At a Glance
Location
The College is located in southern Westchester County, New York, in the City of Yonkers, bordering the Village of Bronxville, just north of New York City. A 30-minute train ride from the Bronxville station takes students into midtown Manhattan.
Enrollment
Sarah Lawrence has been co-ed since 1968. The College's 1,300+ undergraduate students and more than 300 graduate students come from nearly every state and from 34 countries.
Campus
Ninety percent of students live on the 41-acre wooded campus. Ivy-covered Tudor-style and award-winning contemporary buildings house classrooms, faculty offices and residence halls. Sarah Lawrence has outstanding library, performing arts, music, visual arts, science, computing and sports facilities.
Undergraduate Academic Program
The academic structure combines small seminar classes with individual student-faculty conferences or tutorials. Students take courses from at least three of the following four areas:
- History and the Social Sciences
- Humanities
- Natural Sciences and Mathematics
- Creative and Performing Arts
Students receive written evaluations; grades are recorded for transcript purposes only.
Faculty
Respected scholars, artists, writers and performers make up the Sarah Lawrence faculty. With a 6-to-1 student-faculty ratio, our faculty has a higher level of one-on-one involvement with each student's education than is found at any other major undergraduate college in the country.
Financial Aid
To make a Sarah Lawrence education available to a wide range of students, the College awards financial aid on the basis of need. Currently, about 50 percent of all students receive some form of financial aid.
Admission
General information is available on this site for admission to undergraduate and graduate programs as well as to the Center for Continuing Education BA, post-BA, and non-credit programs.
Study Abroad
Sarah Lawrence students enjoy opportunities for study abroad in the College's own international programs in Paris, London, Oxford, Florence and Havana as well as through other institutions in countries around the world.
Allied Institutions
Exchange programs with Reed College in Portland, Oregon and Eugene Lang College, the undergraduate division of the New School University in New York City, provide additional learning opportunities.
Graduate Studies
SLC offers Masters programs in Art of Teaching, Child Development, Dance, Health Advocacy, Human Genetics, Theatre, Women's History and Writing.
Center for Continuing Education (CCE)
CCE prepares adults to begin, or resume, their college careers. It offers both non-credit and credit courses for those pursuing a bachelor's degree or specific course credits to qualify for graduate school.
Child Development Institute (CDI)
CDI enhances programs in child development and education at Sarah Lawrence — and the greater area educational community — through outreach programs, lectures, conferences and other activities.
Early Childhood Center (ECC)
ECC is a laboratory school for children from two through six years of age and serves families and children in lower Westchester County and in the College community. Students studying in the Child Development or Art of Teaching graduate programs may do field placemetns at ECC.
