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Timeline of women's colleges in the United States

Index Timeline of women's colleges in the United States

The following is a timeline of women's colleges in the United States. [1]

285 relations: Academy (English school), Agnes Scott College, Albertus Magnus College, All Saints' College (Vicksburg), Alverno College, American Civil War, Andrew College, Annhurst College, Anniston, Alabama, Arcadia University, Athens State University, Bachelor's degree, Barber–Scotia College, Bardstown, Kentucky, Barnard College, Bay Path University, Bellarmine University, Benedictine College, Bennett College, Bennington College, Bethlehem Female Seminary, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, Blue Mountain College, Boston, Bradford College (United States), Bradford, Massachusetts, Brenau University, Brescia University, Brookhaven, Mississippi, Brown University, Bryn Mawr College, Burlington, New Jersey, Carnegie Mellon University, Case Western Reserve University, Cedar Crest College, Centenary College of Louisiana, Charlotte, North Carolina, Chatham University, Cherokee Female Seminary, Cherokee Male Seminary, Chestnut Hill College, Chowan University, Cleveland, Clinton, Mississippi, College of Mount Saint Vincent, College of New Rochelle, College of Saint Benedict and Saint John's University, College of Saint Elizabeth, College of Saint Mary, College of Saint Teresa, ..., Colorado Women's College, Columbia College (Missouri), Columbia College (South Carolina), Concord, North Carolina, Connecticut College, Corinth, Mississippi, Corona Female College, Cottey College, Curriculum, Daviess County, Kentucky, Decatur, Georgia, Doane Academy, Dominican University (Illinois), Douglass Residential College, Drexel University, Drexel University College of Medicine, Elizabeth Female Academy, Elmira College, Elms College, Emma Willard School, Emmanuel College (Massachusetts), Evelyn College for Women, Farmville, Virginia, Female seminary, Financial endowment, Florida State University, Frances Shimer, Fulton, Missouri, Gainesville, Georgia, Garland Junior College, George Washington Doane, George Washington University, Georgetown, Kentucky, Georgia College & State University, Georgia Institute of Technology, Georgian Court University, Germantown, Philadelphia, Glendale, Kentucky, Goucher College, Great books, Great Lakes region, Green River Female Academy, Greensboro College, Greensboro, North Carolina, Grenada College, H. Sophie Newcomb Memorial College, Hamilton College (Kentucky), Hartford Female Seminary, Hartford, Connecticut, Harvard University, Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz, Higher education in the United States, Historically black colleges and universities, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Hollins University, Holly Springs Female Institute, Holly Springs, Mississippi, Hunter College, Huston–Tillotson University, Immaculata University, Indiana University, Ipswich Female Seminary, Ipswich, Massachusetts, James Madison University, Joanne V. Creighton, Johnson & Wales University, Judson College (Alabama), Junior college, Kirkland College, LaGrange College, LaGrange, Georgia, Lambuth University, Lasell College, Lenoir, North Carolina, Lesley University, Lexington, Kentucky, Liberal arts colleges in the United States, Limestone College, Lindenwood University, List of current and historical women's universities and colleges in the United States, Litchfield Female Academy, Litchfield, Connecticut, Longwood University, Louisburg College, Louisville, Kentucky, Loyola Marymount University, Loyola University Chicago, Lynnland Female Institute, MacMurray College, Manhattanville College, Margaret Morrison Carnegie College, Marion, Alabama, Mary Allen Seminary, Mary Baldwin University, Mary Lyon, Mary Sharp College, Marymount Manhattan College, Massachusetts, Mercer University, Mercyhurst University, Meredith College, Meridian Female College, Miami University, Midway College School of Pharmacy, Midway University, Millersburg Military Institute, Millersburg, Kentucky, Mills College, Mississippi, Mississippi River, Mississippi University for Women, Mississippi University for Women v. Hogan, Mixed-sex education, Moore College of Art and Design, Moravian Church, Moravian College, Mount Hermon Female Seminary, Mount Holyoke College, Mount Mary University, Mount Sacred Heart College, Mount Saint Agnes College, Mount St. Joseph University, Mount St. Mary's University (Los Angeles), Mount Vernon Seminary and College, Mundelein College, North Carolina, Notre Dame College, Notre Dame de Namur University, Notre Dame of Maryland University, Ohio, Ohio Wesleyan Female College, Ohio Wesleyan University, Oread Institute, Ottumwa Heights College, Owensboro, Kentucky, Pembroke College in Brown University, Pepper Pike, Ohio, Philadelphia School of Design for Women, Pine Manor College, Pitzer College, Port Gibson Female College, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, Providence, Rhode Island, Queens University of Charlotte, Radcliffe College, Raleigh, North Carolina, Randolph College, Regis College (Massachusetts), Richmond, Virginia, Roanoke, Virginia, Rocky Mountains, Rosemont College, Russell Sage College, Rutgers University, Saint Joseph's College of Maine, Saint Mary's College (Indiana), Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College, Salem College, Sarah Lawrence College, Sarah Pierce, Sayre School, Scripps College, Secondary school, Seton Hill University, Seven Sisters (colleges), Sharon Female College, Shimer College, Shorter University, Simmons College, Skidmore College, Smith College, Southern United States, Southern Virginia University, Spalding University, Spelman College, St. Catherine University, St. Charles, Missouri, St. Joseph's College (Brooklyn/Patchogue, New York), Staunton, Virginia, Stephens College, Stern College for Women, Sullins College, Supreme Court of the United States, Susanna Rowson, Sweet Briar College, Synodical College, Texas, Texas Woman's University, The Boston Globe, The Roanoke Times, Thomas More College (Kentucky), Tift College, Todd County, Kentucky, Trinity Washington University, Troy, New York, Union Army, United States Department of Education, University of Denver, University of Detroit Mercy, University of Mary Hardin–Baylor, University of Mary Washington, University of Massachusetts Press, University of Memphis, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, University of Saint Joseph (Connecticut), University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma, University of the Incarnate Word, University of Virginia, University of West Alabama, Ursuline College, Ursulines, Vassar College, Vicksburg, Mississippi, Virginia Union University, Washington Female Seminary, Wellesley College, Wells College, Wesleyan College, Western College for Women, Wheaton College (Massachusetts), Whitworth Female College, William Peace University, Wilson College (Pennsylvania), Winston-Salem, North Carolina, Woman, Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania, Women's college, Women's College Coalition, Women's College of the University of Denver, Women's colleges in the Southern United States, Women's colleges in the United States, Worcester, Massachusetts, World War II, Zilpah P. 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Academy (English school)

