For the second year in a row, the best college food in the country can be found here on campus at Moulton and Thorne dining halls. Bowdoin has retained the No. 1 spot on The Princeton Review list of "Best Campus Food."
Bowdoin also ranked second in the category "School Runs Like Butter"?up from 19th last year? and 17th for "Dorms Like Palaces." The rankings are released every August by The Princeton Review in The Best 361 Colleges.
On the U.S. News & World Report 2007 survey of the nation's best liberal arts colleges, Bowdoin claimed the seventh spot in a tie with Pomona College. Bowdoin was ranked sixth in 2005 and 2006.
Colby and Bates were ranked 20th and 23rd, respectively. Williams claimed the top spot on the list.
The colleges are scored on a number of factors, including peer assessment, first-year retention rate, graduation rate, class size, student/faculty ratio, selectivity, and financial resources.