# Quaker Consortium

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{{Short description|Academic consortium in greater Philadelphia}}
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The '''Quaker Consortium''' is an arrangement among three [liberal arts college](/source/liberal_arts_college)s, [Bryn Mawr College](/source/Bryn_Mawr_College), [Haverford College](/source/Haverford_College), and [Swarthmore College](/source/Swarthmore_College), and one [research university](/source/research_university), the [University of Pennsylvania](/source/University_of_Pennsylvania), all located in the greater [Philadelphia](/source/Philadelphia) area. The arrangement allows for their students to enroll in courses at the other schools of the Consortium.

The name stems from the historic influence of [Quakers](/source/Quakers) in the Philadelphia region and in the founding and administration of the Consortium's member schools.

The three liberal arts colleges, members of the Tri-College Consortium, facilitate transportation among their respective campuses with free shuttle services. No such service is offered between the liberal arts colleges and Penn. Students wishing to get to Penn must drive or take the [SEPTA](/source/SEPTA) [Paoli/Thorndale Line](/source/Paoli%2FThorndale_Line) or [Media/Wawa Line](/source/Media%2FWawa_Line) trains to Philadelphia. Haverford and Bryn Mawr students can also take the [Norristown High Speed Line](/source/Norristown_High_Speed_Line) to [69th Street Transportation Center](/source/69th_Street_Transportation_Center) in Upper Darby where they transfer to SEPTA's [Market–Frankford Line](/source/Market%E2%80%93Frankford_Line) to reach Penn.  Some programs at the liberal arts colleges subsidize these SEPTA fares.

Historically, students from the three liberal arts colleges have taken advantage of the consortium (for Penn's vast curricular offerings) much more frequently than Penn undergraduates. In 2006, for example, around 150 Bryn Mawr College students took classes at Penn, while only 5 Penn students took classes at the three liberal arts colleges.<ref>[http://www.thedp.com/article/2006/09/sebastien_angel_capitalizing_on_the_consortium The Daily Pennsylvanian :: Sebastien Angel | Capitalizing on the consortium]. Thedp.com (2006-09-06). Retrieved on 2014-04-12.</ref>{{needs update|date=March 2022}}

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File:Erdman Bryn Mawr.JPG|{{center|Erdman Hall, [Bryn Mawr College](/source/Bryn_Mawr_College)}}
File:Cherry Trees around Haverford College Founders Hall.jpg|{{center|Founders Hall, [Haverford College](/source/Haverford_College)}}
File:UPenn Quad.jpg|{{center|The Quad, [University of Pennsylvania](/source/University_of_Pennsylvania)}}
File:Swarthmore Parrish Hall.jpg|{{center|Parrish Hall, [Swarthmore College](/source/Swarthmore_College)}}
</gallery>

{{Quaker Consortium}}

==External links==
*[http://www.college.upenn.edu/quaker-consortium Information on Quaker Consortium for Penn students]
*[http://www.brynmawr.edu/transportation/ Information on "Tri-Co" transportation]
*[https://www.haverford.edu/registrar/course-registration/course-search Course directory for Haverford] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250210002640/https://www.haverford.edu/registrar/course-registration/course-search |date=2025-02-10 }}
*[https://www.brynmawr.edu/inside/academic-information/registrar/tri-co-course-search Course directory for Bryn Mawr]
*[https://www.swarthmore.edu/tricollege-course-guide/search Course directory for Swarthmore]
*[http://www.upenn.edu/registrar/ Course directory for Penn]

== References ==
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Category:Private universities and colleges in Pennsylvania
Category:Quaker universities and colleges

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