Academy schools are state-funded schools in England which are directly funded by the Department for Education and independent of local authority control.

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Agnes Scott College

Agnes Scott College (commonly known as Agnes Scott) is a private liberal arts college in downtown Decatur, Georgia.

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Albertus Magnus College

Albertus Magnus College is a Catholic private liberal arts college in New Haven, Connecticut, United States.

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All Saints' College (Vicksburg)

All Saints' Episcopal College was originally an Episcopal college for women in Vicksburg, Mississippi.

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Alverno College

Alverno College is a Roman Catholic, four-year, independent, liberal arts college, historically and still primarily a women's college located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

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American Civil War

The American Civil War (also known by other names) was a war fought in the United States from 1861 to 1865.

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Andrew College

Andrew College is a private, liberal arts college in Cuthbert, Randolph County, Georgia, United States.

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Annhurst College

Annhurst College was a private Catholic college in South Woodstock, Connecticut.

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Anniston, Alabama

Anniston is a city in Calhoun County in the state of Alabama.

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Arcadia University

Arcadia University is a private university located in Glenside, Pennsylvania, United States, on the outskirts of Philadelphia.

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Athens State University

Athens State University is a two-year upper level university located in Athens, Alabama, United States.

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Bachelor's degree

A bachelor's degree (from Middle Latin baccalaureus) or baccalaureate (from Modern Latin baccalaureatus) is an undergraduate academic degree awarded by colleges and universities upon completion of a course of study lasting three to seven years (depending on institution and academic discipline).

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Barber–Scotia College

Barber–Scotia College is a historically black college in Concord, North Carolina.

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Bardstown, Kentucky

Bardstown is a home rule-class city in Nelson County, Kentucky, in the United States.

