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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.
Mount Holyoke College is a private women's liberal arts college in South Hadley, Massachusetts, United States. [10] It is the oldest member of the historic Seven Sisters colleges, a group of historically female colleges in the Northeastern United States. [11]
Vassar was the second of the Seven Sisters colleges, higher education schools that were strictly for women, and historically sister institutions to the all-male Ivy League colleges. It was chartered by its namesake, brewer Matthew Vassar, in 1861 in the Hudson Valley, about 70 miles (110 km) north of New York City.
Bryn Mawr College (/ ˌ b r ɪ n ˈ m ɑː r / brin-MAR; Welsh: [ˌbɾɨ̞nˈmau̯ɾ]) [9] is a private women's liberal arts college in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, United States.Founded as a Quaker institution in 1885, Bryn Mawr is one of the Seven Sister colleges, a group of historically women's colleges in the United States.
Radcliffe College was a women's liberal arts college in Cambridge, Massachusetts, that was founded in 1879.In 1999, it was fully incorporated into Harvard College.The college was named for the early Harvard benefactor Anne Mowlson (née Radcliffe) and was one of the Seven Sisters colleges.
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.
1871: Ursuline College was established by the Sisters of Ursuline as a college for women in Cleveland, Ohio. Ursuline College is still a women-focused institution with less than 10% men in attendance. 1875: Wellesley College was chartered in 1870 and opened in 1875 as a college for women. It is one of the Seven Sisters and remains a college for ...
Smith College is a private liberal arts women's college in Northampton, Massachusetts, United States.It was chartered in 1871 by Sophia Smith and opened in 1875. It is a member of the historic Seven Sisters colleges, a group of women's colleges in the Northeastern United States.