Bryn Mawr CollegeProfile
Located in: Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania
First admitted students: 1885
Formally chartered as a college: 1885
Traditionally affiliated with: Princeton University, University of Pennsylvania, Haverford College, Swarthmore College
Founded by: bequest of Joseph W. Taylor; associated with the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) until 1893
Presidents have included M. Carey Thomas
Some famous graduates: Emily Greene Balch, Eleanor Lansing Dulles, Drew Gilpin Faust, Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, Josephine Goldmark, Hanna Holborn Gray, Edith Hamilton, Katharine Hepburn, Katharine Houghton Hepburn (the actress' mother), Marianne Moore, Candace Pert, Alice Rivlin, Lily Ross Taylor, Anne Truitt. Cornelia Otis Skinner attended but did not graduate.
Still a women's college: Bryn Mawr College