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Barnard College

Barnard College is a private women's liberal arts college in New York City, New York, United States.

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Bay Path University

Bay Path University is a private university located in Longmeadow, Massachusetts.

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Bellarmine University

Bellarmine University (BU) is an independent, private Catholic university in Louisville, Kentucky, United States.

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Benedictine College

Benedictine College is a co-educational university in Atchison, Kansas, United States, founded in 1971 by the merger of St.

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Bennett College

Bennett College is a private four-year historically black liberal arts college for women located in Greensboro, North Carolina.

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Bennington College

Bennington College is a private, nonsectarian liberal arts college in Bennington, Vermont.

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Bethlehem Female Seminary

The Bethlehem Female Seminary was established in 1742 in Germantown, Pennsylvania and was the first Protestant boarding school for girls in what became the United States.

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Bethlehem, Pennsylvania

Bethlehem is a city in Lehigh and Northampton counties in the Lehigh Valley region of the eastern portion of the U.S. state of Pennsylvania.

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Blue Mountain College

Blue Mountain College (BMC) is a private liberal arts college, supported by the Mississippi Baptist Convention, located in the northeastern Mississippi town of Blue Mountain not far from Tupelo.

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Boston

Boston is the capital city and most populous municipality of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States.

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Bradford College (United States)

Bradford College operated in the part of Haverhill, Massachusetts that was once the town of Bradford.

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Bradford, Massachusetts

Bradford is a village and former town, in Essex County, Massachusetts, United States.

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Brenau University

Brenau University is a private, not-for-profit, undergraduate- and graduate-level higher education institution with multiple campuses and online programs.

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Brescia University

Brescia University is a coeducational Catholic university in Owensboro, Kentucky, in the United States.

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Brookhaven, Mississippi

Brookhaven is a small city in Lincoln County, Mississippi, United States, 60 miles south of the state capital of Jackson.

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Brown University

Brown University is a private Ivy League research university in Providence, Rhode Island, United States.

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Bryn Mawr College

Bryn Mawr College (Welsh) is a women's liberal arts college in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania.

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Burlington, New Jersey

Burlington is a city in Burlington County, New Jersey, United States and a suburb of Philadelphia.

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Carnegie Mellon University

Carnegie Mellon University (commonly known as CMU) is a private research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

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Case Western Reserve University

Case Western Reserve University (also known as Case Western Reserve, Case Western, Case, and CWRU) is a private doctorate-granting university in Cleveland, Ohio.

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Cedar Crest College

Cedar Crest College is a private liberal arts women's college in Allentown, Pennsylvania, in the United States.

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Centenary College of Louisiana

Centenary College of Louisiana is a private, four-year arts and sciences college located in Shreveport, Louisiana.

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Charlotte, North Carolina

Charlotte is the most populous city in the U.S. state of North Carolina.

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Chatham University

Chatham University is an American university that has coeducational academic programs through the doctoral level, with its main campus located in the Shadyside neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States.

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Cherokee Female Seminary

The Cherokee Female Seminary, (not to be confused with the first Cherokee Female Seminary), serves as the centerpiece of Northeastern State University, located in Tahlequah, Oklahoma, United States.

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Cherokee Male Seminary

The Cherokee Male Seminary was a tribal college established in 1846 by the Cherokee Nation in Indian Territory.

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Chestnut Hill College

Chestnut Hill College is a coeducational Roman Catholic college in the Chestnut Hill section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania within the Archdiocese of Philadelphia.

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Chowan University

Chowan University, from the North Carolina Collection's website at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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Cleveland

Cleveland is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio, and the county seat of Cuyahoga County.

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Clinton, Mississippi

Clinton is a city in Hinds County, Mississippi, United States.

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College of Mount Saint Vincent

The College of Mount Saint Vincent (CMSV) is a Catholic liberal arts college located in the northwest corner of the Riverdale section of The Bronx, New York, adjacent to the Yonkers border.

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College of New Rochelle

The College of New Rochelle (CNR) is a private Catholic college with its main campus located in New Rochelle, New York.

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College of Saint Benedict and Saint John's University

The College of Saint Benedict (CSB), a women's college, and Saint John's University (SJU), a men's college, are private liberal arts colleges respectively located in St. Joseph and Collegeville, Minnesota, United States, near St. Cloud.

