Sarah Lawrence College

Founded in 1927, Sarah Lawrence College is a co-educational, four-year liberal arts college in the Lawrence Park section of Yonkers, New York, though it is located in the postal zone of Bronxville, New York, about thirty minutes north of New York City. It has a student population of 1,200 and is renowned for its strong writing and performance art departments and its rigorous, individualized approach to academics. Originally a women-only institution, Sarah Lawrence first officially opened its doors to men in 1969.

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1927 - Liberal arts college - Yonkers, New York - Bronxville, New York - New York City - 1969

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Sarah Lawrence is renowned for its low, 6-to-1 student-to-faculty ratio and its slightly nontraditional approach to academics. At the undergraduate level, Sarah Lawrence offers a Bachelor of Arts degree where, instead of traditional majors, students take a wide variety of courses in four different curricular distributions: the creative arts (creative writing, dance, theater, painting), history and the social sciences (anthropology, political science, sociology), humanities (Asian studies, art history, languages, religion), and natural science and mathematics (biology, chemistry, physics). Each student is assigned to a faculty advisor, known as a don, to plan a course of study. Most courses (apart from the performing arts) consist of two parts: the seminar, limited to 15 students, and the conference, a private, bi-weekly meeting with a seminar professor. In conference, students develop individual projects that extend the course material and link it to their personal interests. Sarah Lawrence has no required courses and traditional examinations have been replaced, in most courses, with writing final research papers and essays. The College sponsors international programs in Florence, Paris, Cuba, and Oxford, and at the British Academy of Dramatic Art in London.

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Undergraduate - Bachelor of Arts

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Sarah Lawrence also offers Master's-level programs in Writing, Child Development, Health Advocacy, Human Genetics, Theatre, and Dance, and is home to the nation's oldest graduate program in Women's History.

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