Bryn Mawr College is a private women's liberal arts college founded in 1885. The Graduate School is co-educational. The name "bryn mawr" is Welsh for big hill. It is named after the town of Bryn Mawr, in which the campus is located. The town of Bryn Mawr had previously been named Humphreysville, after the Humphreys family who had bought the land in 1683. The town was renamed Bryn Mawr in the mid-nineteenth century by the Pennsylvania Railroad Corporation. Bryn Mawr had been the name of an estate granted to Rowland Ellis by William Penn in the 1680s. Ellis named it after his former home, a house near Dolgellau, Merioneth, Wales. The college was largely funded through the bequest of Joseph W. Taylor, and its first president was James Rhoads. Bryn Mawr was one of the first institutions of higher education in the United States to offer graduate degrees, including doctorates, to women. The first class included 36 undergraduate women and eight graduate students. Bryn Mawr was originally affiliated with the Quakers (Religious Society of Friends), but by 1893 had become non-denominational. More information...
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