Bryn Mawr College is a private women's liberal arts college in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, in the Philadelphia suburbs, founded as a Quaker institution in 1885 and largely funded through the bequest of Joseph W. Taylor, with James Rhoads serving as its first president. It is one of the Seven Sisters and was one of the first women's colleges in the United States to offer graduate education through a PhD; by 1893 it had become non-denominational. The college enrolls about 1,350 undergraduate and 450 graduate students, with the graduate school coeducational while the undergraduate program remains women-focused.
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Does Bryn Mawr College admit men or transgender students?
Men have been admitted as graduate students since 1931; the undergraduate college is women-focused and since 2015 also admits transgender women.
Bryn Mawr has stayed women-focused at the undergraduate level, but it has not been women-only throughout. It began accepting men as graduate students in 1931, and its Graduate School is coeducational. In 2015 the board of trustees approved allowing transgender women and intersex individuals identifying as women to apply for undergraduate admission, and the college also has an official policy of accepting nonbinary students who were assigned female at birth.
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Historic member of the Seven Sisters consortium of women's colleges in the northeastern United States, alongside Barnard College.
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Historic member of the Seven Sisters consortium of women's colleges in the northeastern United States, alongside Mount Holyoke College.
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Historic member of the Seven Sisters consortium of women's colleges in the northeastern United States, alongside Smith College.
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Historic member of the Seven Sisters consortium of women's colleges in the northeastern United States, alongside Vassar College.
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Historic member of the Seven Sisters consortium of women's colleges in the northeastern United States, alongside Bryn Mawr College.
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Bryn Mawr College ( brin MAR, Welsh: [brɨn ˈmaur]) is a private women's liberal arts college in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, United States.
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Founded as a Quaker institution in 1885, Bryn Mawr is one of the Seven Sister colleges.
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Bryn Mawr College is a private women's liberal arts college in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, in the Philadelphia suburbs, founded as a Quaker institution in 1885 and largely funded through the bequest of Joseph W.
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Founded in 1870 by Henry and Pauline Durant as a female seminary, it is one of the Seven Sisters Colleges.
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