ABOUT
Bryn Mawr is one of the world’s most distinctive, distinguished colleges, located 11 miles west of Philadelphia on a beautiful, 135.5-acre campus in Montgomery County. It was the first women’s college to award a Ph.D. Its history has been defined by a commitment to intellectual rigor and freedom of conscience. The Bryn Mawr buildings are truly original in their adaptation of Jacobean Gothic and possess romance and charm.
GENERAL
SIG at Bryn Mawr College is a Residential Program. A Commuter Program and Extended Commuter Program as well as a Day Program are also available.
- Choose from a wide variety of courses taught in Humanities, Math, Science, Technology, Multi-Disciplinary, Visual and Performing Arts, and Fitness and Recreation
- Experience independence within a secure environment living in a college dorm for 3 weeks (commuter option also available)
- Meet other gifted students from around the world who share common interests, abilities, and goals
- Enjoy a variety of fun social activities in the evenings and excursions on the weekends
FUN FACTS!
- Notable Bryn Mawr alumnae include Drew Gilpin Faust, the first woman president of Harvard University; Nobel Peace Prize winner Emily Greene Balch; artist Anne Truitt; four-time Academy Award-winning actress Katharine Hepburn; bestselling novelist Andrea Portes (1993)
- Notable faculty include Woodrow Wilson, chemists Arthur C. Cope and Louis Fieser, historian Caroline Robbins, mathematician Emmy Noether, classicist Richmond Lattimore, the Spanish philosopher José Ferrater Mora, the poet Karl Kirchwey.
- In 2011, Travel+Leisure named Bryn Mawr as one of the most beautiful college campuses in the United States.
- SIG has been on campus since 1987; Bryn Mawr’s compact campus is a perfect location for a first-time SIG student.
- Bryn Mawr is the only SIG campus that offers archery.
- A SIG Day Program is also available at Bryn Mawr College for students ages 6 through 8.