdoin College
Investment & Impact
| Men's tennis expenses | $227,141 |
|---|---|
| Women's tennis expenses | $276,866 |
How much does Bowdoin College spend on men's tennis?
Bowdoin College reported $227,141 in total men's tennis expenses in the 2025 EADA survey, ranking #332 of 962 men's tennis programs nationally. Figures are school-reported to the U.S. Department of Education.
Does Bowdoin College offer athletic scholarships for men's athletes?
In the 2025 EADA survey, Bowdoin College's athletically related student aid averaged about $0 per men's athlete across all men's sports. Aid is reported at the school level, not per team.
How much does Bowdoin College spend on recruiting men's athletes?
Bowdoin College reported $89,659 in total recruiting expenses for men's teams in the 2025 EADA survey (school-wide, all men's sports).
How does Bowdoin College's spending compare between men's and women's tennis?
In the 2025 EADA survey, Bowdoin College reported $227,141 in total men's tennis expenses and $276,866 in total women's tennis expenses.
Can college athletes in Maine earn NIL money?
Maine's college NIL law (LD 1893, signed March 31, 2022) protects college athletes' right to earn NIL compensation. (Verified 2026-06-11; source: https://mpaprof.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/MPA-Handbook.pdf.)
Public DOE EADA filing, 2025 survey · figures are school-reported
How big is the Bowdoin College men's tennis roster?
Bowdoin College listed 12 players on its men's tennis roster in its 2025 filing, in line with the New England Small College Athletic Conference median of 12.
Bowdoin College's men's tennis roster has grown over 5 years, from 10 players in 2020 to 12 in 2025.
| Survey year | Players | Coaches |
|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 10 | 1 |
| 2022 | 9 | 1 |
| 2023 | 11 | 1 |
| 2024 | 13 | 1 |
| 2025 | 12 | 1 |
How many coaches does Bowdoin College men's tennis have?
Bowdoin College lists a single head coach and no assistant on the 2025 filing for men's tennis, which works out to about 12 players per coach, well above the NCAA Division III median of 5.3, by 125%.
More players per coach generally means practice time is shared more widely and an assistant or volunteer coach carries more of the day-to-day work.
What does Bowdoin College spend on men's tennis?
Bowdoin College reported $227,141 in total men's tennis expenses for 2025, 267% above the NCAA Division III median of $61,890.
Day-to-day operating spending on the men's team came to about $9,389 per player in 2025, well above the NCAA Division III median of $1,918, by 390%.
Recruiting spending, which EADA reports for all men's sports at the school together rather than for tennis alone, was about $254 per male athlete in 2025, well above the NCAA Division III median of $120, by 111%.
Total men's tennis expenses rose 64% between 2020 and 2025, from $138,363 to $227,141.
NCAA Division III programs do not award athletic scholarships; aid at this level is academic and need-based.
What is Bowdoin College like academically?
Bowdoin College is a small private, nonprofit college whose highest award is the bachelor's degree that admits 7% of applicants, highly selective by national standards, where the median college admits 78%.
Admitted students' SAT scores average 1520, a profile that puts academic standing ahead of tennis for most recruits here.
The full cost of attendance is around $85,100 a year, well above the national median of $25,497, but the average family paid about $14,398 after grants and scholarships, in the below the median nationally, so aid covers roughly 83% of the sticker price on average.
95% of students finish their degree within six years, in the top quarter of colleges nationally and 97% of first-year students return for a second year.
Ten years after enrolling, former students earn a median of $82,735, among the top quarter of colleges.
What can you study at Bowdoin College?
Social Sciences is the largest field at 31% of degrees, followed by Biological & Biomedical Sciences (19%) and Physical Sciences (9%).
The bachelor's degree programs below awarded the most degrees in the most recent College Scorecard field-of-study data; a recruit should ask the coach how practice and travel fit around a specific major’s lab or clinical hours.
- Political Science and Government (83 degrees)
- Economics (78 degrees)
- Area Studies (47 degrees)
- Mathematics (43 degrees)
- Computer Science (42 degrees)
- Biology, General (33 degrees)
- History (29 degrees)
- English Language and Literature, General (29 degrees)
- Neurobiology and Neurosciences (26 degrees)
- Natural Resources Conservation and Research (21 degrees)
What is Brunswick, ME like to live in?
Bowdoin College sits in Brunswick, a town on the edge of a metro area of about 17,000 people in Cumberland County, Maine.
The median household in Brunswick earns about $68,190, which is about the Maine median ($71,773) but below the national median ($78,538).
Housing costs more here than in most of Maine: a typical home is valued around $333,500, 25% above the state median and a typical rent of $1,300 a month is 20% over the state figure.
Getting around is quick: the average commute is 22 minutes against a national average near 27, and driving is common but not universal, though 12% of workers walk and 17% work from home.
It reads as a college town: 11% of residents are 20 to 24, roughly 1.7 times the national share, and the median age of 38 is close to the country's 39.
50% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, more than the Maine average of 35%.
What other teams does Bowdoin College field?
Bowdoin College also fields one other team with a public profile here.
Program Info
| Division | NCAA Division III |
|---|---|
| Conference | New England Small College Athletic Conference |
| Sport | Men's Tennis |
| Location | Brunswick, ME |
| Enrollment | 1,873 |
| Type | private-nonprofit |
| Highest degree | Bachelor's |
Frequently Asked Questions
- Does Bowdoin College have a men's tennis team?
- Yes. Bowdoin College fields a NCAA Division III men's tennis team in the New England Small College Athletic Conference and reported 12 players in its 2025 Equity in Athletics filing.
- What division is Bowdoin College men's tennis?
- Bowdoin College competes in NCAA Division III in the New England Small College Athletic Conference. NCAA Division III programs do not award athletic scholarships; aid at this level is academic and need-based.
- How does the Bowdoin College men's tennis roster compare with other New England Small College Athletic Conference programs?
- With 12 players in 2025, Bowdoin College is in line with the New England Small College Athletic Conference median of 12, based on 10 New England Small College Athletic Conference programs that reported men's tennis that year.
- How many coaches does the Bowdoin College men's tennis team have?
- 1 on the 2025 filing (1 head, 0 assistant), about 12 players per coach, 125% above the NCAA Division III median of 5.3.
- How much does it cost to attend Bowdoin College?
- The College Scorecard lists an average cost of attendance of $85,100 a year, and an average net price of $14,398 after grants and scholarships. Athletic aid, where the division allows it, comes on top of that and varies by recruit.
- Where is Bowdoin College?
- Bowdoin College is in Brunswick, ME, in the New England region, in what the Department of Education classes as a town.
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