List of mixed-sex colleges and universities in the United States
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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.
Earliest mixed-sex higher education institutes (through 19th century)
- Schools that were previously all-female are listed in bold.
1827 | Cumberland College[1][2][dubious ][3] |
1830 | Mississippi College (co-ed secondary classes began in 1826)[4] |
1837 | Oberlin College (co-ed secondary classes began in 1833)[5][6][7][8] |
1844 | Hillsdale College[9] |
1845 | Franklin College (co-ed secondary-level classes began in 1842 at "Indiana Baptist Manual Labor Institute"; chartered as Franklin College in 1845)[10][11] |
1847 | 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)[12][13][14] |
1849 | New-York Central College (disestablished 1860) Otterbein University[15] |
1851 | Waynesburg College[16] |
1852 | Westminster College[17] |
1853 | Antioch College[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] Urbana University (co-ed secondary classes began in 1850)[22] |
1855 | Bates College[23][24] University of Iowa (first coeducational public or state university in the United States)[6][7] |
1856 | Baldwin University (now Baldwin Wallace University) (co-ed secondary classes began in 1845)[25] St. Lawrence University[26] Wilberforce University (first coeducational HBCU in the United States) |
1857 | Alfred University (co-ed secondary classes began in 1836; it received its university charter in 1857)[27][28] Hamline University (co-ed secondary classes began in 1854)[29] |
1858 | University of Mount Union (co-ed classes began in 1846; chartered as college in 1858)[30] |
1859 | Cooper Union Olivet College (co-ed secondary classes began in 1844; chartered as college in 1859)[31] |
1862 | Baker University (co-ed secondary classes began in 1858)[citation needed] |
1863 | Kansas State University[32][33] |
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)[34][35] |
1867 | Carleton College[36] DePauw University[37] Hiram College (co-ed secondary classes began in 1850) Indiana University[8][38] Lebanon Valley College[39] |
1868 | Oregon State University (co-ed secondary classes began about 1858; chartered as college in 1868) University of Missouri[40] |
1869 | Berea College[41] Boston University[42] Iowa State University[43][44] University of Kansas (co-ed secondary classes began in 1866)[45] University of Minnesota Northwestern University[46] Ohio University[47] Swarthmore College[48] Washington University in St. Louis[18] |
1870 | University of California, Berkeley[38][49] Cornell University[50][51] University of Illinois[38] University of Iowa Medical School[52] Knox College[53] Michigan State University[54] College of Wooster[55] |
1871 | California Wesleyan College Colby College[56] (until 1890, when women were resegregated into separate classes)[38] University of Michigan[57] University of Nebraska-Lincoln[38] Pennsylvania State University[58] Syracuse University[7] University of Vermont |
1872 | University of Akron (at that time "Buchtel College") University of Maine[38] University of Washington (co-ed secondary classes began in 1861; the school was closed at various times between 1862 and 1869)[59] Wesleyan University (until 1912, when it became all male once again)[60] |
1873 | North Georgia College & State University (then North Georgia Agricultural College; since 2013 merged into the University of North Georgia) Ohio State University[38] Texas Christian University |
1875 | Purdue University[61] |
1876 | University of Oregon[38] |
1877 | Ohio Wesleyan University[63] University of Colorado at Boulder[38] |
1878 | Hope College |
1880 | Emerson College University of Pennsylvania (women previously admitted to non-degree-granting programs in 1876)[64] University of Southern California 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) |
1881 | Coe College Hendrix College |
1882 | University of South Dakota |
1883 | Bucknell University[51] 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.)[65] Middlebury College University of Texas |
1884 | University of North Dakota[38] |
1885 | University of Mississippi |
1886 | University of Nevada, Reno[38] |
1887 | Baylor University Pomona College Stetson University (co-ed secondary classes began in 1883) University of Wyoming[38] |
1888 | George Washington University Guilford College (co-ed secondary classes began in 1837; it became a college in 1888)[66] University of Kentucky Pomona College Tulane University Pharmaceutical School |
1889 | West Virginia University[67] |
1891 | University of Arizona[38] College of Idaho Stanford University George Fox University (at that time "Pacific College") |
1892 | Auburn University University of Chicago (women resegregated into separate classes in 1902 for their first two years)[38] University of New Mexico[38] University of Oklahoma[38] |
1893 | University of Alabama[38] University of Connecticut Johns Hopkins University Graduate School Macalester College[69] University of Tennessee |
1894 | Boalt Hall[70] |
1895 | Beloit College University of Montana[38] 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) |
Dates USA educational institutions became mixed-sex through 2012
- Virtually all of the thousands of institutions of higher education that were founded after Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 are coeducational.
- Schools that were previously all-female are listed in bold.
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