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The following is a list of mixed-sex colleges and universities in the United States, listed in the order that mixed-sex students were admitted to degree-granting college-level courses.
Many of the earliest mixed-education institutes offered co-educational secondary school-level classes for three or four years before co-ed college-level courses began – these situations are noted in the parentheticals below.
1837 | Oberlin College (women were admitted to the "preparatory department" in 1833) [1][ dead link] [2] [3] |
1844 | Hillsdale College [3] [4] [5] |
1845 | Franklin College (co-ed secondary-level classes began in 1842 at "Indiana Baptist Manual Labor Institute"; chartered as Franklin College in 1845) [6] [7] [3] |
1847 |
Lawrence University
Baylor College (until 1851 Baylor offered "coeducation" in the same building, although in separate classes; after 1851 the school fully segregated the sexes until 1887) [3] [8] [9] [10][ unreliable source?] [11] |
1847 | Earlham College [12] |
1849 |
New-York Central College (disestablished 1860)
[13] Otterbein University [3] [14] |
1851 | Waynesburg College [15] |
1852 | Westminster College [16] |
1853 |
Antioch College
[17] Cornell College (originally Iowa Conference Seminary, co-ed classes start with founding 1853) [18] Lawrence University (co-ed secondary classes began in 1849) [19] Willamette University (co-ed secondary classes began in 1842) [20] |
1854 |
Muskingum University
[21] Pacific University (co-ed secondary classes began in 1849) [22] Urbana University (co-ed secondary classes began in 1850) [23] [24] |
1855 |
Eureka College (First school in Illinois and third in the nation to admit women on an equal basis with men at its founding)
[25]
Bates College
[26]
[27] |
1856 |
Baldwin University (now Baldwin Wallace University) (co-ed secondary classes began in 1845)
[28] University of Evansville (formerly Moore's Hill College) [29] St. Lawrence University [30] Wilberforce University (first coeducational HBCU in the United States)[ citation needed] |
1857 |
Alfred University (co-ed secondary classes began in 1836; it received its university charter in 1857)
[31]
[32] Hamline University (co-ed secondary classes began in 1854) [33] |
1858 | University of Mount Union (co-ed classes began in 1846; chartered as college in 1858) [34] |
1859 |
Adrian College (four women enrolled as early as 1855 when Michigan Union College; Adrian itself was open to women from the onset under equal curriculum)
[35]
Cooper Union (free college; enrollment open to all genders, races, religions, economic classes)
[36]
[37] |
1860 | Wheaton College (Illinois) [39] |
1861 | North Central College (as Plainfield College) [40] Grinnell College [41] |
1862 | Baker University (co-ed secondary classes began in 1858)[ citation needed] |
1863 | Kansas State University [42] [43] |
1864 | Swarthmore College [44] |
1866 | University of Wisconsin–Madison (women admitted to classes in the " Normal Department" in 1863 and all college classes about 1866, although separate Female College and separate graduation existed until 1874) [45] [46] |
1867 |
Carleton College
[47] DePauw University [48] Hiram College (co-ed secondary classes began in 1850)[ citation needed] Indiana University [49] [50] Lebanon Valley College [51] McDaniel College [52] |
1868 |
University of Missouri
[53] Oregon State University (co-ed secondary classes began about 1858; chartered as college in 1868)[ citation needed] Wells College (Coeducational in 2005) |
1869 |
Berea College
[54] Boston University [55] Iowa State University [56] [57] University of Kansas (co-ed secondary classes began in 1866) [58] University of Minnesota Northwestern University [59] Ohio University [60] Washington University in St. Louis [17] |
1870 |
Allegheny College
[61] University of California, Berkeley [50] [62] Carthage College [63] Cornell University [64] [65] University of Illinois [50] University of Iowa Medical School [66] Knox College [67] Michigan State University [68] College of Wooster [69] |
1871 |
California Wesleyan College Colby College [70] (until 1890, when women were resegregated into separate classes) [50] University of Michigan [71] University of Nebraska-Lincoln [50] Pennsylvania State University [72] Syracuse University [2] University of Vermont |
1872 |
Tusculum College
[73] University of Akron (at that time "Buchtel College")[ citation needed] University of Maine [50] University of Washington (co-ed secondary classes began in 1861; the school was closed at various times between 1862 and 1869) Wesleyan University (until 1912, when it became all male once again) [74] |
1873 |
North Georgia College & State University (then North Georgia Agricultural College; since 2013 merged into the
University of North Georgia)[
citation needed] Ohio State University [50] Susquehanna University [75] Texas Christian University[ citation needed] |
1875 |
Purdue University
[76] St. Olaf College [77] |
1876 | University of Oregon [50] |
1877 |
University of Colorado at Boulder
[50] Ohio Wesleyan University [78] |
1878 | Hope College[ citation needed] |
1880 |
