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"New study finds women’s colleges are better equipped to help their students." Horowitz, Helen Lefkowitz. Alma Mater: Design and Experience in the Women's Colleges from Their Nineteenth-Century Beginnings to the 1930s, Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1993 (2nd edition). Rosenberg, Rosalind.
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.
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."
The following is a timeline of women's colleges in the United States. These are institutions of higher education in the United States whose student population comprises exclusively, or almost exclusively, women. They are often liberal arts colleges. There are approximately 35 active women's colleges in the U.S. as of 2021. [1]
Ivy League schools are considered the cream of the crop, but see how they rank on Stacker's list of the best U.S. colleges based on Niche's 2025 rankings.
With the arrival of fall each year comes a newly released “Best Colleges” guide by U.S. News & World Report that ranks four-year colleges in America.. The highly anticipated 2025 edition cites ...
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 .
Environmentalist Ellen Swallow Richards was the first woman admitted to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, an impressive feat in and of itself.What's even more admirable was her work in science, a field in which women faced many obstacles, as well as the time she spent getting her Ph.D. in chemistry from MIT– well, almost.