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College of Saint Elizabeth

The College of Saint Elizabeth (CSE) is a private Roman Catholic, coeducational, four-year, liberal arts college in Morris Township, Morris County, New Jersey, United States.

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College of Saint Mary

College of Saint Mary is a Catholic women's university located in Omaha, Nebraska.

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College of Saint Teresa

The College of Saint Teresa was a Catholic women's college in Winona, Minnesota.

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Colorado Women's College

Colorado Women's College is a women's college in Denver, Colorado that opened in 1909 as a private, independent, institution.

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Columbia College (Missouri)

Columbia College, also known as Columbia College of Missouri, is a private non-profit independent liberal arts and sciences college based in Columbia, Missouri, United States.

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Columbia College (South Carolina)

Columbia College is a private liberal arts women's college in Columbia, South Carolina.

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Concord, North Carolina

Concord (/ˈkɒn.kɔɹd/ or /ˈkaŋ.kəɹd/) is a city in Cabarrus County, in the U.S. state of North Carolina.

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Connecticut College

Connecticut College (Conn College or Conn) is a private liberal arts college located in New London, Connecticut.

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Corinth, Mississippi

Corinth is a city in and the county seat of Alcorn County, Mississippi, United States.

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Corona Female College

Corona Female College was a female seminary, located in Corinth, Mississippi.

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Cottey College

Cottey College, located in Nevada, Missouri is an independent, liberal arts and sciences college for women.

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Curriculum

In education, a curriculum (plural: curricula or curriculums) is broadly defined as the totality of student experiences that occur in the educational process.

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Daviess County, Kentucky

Daviess County ("Davis"), is a county in the U.S. state of Kentucky.

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Decatur, Georgia

Decatur is a city in, and the county seat of, DeKalb County, Georgia, United States and is part of the Atlanta metropolitan area.

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Doane Academy

Doane Academy is a coeducational, independent day school located in Burlington, New Jersey.

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Dominican University (Illinois)

Dominican University (DU) is a coeducational, comprehensive, Catholic institution of higher education and research in River Forest, Illinois affiliated with the Sinsinawa Dominican Sisters.

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Douglass Residential College

Douglass Residential College, located in New Brunswick, New Jersey and part of Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is an innovative undergraduate higher education institution specifically for women, which succeeded the liberal arts Douglass College after it was merged with the other undergraduate liberal arts colleges at Rutgers–New Brunswick to form the School of Arts and Sciences in 2007.

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Drexel University

Drexel University is a private research university with its main campus located in the University City neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.

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Drexel University College of Medicine

Drexel University College of Medicine is the medical school of Drexel University.

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Elizabeth Female Academy

The Elizabeth Female Academy, founded in 1818 in the town of Washington, was the first female educational institution in Mississippi.

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Elmira College

Elmira College is a coeducational private liberal arts college located in Elmira, in the U.S. state of New York's Southern Tier region.

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Elms College

The College of Our Lady of the Elms, often called Elms College, is a Catholic liberal arts college located in Chicopee, Massachusetts, near Springfield.

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Emma Willard School

The Emma Willard School, originally called Troy Female Seminary and often referred to simply as Emma, is an independent university-preparatory day and boarding school for young women, located in Troy, New York, on Mount Ida, offering grades 9–12 and postgraduate coursework.

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Emmanuel College (Massachusetts)

Emmanuel College (EC) is a private coeducational Roman Catholic liberal arts college in Boston, Massachusetts.

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Evelyn College for Women

Evelyn College for Women, often shortened to Evelyn College, was the coordinate women's college of Princeton University in Princeton, New Jersey between 1887 and 1897.

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Farmville, Virginia

Farmville is a town in Prince Edward and Cumberland counties in the U.S. state of Virginia.

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Female seminary

A female seminary is a private educational institution for women, popular especially in the United States in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, when opportunities in educational institutions for women were scarce.

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Financial endowment

A financial endowment is a donation of money or property to a nonprofit organization for the ongoing support of that organization.

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Florida State University

Florida State University (Florida State or FSU) is a public space-grant and sea-grant research university with its primary campus on a campus in Tallahassee, Florida.

