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- EIN 23-1352621
- (610) 526-5000
- 101 N Merion Ave Bryn Mawr PA 19010-2859 USA
- www.brynmawr.edu
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Nonprofit Overview
Causes: Education, Undergraduate Colleges
Mission: Bryn mawr college's mission is to provide a rigorous education and to encourage the pursuit of knowledge as preparation for life and work. Bryn mawr teaches and values critical, creative and independent habits of thought and expression in an undergraduate liberal arts curriculum for women and in coeducational graduate programs in arts and sciences and social work and social research. Bryn mawr seeks to sustain a community diverse in nature and democratic in practice, maintain its character as a small residential community which fosters close working relationships between faculty and students, emphasize learning through conversation and collaboration, primary reading, original research and experimentation. The academic and co-curricular experiences fostered by bryn mawr, both on campus and in the college's wider setting, encourage students to be responsible citizens who provide service to and leadership for an increasingly interdependent world.
Programs: Instruction: bryn mawr college's enrollment consists of approximately 1,370 full and part-time undergraduate students and 290 graduate and professional students. In fy2017, bryn mawr conferred 332 bachelor's degrees; 82 post-baccalaureate certificates; 79 master's degrees and 19 doctoral degrees. Seventy-four percent of full-time undergraduate students received some form of financial aid. Seventy-one percent received bryn mawr-source grant aid, of which the average amount was $32,900. In addition, during fiscal year 2017, the college provided over $4. 5 million in subawards to other institutions for instruction in critical languages and mathematics.
research: since its founding in 1885, the college has maintained its character as a small residential community which fosters close working relationships between faculty and students. The faculty of teacher/scholars emphasizes learning through conversation and collaboration, primary reading, original research and experimentation. The college's faculty research support programs reflect a strong institutional commitment to faculty scholarship and to the relationship between teaching and research.
public service and civic engagement: bryn mawr college's child study institute (csi) and phebe anna thorne school have been serving children, adolescents, and adults in the greater philadelphia area for more than sixty years. Csi provides psychological testing, therapy/counseling, educational support, and school consultation to children and families in a comfortable and welcoming setting. The thorne school offers developmentally oriented, child-centered pre-school and kindergarten programs. Civic engagement collaborates with community-based organizations to prepare students to be socially responsible leaders and citizens through purposeful action, reflection, and learning. A wide variety of programs include providing direct service such as tutoring, tax preparation, mentoring, and leadership training, and reflecting on that service inside and outside of a classroom setting. This dynamic combination of the practical and the academic helps shape students' professional goals, gives them real work experience, and provides the philadelphia metropolitan area with much-needed services.