In 1912, Bryn Mawr became the first college in the United States to offer doctorates in social work, through the Department of Social Economy and Social Research. Bryn Mawr was originally affiliated with the Quakers (Religious Society of Friends), but by 1893 had become non-denominational. The first class included 36 undergraduate women and eight graduate students. Bryn Mawr was one of the first institutions of higher education in the United States to offer graduate degrees, including doctorates, to women. Taylor, and its first president was James Rhoads. The college was largely founded through the bequest of Joseph W. Ellis's former home, also called Bryn Mawr, was a house near Dolgellau, Merioneth, Gwynedd, Wales. Bryn Mawr was the name of an area estate granted to Rowland Ellis by William Penn in the 1680s. It is named after the town of Bryn Mawr, in which the campus is located, which had been renamed by a representative of the Pennsylvania Railroad. The phrase bryn mawr literally means 'large hill' in Welsh. Historyīryn Mawr College is a private women's liberal arts college founded in 1885. It was the first women's college to offer graduate education through a PhD. The college has an enrollment of about 1,350 undergraduate students and 450 graduate students. Founded as a Quaker institution in 1885, Bryn Mawr is one of the Seven Sister colleges, a group of elite, historically women's colleges in the United States, and the Tri-College Consortium along with Haverford College and Swarthmore College. Late Gothic Revival, Gothic, Collegiate Gothicīryn Mawr College ( / ˌ b r ɪ n ˈ m ɑː r/ brin- MAR Welsh: ) is a women's liberal arts college in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania.