Bryn Mawr College ( /ˌbrɪnˈmɑr/ BRIN-MAR; Welsh: [ˌbrɨ̞nˈmaur]) is a women's liberal arts college located in Bryn Mawr, a community in Lower Merion Township, Pennsylvania, ten miles west of Philadelphia. The phrase bryn mawr means 'big hill' in Welsh.
Bryn Mawr is one of the Seven Sister colleges, and is part of the Tri-College Consortium along with two other colleges founded by Quakers—Swarthmore College and Haverford College. The school has an ...
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Bryn Mawr College ( /ˌbrɪnˈmɑr/ BRIN-MAR; Welsh: [ˌbrɨ̞nˈmaur]) is a women's liberal arts college located in Bryn Mawr, a community in Lower Merion Township, Pennsylvania, ten miles west of Philadelphia. The phrase bryn mawr means 'big hill' in Welsh.
Bryn Mawr is one of the Seven Sister colleges, and is part of the Tri-College Consortium along with two other colleges founded by Quakers—Swarthmore College and Haverford College. The school has an enrollment of about 1300 undergraduate students and 450 graduate students.
Bryn Mawr College is a highly selective, private, women's liberal arts college that was founded in 1885. It is named after the town of Bryn Mawr in which the campus is located, which had been named by a representative of the Pennsylvania Railroad who found the name in some old records. Bryn Mawr was the name of an area estate granted to Rowland Ellis by William Penn in the 1680s. Ellis's former home, also called Bryn Mawr, was a house near Dolgellau, Merionnydd ...
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