Swarthmore College is a private school of liberal arts and engineering in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania. It was founded as a coeducational college in 1864 by the Religious Society of Friends, also known as the Quakers. The abolitionist and women’s rights leader Lucretia Mott was one of the founders.
Swarthmore College has a cooperative arrangement with nearby Bryn Mawr and Haverford colleges and with the University of Pennsylvania. Under this arrangement, Swarthmore students can take classes at any of the other three schools with no increase in tuition fees.
Swarthmore College’s campus includes the Scott Arboretum and the Sproul Observatory. The school’s sports teams are nicknamed the Garnet Tide. Well-known graduates of Swarthmore include Nobel Prize-winning scientists Christian B. Anfinsen and David Baltimore, 1988 Democratic presidential nominee Michael S. Dukakis, Senator Carl Levin of Michigan, author James A. Michener, suffragist Alice Paul, and educator Helen Magill White.
The college’s website at https://www.swarthmore.edu/ offers additional information.
