Bryn Mawr College (School)
Bryn Mawr College
1885 AD - 1926 AD
Women's liberal arts college in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. Founded as a Quaker institution, Bryn Mawr is one of the Seven Sister colleges, a group of elite, historically women's colleges in the United States, and the Tri-College Consortium along with Haverford College and Swarthmore College.
The college has an enrollment of about 1,350 undergraduate students and 450 graduate students.
It was the first women's college to offer graduate education through a PhD.
The phrase bryn mawr literally means 'large hill' in Welsh.[a] The Graduate School is co-educational. It is named after the town of Bryn Mawr, in which the campus is located, which had been renamed by a representative of the Pennsylvania Railroad.
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