Bridgewater College (the first private liberal arts college in Virginia to be co-ed, and one of the first of its kind in the south)[
citation needed] Emerson College[ citation needed] University of Pennsylvania (women previously admitted to non-degree-granting programs in 1876) [79] University of Southern California[ citation needed] Ursinus College [80] |
1881 |
Coe College[
citation needed] Hendrix College[ citation needed] |
1882 | University of South Dakota[ citation needed] |
1883 |
Bucknell University
[65] Florida State University (The school was a coeducational seminary beginning in 1851, and was chartered as a coeducational university in 1883. However, in 1905, a reorganization of the state's higher education system converted what was then Florida State College to a women's school, Florida State College for Women. It returned to coeducation in 1947, adopting its current name at that time.) [81] Middlebury College[ citation needed] University of Texas[ citation needed] |
1884 | University of North Dakota [50] |
1885 | University of Mississippi[ citation needed] |
1886 | University of Nevada, Reno [50] |
1887 |
Baylor University[
citation needed] Gallaudet University (at the time "National Deaf-Mute College) [82] Occidental College Pomona College[ citation needed] Stetson University (co-ed secondary classes began in 1883) University of Wyoming [50] |
1888 |
George Washington University Guilford College (co-ed secondary classes began in 1837; it became a college in 1888) [83] University of Kentucky Tulane University Pharmaceutical School |
1889 |
Elon University
[84] West Virginia University [85] |
1891 |
University of Arizona
[50] George Fox University (at the time "Pacific College") College of Idaho Stanford University |
1892 |
Auburn University University of Chicago (women resegregated into separate classes in 1902 for their first two years) [50] University of New Mexico [50] University of Oklahoma [50] American International College [86] |
1893 |
University of Alabama
[50] University of Connecticut Johns Hopkins University Graduate School Macalester College [87] University of Tennessee |
1894 | Boalt Hall [88] |
1895 |
Beloit College University of Montana [50] University of Pittsburgh University of South Carolina |
1897 |
University at Buffalo Law School University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (graduate students) |
1899 | Eastern Michigan University (co-ed classes in the " Normal school" began 1852; chartered as college in 1899) |
The original 1849 charter specifies 'a Seminary of learning for the instruction of both sexes in science and literature.'
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The following is a list of mixed-sex colleges and universities in the United States, listed in the order that mixed-sex students were admitted to degree-granting college-level courses.
Many of the earliest mixed-education institutes offered co-educational secondary school-level classes for three or four years before co-ed college-level courses began – these situations are noted in the parentheticals below.
1837 | Oberlin College (women were admitted to the "preparatory department" in 1833) [1][ dead link] [2] [3] |
1844 | Hillsdale College [3] [4] [5] |
1845 | Franklin College (co-ed secondary-level classes began in 1842 at "Indiana Baptist Manual Labor Institute"; chartered as Franklin College in 1845) [6] [7] [3] |
1847 |
Lawrence University
Baylor College (until 1851 Baylor offered "coeducation" in the same building, although in separate classes; after 1851 the school fully segregated the sexes until 1887) [3] [8] [9] [10][ unreliable source?] [11] |
1847 | Earlham College [12] |
1849 |
New-York Central College (disestablished 1860)
[13] Otterbein University [3] [14] |
1851 | Waynesburg College [15] |
1852 | Westminster College [16] |
1853 |
Antioch College
[17] Cornell College (originally Iowa Conference Seminary, co-ed classes start with founding 1853) [18] Lawrence University (co-ed secondary classes began in 1849) [19] Willamette University (co-ed secondary classes began in 1842) [20] |
1854 |
Muskingum University
[21] Pacific University (co-ed secondary classes began in 1849) [22] Urbana University (co-ed secondary classes began in 1850) [23] [24] |
1855 |
Eureka College (First school in Illinois and third in the nation to admit women on an equal basis with men at its founding)
[25]
Bates College
[26]
[27] |
1856 |
Baldwin University (now Baldwin Wallace University) (co-ed secondary classes began in 1845)
[28] University of Evansville (formerly Moore's Hill College) [29] St. Lawrence University [30] Wilberforce University (first coeducational HBCU in the United States)[ citation needed] |
1857 |
Alfred University (co-ed secondary classes began in 1836; it received its university charter in 1857)
[31]
[32] Hamline University (co-ed secondary classes began in 1854) [33] |
1858 | University of Mount Union (co-ed classes began in 1846; chartered as college in 1858) [34] |
1859 |
Adrian College (four women enrolled as early as 1855 when Michigan Union College; Adrian itself was open to women from the onset under equal curriculum)
[35]
Cooper Union (free college; enrollment open to all genders, races, religions, economic classes)
[36]
[37] |
