- Location: Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania
- Setting: Suburban
- Affiliation: Independent
- Founded: 1885
Points of Pride
Bryn Mawr College is a highly selective women's college right outside Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. A close-knit community of about 1,420 undergraduate students, Bryn Mawr is renowned for its academic excellence and engagement with the world.
On Bryn Mawr’s historic campus, students find challenging courses and research opportunities; strong bonds with faculty, students, and alumnae/i; and innovative programs that connect study with action. Students, faculty, and staff work together to build a community that is inclusive and welcoming. Through a holistic curriculum, the country’s oldest Self-Government Association, and a student-owned honor code, Bryn Mawr encourages original thinking.
Critical, creative, and collaborative, Bryn Mawr students and alumnae/i are agents of change and forever members of a community founded on the respect for individuals.
History
When Bryn Mawr College opened its doors in 1885, it offered women a more ambitious academic program than any previously available to them in the United States. Other women's colleges existed, but Bryn Mawr was the first to offer graduate education through the Ph.D.—a signal of its founders' refusal to accept the limitations imposed on women's intellectual achievement at other institutions.
Location & Contact
Bryn Mawr College
101 North Merion Avenue
Bryn Mawr, PA 19010
United States
Office of Admissions
Degrees Offered
Areas of Study
- Africana Studies
- Anthropology
- Arabic
- Astronomy
- Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
- Biology
- Chemistry
- Child and Family Studies
- Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology
- Comparative Literature
- Computer Science
- Creative Writing
- Dance
- Data Science
- East Asian Languages and Cultures
- Economics
- Education
- Environmental Studies
- Film Studies
- Fine Arts
- French and Francophone Studies
- Gender and Sexuality Studies
- Geology
- German and German Studies
- Greek / Latin and Classical Studies
- Growth and Structure of Cities
- Health Studies
- History
- History of Art
- International Studies
- Latin American/ Iberian and Latina/o Studies
- Linguistics
- Literatures in English
- Mathematics
- Middle Eastern Studies
- Museum Studies
- Music
- Neuroscience
- Peace / Conflict and Social Justice Studies
- Philosophy
- Physics
- Political Science
- Psychology
- Religion
- Romance Languages
- Russian
- Sociology
- Spanish
- Statistics
- Theater
- Transnational Italian Studies
- Visual Studies