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  2. Trinity Washington University, Washington (primary undergraduate college remains women-only; Trinity College until 2004) Washington College of Law at American University, Tenleytown (although female-serving and originally women-only, first admitted males in 1897) Dunbarton College of the Holy Cross, Washington, D.C., founded in 1935, closed in 1973

  3. Women's colleges in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Midway University in Kentucky announced in May 2016 that it would admit men into its daytime undergraduate program, the last component of the institution that remained women-only, effective that August. In announcing the move, the school's president noted that many surveys indicated that only 2% of high school girls wanted to attend a women ...

  4. List of women's colleges - Wikipedia

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    A women's college is an institution of higher education where enrollment is all-female. In the United States, almost all women's colleges are private undergraduate institutions, with many offering coeducational graduate programs.

  5. Timeline of women's colleges in the United States - Wikipedia

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    1847: Kentucky Female Orphan School (now Midway University) was the only women's college in Kentucky until 2016 when it began admitting male undergraduate students. 1847: Academy of Mount Saint Vincent (now University of Mount Saint Vincent) was founded by the Sisters of Charity of New York.

  6. Seven Sisters (colleges) - Wikipedia

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    The consortium was founded in 1915 when Vassar President Henry Noble MacCracken called Vassar, Wellesley, Smith, and Mount Holyoke together “to deliver women opportunities for higher education that would improve the quality of life for the human family and that would put them on an equal footing with men in a democracy that was about to offer them the vote.” [3] The success of this Four ...

  7. Women's college - Wikipedia

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    Brescia University College was Canada's only university-level women's educational institution until it merged with Western University in 2024. [8] Mount Saint Vincent University in Halifax, Nova Scotia was originally founded as a women's college in 1875, but became co-educational in 1967.

  8. Category:Women's universities and colleges in the United ...

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    This category should be limited to articles on colleges in the United States which are currently women-only, and articles on the subject of U.S. women's colleges in general. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Women's universities and colleges in the United States .

  9. Vassar College - Wikipedia

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    An 1861 oil portrait of Matthew Vassar by Charles Loring Elliott. Vassar was founded as a women's school under the name Vassar Female College in 1861. [6] Its first president was Milo P. Jewett, who had previously been first president of another women's school, Judson College; [7] he led a staff of ten professors and twenty-one instructors. [8]