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The following is a list of women's colleges in the United States, organized by state. These are institutions of higher education in the United States whose student populations are composed exclusively or almost exclusively of women. There are approximately sixty active women's colleges in the U.S., most commonly liberal arts colleges.
The Women's College Coalition (WCC) was founded in 1979 and describes itself as an "association of women's colleges and universities – public and private, independent and church-related, two- and four-year – in the United States and Canada whose primary mission is the education and advancement of women." [16]
[2] [141] As of 2011, among adults 25 and older, 10.6 million U.S. women have master's degrees or higher, compared to 10.5 million men. Measured by shares, about 10.2 percent of women have advanced degrees compared to 10.9 percent of men—a gap steadily narrowing in recent years.
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From 1990 until 2015, the number of males enrolled in college increased by 41 percent, and the number of female students rose by 53 percent. [13] In 2015/2016, 51% of degrees earned by males were bachelor's, which is slightly higher than that of females for whom 48% of degrees earned were bachelor's degrees. [13]
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