1860 | Wheaton College (Illinois) [39] |
1861 | North Central College (as Plainfield College) [40] Grinnell College [41] |
1862 | Baker University (co-ed secondary classes began in 1858)[ citation needed] |
1863 | Kansas State University [42] [43] |
1864 | Swarthmore College [44] |
1866 | University of Wisconsin–Madison (women admitted to classes in the " Normal Department" in 1863 and all college classes about 1866, although separate Female College and separate graduation existed until 1874) [45] [46] |
1867 |
Carleton College
[47] DePauw University [48] Hiram College (co-ed secondary classes began in 1850)[ citation needed] Indiana University [49] [50] Lebanon Valley College [51] McDaniel College [52] |
1868 |
University of Missouri
[53] Oregon State University (co-ed secondary classes began about 1858; chartered as college in 1868)[ citation needed] Wells College (Coeducational in 2005) |
1869 |
Berea College
[54] Boston University [55] Iowa State University [56] [57] University of Kansas (co-ed secondary classes began in 1866) [58] University of Minnesota Northwestern University [59] Ohio University [60] Washington University in St. Louis [17] |
1870 |
Allegheny College
[61] University of California, Berkeley [50] [62] Carthage College [63] Cornell University [64] [65] University of Illinois [50] University of Iowa Medical School [66] Knox College [67] Michigan State University [68] College of Wooster [69] |
1871 |
California Wesleyan College Colby College [70] (until 1890, when women were resegregated into separate classes) [50] University of Michigan [71] University of Nebraska-Lincoln [50] Pennsylvania State University [72] Syracuse University [2] University of Vermont |
1872 |
Tusculum College
[73] University of Akron (at that time "Buchtel College")[ citation needed] University of Maine [50] University of Washington (co-ed secondary classes began in 1861; the school was closed at various times between 1862 and 1869) Wesleyan University (until 1912, when it became all male once again) [74] |
1873 |
North Georgia College & State University (then North Georgia Agricultural College; since 2013 merged into the
University of North Georgia)[
citation needed] Ohio State University [50] Susquehanna University [75] Texas Christian University[ citation needed] |
1875 |
Purdue University
[76] St. Olaf College [77] |
1876 | University of Oregon [50] |
1877 |
University of Colorado at Boulder
[50] Ohio Wesleyan University [78] |
1878 | Hope College[ citation needed] |
1880 |
Bridgewater College (the first private liberal arts college in Virginia to be co-ed, and one of the first of its kind in the south)[
citation needed] Emerson College[ citation needed] University of Pennsylvania (women previously admitted to non-degree-granting programs in 1876) [79] University of Southern California[ citation needed] Ursinus College [80] |
1881 |
Coe College[
citation needed] Hendrix College[ citation needed] |
1882 | University of South Dakota[ citation needed] |
1883 |
Bucknell University
[65] Florida State University (The school was a coeducational seminary beginning in 1851, and was chartered as a coeducational university in 1883. However, in 1905, a reorganization of the state's higher education system converted what was then Florida State College to a women's school, Florida State College for Women. It returned to coeducation in 1947, adopting its current name at that time.) [81] Middlebury College[ citation needed] University of Texas[ citation needed] |
1884 | University of North Dakota [50] |
1885 | University of Mississippi[ citation needed] |
1886 | University of Nevada, Reno [50] |
1887 |
Baylor University[
citation needed] Gallaudet University (at the time "National Deaf-Mute College) [82] Occidental College Pomona College[ citation needed] Stetson University (co-ed secondary classes began in 1883) University of Wyoming [50] |
1888 |
George Washington University Guilford College (co-ed secondary classes began in 1837; it became a college in 1888) [83] University of Kentucky Tulane University Pharmaceutical School |
1889 |
Elon University
[84] West Virginia University [85] |
1891 |
University of Arizona
[50] George Fox University (at the time "Pacific College") College of Idaho Stanford University |
1892 |
Auburn University University of Chicago (women resegregated into separate classes in 1902 for their first two years) [50] University of New Mexico [50] University of Oklahoma [50] American International College [86] |
1893 |
University of Alabama
[50] University of Connecticut Johns Hopkins University Graduate School Macalester College [87] University of Tennessee |
1894 | Boalt Hall [88] |
1895 |
Beloit College University of Montana [50] University of Pittsburgh University of South Carolina |
1897 |
University at Buffalo Law School University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (graduate students) |
1899 | Eastern Michigan University (co-ed classes in the " Normal school" began 1852; chartered as college in 1899) |
The original 1849 charter specifies 'a Seminary of learning for the instruction of both sexes in science and literature.'
university of illinois coeducational 1870.
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