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Loretto Academy (PK-5 coed, 6-12 girls' only) Houston. Young Women's College Preparatory Academy; Duchesne Academy; Incarnate Word Academy; Saint Agnes Academy; The Lawson Academy (formerly William A. Lawson Institute for Peace and Prosperity (WALIPP) - Texas Southern University (TSU) Preparatory Academy) - girls' program [8] KIPP Voyage ...
American Academy for Girls (now Üsküdar American Academy) (Istanbul, formerly Constantinople) Closed. Istanbul Girls High School; Zappeion (Constantinople, now Istanbul) - Established in 1875, it was a school for girls catering to the Greek population. Ayşe Sıdıka Hanım , an ethnic Turk, attended this school. Johann Strauss, author of ...
Madame Perdreville's School for Girls (founded in 1818) [2] Marillac College, St. Louis (closed in 1974) Maryville University, Town and Country (co-ed since 1968) Notre Dame College, St. Louis (closed in 1977) Patee Female College, St. Joseph (closed in 1868) St. Joseph Female College, St. Joseph (closed in 1881) St. Louis Female Academy ...
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Education for girls and women was originally provided within the family, by local dame schools and public elementary schools, and at female seminaries found in every colony. Access to this education was however limited to women from families with the means to pay tuition and placed its focus on "ladylike" accomplishments rather than academic ...
Sophia Girl's College (Autonomous), Ajmer; Mody University of Science and Technology; ... Armed Forces Nursing Academy, Daejeon (co-ed since 2012) Europe. United Kingdom
Many of the schools began as either school for girls, academies (which during the late 18th and early 19th centuries was the equivalent of secondary schools), or as a teaching seminary (which during the early 19th century were forms of secular higher education), rather than as a chartered college. During the 19th century in the United States ...
Many started first as girls' seminaries or academies. Salem College is the oldest female educational institution in the South and Wesleyan College is the first that was established specifically as a college for women, closely followed by Judson College in 1838. Some schools, such as Salem College, offer coeducational courses at the graduate level.