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Frances Shimer

Frances Shimer (August 21, 1826 – November 10, 1901), born Frances Ann Wood, was an American educator.

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Fulton, Missouri

Fulton is the largest city in and the county seat of Callaway County, Missouri, United States.

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Gainesville, Georgia

The city of Gainesville is the county seat of Hall County, Georgia, United States.

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Garland Junior College

Garland Junior College (1872-1976) was a liberal arts women's college in Boston, Massachusetts.

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George Washington Doane

George Washington Doane (May 27, 1799 – April 27, 1859) was a United States churchman, educator, and bishop in the Episcopal Church for the Diocese of New Jersey.

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George Washington University

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Georgetown, Kentucky

Georgetown is a home rule-class city in Scott County, Kentucky, in the United States.

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Georgia College & State University

Georgia College (Georgia College & State University or GCSU) is a public liberal arts university in Milledgeville, Georgia.

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Georgia Institute of Technology

The Georgia Institute of Technology, commonly referred to as Georgia Tech, is a public research university and institute of technology in Atlanta, Georgia.

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Georgian Court University

Georgian Court University (commonly known as GCU and Georgian Court) is a private Roman Catholic university in Lakewood Township, New Jersey.

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Germantown, Philadelphia

Germantown is an area in Northwest Philadelphia.

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Glendale, Kentucky

Glendale is an unincorporated community in Hardin County, Kentucky, United States.

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Goucher College

Goucher College is a private, coeducational, liberal arts college in Towson, Maryland.

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Great books

The great books are books that are thought to constitute an essential foundation in the literature of Western culture.

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Great Lakes region

The Great Lakes region of North America is a bi-national Canada-American region that includes portions of the eight U.S. states of Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin as well as the Canadian province of Ontario.

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Green River Female Academy

The Green River Female Academy in Todd County, Kentucky is one of the best indications of early 19th century attitudes towards educational equality in the United States and is an example of early Kentucky Georgian, Federal and Greek Revival transitional architecture.

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Greensboro College

Greensboro College is a four-year, independent, coeducational liberal-arts college in Greensboro, North Carolina.

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Greensboro, North Carolina

Greensboro (formerly Greensborough) is a city in the U.S. state of North Carolina.

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Grenada College

Grenada College was a college for women, founded by Baptists, in Grenada, Mississippi in 1851.

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H. Sophie Newcomb Memorial College

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Hamilton College (Kentucky)

Hamilton College was a private women's college in Lexington, Kentucky, operating from 1869 to 1932.

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Hartford Female Seminary

Hartford Female Seminary in Hartford, Connecticut was established in 1823, by Catharine Beecher, making it one of the first major educational institutions for women in the United States.

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Hartford, Connecticut

Hartford is the capital of the U.S. state of Connecticut.

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Harvard University

Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz

Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz (born 1942) is the Sydenham Clark Parsons Professor of American Studies and History, emerita, at Smith College.

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Higher education in the United States

Higher education in the United States is an optional final stage of formal learning following secondary education.

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Historically black colleges and universities

Historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) are institutions of higher education in the United States that were established before the Civil Rights Act of 1964 with the intention of primarily serving the African-American community.

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Hobart and William Smith Colleges

Hobart and William Smith Colleges are private liberal arts colleges in Geneva, New York.

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Hollins University

Hollins University is a private university in Hollins, Virginia.

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Holly Springs Female Institute

The Holly Springs Female Institute was an early female seminary for white women, founded in Holly Springs, Mississippi in 1836.

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Holly Springs, Mississippi

Holly Springs is a city in and county seat of Marshall County, Mississippi, United States at the border with southern Tennessee.

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Hunter College

Hunter College is one of the constituent colleges of the City University of New York, an American public university.

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Huston–Tillotson University

Huston–Tillotson University (abbreviated as HTU) is a private historically black university in Austin, Texas.

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Immaculata University

Immaculata University is a private, co-educational, Roman Catholic university founded by the Sisters, Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary and located in Malvern, Pennsylvania.

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Indiana University

Indiana University (IU) is a multi-campus public university system in the state of Indiana, United States.

