Giving to Bryn Mawr

Every day and every year, contributions make a difference in the lives of our students, who graduate to become agents of change in the world. Thank you.

You can make a difference.

Gifts to Bryn Mawr aggregate to provide extraordinary experiences for today’s students and enable us to seize opportunities as they arise. Bryn Mawr’s ability to dream big dreams responsibly depends on its community of highly engaged alumnae/i, parents and friends.

Our Priorities

Growing Student Opportunity

Bryn Mawr has a long history of transforming students’ lives. Thank you for expanding our financial aid resources, sustaining our academic excellence, and launching our students into a limitless future.

Supporting Faculty Innovation

An outstanding faculty is an investment. Thank you for supporting the teaching and scholarship that draw great faculty to Bryn Mawr, and funding the curricular innovation that puts our students ahead of the curve.

Funding Campus Renovation

Our campus is iconic and inspirational, and home to generations of students—while here and forever after. And your campaign dollars have always supported its renewal and regeneration.

Your Impact

Here are just a few ways donors have supported our students, faculty, and campus:

Growing Student Opportunity

Gifts to the endowment have funded financial aid and scholarships that help the College continue to meet 100% of demonstrated financial need for students.
Recent donors have established over 100 new scholarships and supported more than 1,000 summer internships.
A $10 million gift helped launch Bryn Mawr's reimagined Career and Civic Engagement Center.

Supporting Faculty Innovation

Gifts helped fund the International Initiatives Grant program and the 360° Course Clusters offerings, where faculty can research and teach complex, interdisciplinary topics.
Recent donorship endowed six faculty positions including in Environmental Studies, Chemistry, International Studies, and History of Art.
Increases in faculty funding supported the creation of new majors in Environmental Studies, International Studies, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, and Neuroscience and new minors in Health Studies, Museum Studies, and Data Science.

Funding Campus Renovation

We have renovated Park Science Center to create new and flexible teaching and research spaces, increase student study spaces, launch a maker space, and dramatically open up the building with the Johanna Alderfer Harris ‘51 Atrium.
We constructed a new dormitory with 101 single rooms and the Enid Cook ’31 Center, a residential space that also houses the Black Cultural Center (formerly in Perry House).
We built the Student Life and Wellness Center to house our medical and counseling center, our career and civic engagement center, our multicultural center, and religious and spiritual life.

What Giving Means to Us

Anassa Kata! In our most recent campaign, you made over 100,000 gifts totaling $301,884,913. Thank you for joining us to ensure that the College and its students will continue to defy expectation and the world will always expect Bryn Mawr.