Private
Non-sectarian
Undergraduate and graduate
Primarily female
Tuition and Fees - $33,010
Room & Board - $10,550
Bryn Mawr College was founded in 1885 to give women access to educational opportunities that had long been denied them - including the first Ph.D. programs at a women's college.
Bryn Mawr seeks to develop in each of its students an intense intellectual commitment; a self-directed and purposeful vision of her life; and a desire to make a meaningful contribution to the world.
The College is located in the village of Bryn Mawr, about nine miles west of Philadelphia. Its 135-acre campus, which was designed by landscape-architecture pioneers Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux, is widely recognized as one of the most beautiful college campuses in the country.
Bryn Mawr buildings designed by the Philadelphia architecture firm Cope & Stewardson were the first examples of the "collegiate gothic" style of architecture that later swept college and university campuses; the College also boasts a dormitory, Erdman Hall, designed by the great 20th-century Philadelphia architect Louis Kahn.
Bryn Mawr awards Bachelor's Degrees, Post-bachelor's certificate, Master's, and the Doctorate. The most popular declared majors are English, Political Science, Biology, Math and Psychology.
Bryn Mawr maintains an active academic and social consortium with Haverford College, Swarthmore College and the University of Pennsylvania which allows students many benefits usually associated with larger research universities.
Bryn Mawr has consistently ranked in the top 20 of liberal arts colleges in America.
Bryn Mawr's undergraduate college has a student body of 1,346 (1,309 female) undergraduates and 421 graduate students. Almost a quarter of its students are women of color.
The Bryn Mawr faculty has 145 full-time and 37 part-time faculty members, of whom 50% are female and 16% are professors of color. The College's student-to-faculty ratio is 8:1.
Liberal Arts Colleges: 20
Overall score: 80
Average freshman retention rate: 93%
2006 graduation rate: (Predicted) 85%
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