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Ipswich Female Seminary

Ipswich Female Seminary in Ipswich, Massachusetts, established in 1828, was a female seminary, an early school for the secondary and tertiary-level education of young women.

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Ipswich, Massachusetts

Ipswich is a coastal town in Essex County, Massachusetts, United States.

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James Madison University

James Madison University (also known as JMU, Madison, or James Madison) is a public coeducational research university located in Harrisonburg, Virginia, United States.

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Joanne V. Creighton

Joanne Vanish Creighton, Ph.D. (born 1942) is an American academic who served as the 17th President of Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, Massachusetts from 1996-2010.

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Johnson & Wales University

Johnson & Wales University (JWU) is an American private, nonprofit, co-educational, career-oriented university with one main and three branch campuses located throughout the United States.

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Judson College (Alabama)

This article is about the college in Alabama.

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Junior college

A junior college is a post-secondary educational institution designed to prepare students for either skilled trades or for additional education at another college with more advanced academic material.

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Kirkland College

Kirkland College was a small, private liberal arts women's college located in Clinton, New York, from 1968 to 1978.

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LaGrange College

LaGrange College is a private, four-year liberal arts and sciences college located in LaGrange, Georgia.

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LaGrange, Georgia

LaGrange is a city and the county seat of Troup County, Georgia, United States.

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Lambuth University

Lambuth University was a liberal arts university located in Jackson, Tennessee, United States.

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Lasell College

Lasell College (LC) is a private, non-sectarian, coeducational college located in the Newton, Massachusetts, United States, village of Auburndale.

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Lenoir, North Carolina

Lenoir is a city in Caldwell County, North Carolina, United States.

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Lesley University

Lesley University is a private, coeducational university in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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Lexington, Kentucky

Lexington, consolidated with Fayette County and often denoted as Lexington-Fayette, is the second-largest city in Kentucky and the 60th-largest city in the United States.

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Liberal arts colleges in the United States

Liberal arts colleges in the United States are certain undergraduate institutions of higher education in the United States.

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Limestone College

Limestone College is a private four-year, coeducational liberal arts college located in Gaffney, South Carolina.

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Lindenwood University

Lindenwood University is a private, coeducational, liberal arts university located in Saint Charles, Missouri, United States.

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List of current and historical women's universities and colleges in the United States

The following is a series of lists of women's colleges in the United States.

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Litchfield Female Academy

The Litchfield Female Academy in Litchfield, Connecticut, founded in 1792 by Sarah Pierce, was one of the most important institutions of female education in the United States.

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Litchfield, Connecticut

Litchfield is a town in and former county seat of Litchfield County, Connecticut, United States.

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Longwood University

Longwood University is a four-year public liberal arts university located in Farmville, Virginia, United States.

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Louisburg College

Louisburg College is a private Methodist-affiliated two-year college located in Louisburg, North Carolina.

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Louisville, Kentucky

Louisville is the largest city in the Commonwealth of Kentucky and the 29th most-populous city in the United States.

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Loyola Marymount University

Loyola Marymount University (LMU) is a private, co-educational university in the Jesuit and Marymount traditions located in the Westchester neighborhood of Los Angeles, California.

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Loyola University Chicago

Loyola University Chicago (often referred to as Loyola or LUC) is a private Catholic research university in Chicago, Illinois.

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Lynnland Female Institute

Lynnland Female Institute was a private women's liberal arts college located in Glendale, Kentucky, a small community in Hardin County.

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MacMurray College

MacMurray College is a four-year, professionally focused private college located in Jacksonville, Illinois.

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Manhattanville College

Manhattanville College is a private, coeducational liberal arts college offering undergraduate and graduate degrees, located in the village of Harrison near Purchase, New York, in suburban Westchester County, north of New York City.

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Margaret Morrison Carnegie College

Margaret Morrison Carnegie College (MMCC) was the women's college for Carnegie Mellon University.

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Marion, Alabama

Marion is a city in, and the county seat of, Perry County, Alabama, United States.

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Mary Allen Seminary

Mary Allen Seminary (later called Mary Allen Junior College) was the first black women's college in the state of Texas.

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Mary Baldwin University

Mary Baldwin University (abbreviated as MBU), formerly Mary Baldwin College, is a private liberal arts, master's-level university in Staunton, Virginia, USA.

