Bryn Mawr College is a liberal arts college for women founded in 1885 and located in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. It enrolls more than 1,700 student scholars and employs more than 200, majority-female, faculty. The college offers more than 35 undergraduate majors across the humanities, sciences, social sciences and arts, alongside two co-educational graduate schools offering master's and Ph.D. programmes in the Arts, Sciences and Social Work; Bryn Mawr was the first women's college to award graduate degrees. Its Postbaccalaureate Premedical Program is among the most successful in the country for placing students into medical school.
Research is central to the institution's standing. Washington Monthly ranks Bryn Mawr first among nearly 200 liberal arts institutions for research expenditure and third for research overall, and the Carnegie Classifications designate it a Research College. Undergraduates have access to multidisciplinary research opportunities, and the college is a leading producer of Fulbright awards.
Bryn Mawr states a commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility as the basis of academic excellence, and to gender equity and women's education and empowerment. Its stated academic approach combines a liberal arts curriculum with high standards and the freedom for students to follow their own interests, within a community intended to last beyond graduation.
