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'''Sweet Briar College''' is a [[Private college|private]] [[Women's colleges in the United States|women's]] [[liberal arts college]] in Sweet Briar, [[Amherst County, Virginia|Amherst County]], [[Virginia]]. It was established in 1901 by Indiana Fletcher Williams in memory of her deceased daughter, Daisy.<ref>archive.org, [https://archive.org/stream/copyofcharterofs00unse#page/6/mode/2up Copy of Charter of Sweet Briar Institute and the Amendments to Said Charter], 1927 (Retrieved 3-16-15)</ref> The college formally opened its doors in 1906 and granted the B.A. degree for the first time in 1910. It nearly closed in 2015 but was saved by donations and legal actions by alumnae.

~~In October 2024 the college changed its admission policy to ban [[transgender]] students.~~

Sweet Briar is known for its campus with its historic Georgian Revival architecture by [[Ralph Adams Cram]] and its {{convert|3250|acre|sqkm}} of hills, forests, and fields.