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Mary Lyon

Mary Mason Lyon (February 28, 1797 – March 5, 1849) was an American pioneer in women's education.

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Mary Sharp College

Mary Sharp College (1851–1896), first known as the Tennessee and Alabama Female Institute, was a women's college, located in Winchester, Tennessee.

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Marymount Manhattan College

Marymount Manhattan College is a coeducational, independent, private college located in Manhattan, New York City.

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Massachusetts

Massachusetts, officially known as the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, is the most populous state in the New England region of the northeastern United States.

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Mercer University

Mercer University is the oldest private university in Georgia with its main campus in Macon, Georgia, United States.

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Mercyhurst University

Mercyhurst University, formerly Mercyhurst College, is a Catholic liberal arts college in Erie, Pennsylvania in the United States.

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Meredith College

Meredith College is a women's liberal arts college and coeducational graduate school located in Raleigh, North Carolina.

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Meridian Female College

The Meridian Female College was a female seminary, founded in 1865 in Meridian, Mississippi by members of the Mississippi Baptist Convention.

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Miami University

Miami University (also referred to as Miami of Ohio or simply Miami) is a public research university on a 2,138-acre campus in Oxford, Ohio, 35 miles north of Cincinnati.

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Midway College School of Pharmacy

Midway College School of Pharmacy was a proposed private pharmacy school planned to open in Paintsville, Kentucky, United States.

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Midway University

Midway University is an independent, liberal arts university with approximately 1,200 students located in Midway, Kentucky.

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Millersburg Military Institute

Millersburg Military Institute (MMI) was a military boarding school founded in 1893 in Millersburg, Kentucky, about northeast of Lexington, Kentucky.

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Millersburg, Kentucky

Millersburg is a home rule-class city in Bourbon County, Kentucky, in the United States.

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Mills College

Mills College is a liberal arts and sciences college located in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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Mississippi

Mississippi is a state in the Southern United States, with part of its southern border formed by the Gulf of Mexico.

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Mississippi River

The Mississippi River is the chief river of the second-largest drainage system on the North American continent, second only to the Hudson Bay drainage system.

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Mississippi University for Women

Mississippi University for Women, also known as MUW or "The W", is a four-year coeducational public university located in Columbus, Mississippi, United States.

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Mississippi University for Women v. Hogan

Mississippi University for Women v. Hogan,, was a case decided 5-4 by the Supreme Court of the United States.

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Mixed-sex education

Mixed-sex education, also known as mixed-gender education, co-education or coeducation (abbreviated to co-ed or coed), is a system of education where males and females are educated together.

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Moore College of Art and Design

Moore College of Art & Design is an independent college of art and design in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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Moravian Church

The Moravian Church, formally named the Unitas Fratrum (Latin for "Unity of the Brethren"), in German known as Brüdergemeine (meaning "Brethren's Congregation from Herrnhut", the place of the Church's renewal in the 18th century), is one of the oldest Protestant denominations in the world with its heritage dating back to the Bohemian Reformation in the fifteenth century and the Unity of the Brethren (Czech: Jednota bratrská) established in the Kingdom of Bohemia.

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Moravian College

Moravian College, a private liberal-arts college, and the associated Moravian Theological Seminary are located in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, United States, in the Lehigh Valley region.

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Mount Hermon Female Seminary

Mount Hermon Female Sanctuary (18751924) in Clinton, Mississippi was a historically black institution of higher education for women.

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Mount Holyoke College

Mount Holyoke College is a liberal arts college for women, in South Hadley, Massachusetts, United States.

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Mount Mary University

Mount Mary University (formerly Mount Mary College) is a private, not-for-profit, Catholic liberal arts university located on an 80-acre campus in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

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Mount Sacred Heart College

Mount Sacred Heart College was a small Catholic women's college in Hamden, Connecticut.

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Mount Saint Agnes College

Mount Saint Agnes College was a Catholic women's college located in the Mount Washington neighborhood of Baltimore, Maryland.

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Mount St. Joseph University

The Mount St.

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Mount St. Mary's University (Los Angeles)

Mount Saint Mary's University (known as Mount St. Mary's College until January 2015) is a private, independent, Catholic liberal arts college, primarily for women, in Los Angeles, California, United States.

