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The Seven Sisters are a group of seven private liberal arts colleges in the Northeastern United States that are historically women's colleges. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Barnard College , Bryn Mawr College , Mount Holyoke College , Smith College , and Wellesley College are still women's colleges.
None of the coordinate colleges were investor-owned. [1] [2] Some, but not all, of the Seven Sisters can be classified as coordinate colleges with a specific originally male-only partner school. However, as a group, they have maintained an equivalent association with the Ivy League schools, conference-to-conference. [3]
The Chicago Conservatory College (1857–1981, Chicago) Chicago Technical College (1904–1977, Chicago) Evanston College for Ladies (1871–1873, Evanston, Illinois), merged with Northwestern University in 1873
Vassar College was the first of the Seven Sisters to be chartered as a college in 1861. In 1840, the first Catholic women's college Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College was founded by Saint Mother Theodore Guerin of the Sisters of Providence in Indiana as an academy, later becoming the college. The college became co-educational in 2015.
A number of liberal arts colleges are involved in Project Pericles or the Eco League. Other well-known consortia in the Eastern United States include the Little Three, Colby-Bates-Bowdoin Consortium, the Seven Sisters Colleges, and the Little Ivies.
This list includes accredited, degree-granting institutions and bona fide institutions of higher learning that operated before accreditation existed. All had at least one location within the state of Illinois , and all have since discontinued operations or their operations were taken over by another similar institution of higher learning.
University of Chicago: Chicago: 1890 18,339 Research University Columbia College Chicago: Chicago: 1890 6,646 Master's Concordia University Chicago: River Forest: 1864 5,354 Doctoral/Professional DePaul University: Chicago: 1898 20,917 Research University Dominican University: River Forest: 1901 3,196 Master's East–West University: Chicago ...
Pages in category "Seven Sister Colleges" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total. ... Seven Sisters (colleges) B. Barnard College; Bryn Mawr ...