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- Joseph Taylor, a member of the Society of Friends (Quakers), founded the college in 1885. Though Quaker beliefs helped to form the college, it has operated as a nondenominational college.
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Founded as a Quaker institution in 1885, Bryn Mawr is one of the Seven Sister colleges, a group of historically women's colleges in the United States. The college has an enrollment of about 1,350 undergraduate students and 450 graduate students. It was the first women's college to offer graduate education through a PhD.
Though Quaker beliefs helped to form the college, it has operated as a nondenominational college. Bryn Mawr was the first institution of higher learning in the United States to offer graduate instruction to women; men were first admitted to the graduate program in 1931.
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While the College has been non-denominational for most of its history, Bryn Mawr was founded by members of the Religious Society of Friends (“Quakers”).
Bryn Mawr College was founded in 1880 with an endowment from a Quaker businessman and physician, Dr. Joseph Wright Taylor. Taylor had seen the frustrations of a friend's daughter who was unable to pursue graduate study.
The College’s rigorous liberal arts curriculum and distinguished graduate programs foster a thirst for knowledge, open inquiry, global perspectives, civic engagement, and innovation through study across the arts, humanities, sciences, and social sciences.
Bryn Mawr College (1885) was founded upon an endowment from Dr. Joseph Wright Taylor, a Quaker businessman and physician. Dr. Taylor had observed the frustration of a daughter of a Baltimore friend who was unable to study at the graduate level.
Bryn Mawr’s Quaker founder Joseph Taylor originally sought to establish a “female Haverford” that would provide a “guarded education” for Quaker women and place Christian teachings at the forefront.
