Swarthmore College

Swarthmore College
MottoMind the Light[1][2]
TypePrivate liberal arts college
Established1864; 160 years ago (1864)
Academic affiliations
Endowment$2.7 billion (2022)[3]
PresidentValerie Smith
Academic staff
207[4]
Undergraduates1,699 (2022)[4]
Location
Swarthmore
,
Pennsylvania
,
United States
CampusSuburban, 425 acres (172 ha)
College newspaperThe Phoenix
Colors    Garnet and White
NicknameThe Garnet
Sporting affiliations
NCAA Division III – Centennial Conference
MascotPhineas the Phoenix[5]
Websiteswarthmore.edu Edit this at Wikidata

Swarthmore College (/ˈswɔːrθmɔːr/ SWORTH-mor, locally /ˈswɑːθmɔːr/ SWAHTH-mor)[6] is a private liberal arts college in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania.[7] Founded in 1864, with its first classes held in 1869, Swarthmore is one of the earliest coeducational colleges in the United States.[8] It was established as a college under the Religious Society of Friends.[9] By 1906, Swarthmore had dropped its religious affiliation and officially became non-sectarian.[10]

Swarthmore is an exclusively undergraduate four-year institution.[11] It is a member of the Tri-College Consortium, a cooperative academic arrangement with Bryn Mawr College and Haverford College. Swarthmore is also affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania through the Quaker Consortium, which allows students to cross-register for classes at all four institutions.[12]

Alumni include six Nobel Prize winners, 13 MacArthur Foundation fellows, as well as winners of the Tony Awards, Grammy Awards, Academy Awards and Emmy Awards, and the Guggenheim Fellowship.

  1. ^ Minutes of the Forty-Seventh Annual Meeting of the Corporation of Swarthmore College, Held Twelfth Month 6th, 1910. Swarthmore College. 1911. p. 21. Archived from the original on September 29, 2015. Retrieved August 18, 2015.
  2. ^ Chopp, Rebecca. "Stewarding Swarthmore". Archived from the original on October 2, 2019. Retrieved August 18, 2015.
  3. ^ As of March 7, 2022. U.S. and Canadian Institutions Listed by Fiscal Year 2021 Endowment Market Value and Change in Endowment Market Value from FY20 to FY21 (Report). National Association of College and University Business Officers and TIAA. 2022. Retrieved June 5, 2023.
  4. ^ a b "Common Data Set 2018–2019" (PDF). Swarthmore College. Archived (PDF) from the original on April 21, 2019. Retrieved September 6, 2019.
  5. ^ "The Phoenix :: Swarthmore College". www.swarthmore.edu. July 8, 2014. Archived from the original on April 8, 2010. Retrieved March 17, 2010.
  6. ^ Kenyon, John Samuel; Knott, Thomas Albert (1949). A Pronouncing Dictionary of American English. Springfield, Massachusetts: Merriam. p. 418.
  7. ^ "Swarthmore College". The Princeton Review. November 15, 2010. Archived from the original on April 30, 2011. Retrieved June 21, 2011.
  8. ^ "Facts & Figures". Swarthmore College. July 8, 2014. Archived from the original on May 1, 2018. Retrieved April 30, 2018.
  9. ^ "A brief history". Swarthmore College. February 10, 2016. Archived from the original on April 19, 2019. Retrieved April 16, 2019.
  10. ^ "12 of Swarthmore College's greatest alums". PhillyVoice. March 22, 2016. Archived from the original on April 26, 2016. Retrieved May 8, 2016.
  11. ^ "Swarthmore by the Numbers". November 3, 2022. Retrieved August 27, 2023.
  12. ^ "The Quaker Consortium". Archived from the original on June 4, 2016. Retrieved May 8, 2016.