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Mount Vernon Seminary and College

The Mount Vernon Seminary and College was a private women's college in Washington, D.C. It merged with George Washington University in 1999 and is now known as the Mount Vernon Campus of The George Washington University.

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Mundelein College

Mundelein College was the last private, independent, Roman Catholic women's college in Illinois.

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North Carolina

North Carolina is a U.S. state in the southeastern region of the United States.

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Notre Dame College

Notre Dame College, also known as Notre Dame College of Ohio or simply NDC, is a Catholic, coeducational, liberal arts college in South Euclid, Ohio, United States.

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Notre Dame de Namur University

Notre Dame de Namur University (NDNU) — formerly the College of Notre Dame — is a private coeducational Catholic university located in Belmont, California, in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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Notre Dame of Maryland University

Notre Dame of Maryland University is a private, Catholic-affiliated, university located in Baltimore, Maryland, United States.

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Ohio

Ohio is a Midwestern state in the Great Lakes region of the United States.

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Ohio Wesleyan Female College

Ohio Wesleyan Female College was founded in 1853 in Delaware, Ohio.

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Ohio Wesleyan University

Ohio Wesleyan University (also known as Wesleyan or OWU) is a private liberal arts college in Delaware, Ohio, United States.

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Oread Institute

The Oread Institute was a women's college founded in Worcester, Massachusetts in 1849 by Eli Thayer.

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Ottumwa Heights College

Ottumwa Heights College began as a liberal arts women's college based in Ottumwa, Iowa.

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Owensboro, Kentucky

Owensboro is a home rule-class city in and the county seat of Daviess County, Kentucky, United States.

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Pembroke College in Brown University

Pembroke College in Brown University was the coordinate women's college for Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island.

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Pepper Pike, Ohio

Pepper Pike is an eastern suburb of the Greater Cleveland area in the US state of Ohio.

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Philadelphia School of Design for Women

Philadelphia School of Design for Women (1848–1932) was an art school for women in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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Pine Manor College

Pine Manor College (PMC) is a private, liberal arts college located in the Chestnut Hill area of Brookline, a suburb of Boston, Massachusetts.

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Pitzer College

Pitzer College is a private residential liberal arts college located in Claremont, California, United States.

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Port Gibson Female College

Port Gibson Female College was a female seminary, founded in Port Gibson, Mississippi, in 1843.

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Princeton University

Princeton University is a private Ivy League research university in Princeton, New Jersey.

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Princeton, New Jersey

Princeton is a municipality with a borough form of government in Mercer County, New Jersey, United States, that was established in its current form on January 1, 2013, through the consolidation of the Borough of Princeton and Princeton Township.

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Providence, Rhode Island

Providence is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Rhode Island and is one of the oldest cities in the United States.

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Queens University of Charlotte

Queens University of Charlotte is a private, co-educational, comprehensive university located in Charlotte, North Carolina, United States.

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Radcliffe College

Radcliffe College was a women's liberal arts college in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and functioned as a female coordinate institution for the all-male Harvard College.

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Raleigh, North Carolina

Raleigh is the capital of the state of North Carolina and the seat of Wake County in the United States.

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Randolph College

Randolph College is a private liberal arts and sciences college in Lynchburg, Virginia.

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Regis College (Massachusetts)

Regis College is a private Roman Catholic university located on a former estate in the suburb of Weston, Massachusetts.

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Richmond, Virginia

Richmond is the capital of the Commonwealth of Virginia in the United States.

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Roanoke, Virginia

Roanoke is an independent city in the U.S. state of Virginia.

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Rocky Mountains

The Rocky Mountains, also known as the Rockies, are a major mountain range in western North America.

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Rosemont College

Rosemont College is a private, coeducational, Catholic liberal arts college in southeastern Pennsylvania in the town of Rosemont, west of Philadelphia within the Archdiocese of Philadelphia.

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Russell Sage College

Russell Sage College (often Russell Sage or RSC) is a women's college located in Troy, New York, approximately north of New York City in the Capital District.

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Rutgers University

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, commonly referred to as Rutgers University, Rutgers, or RU, is an American public research university and is the largest institution of higher education in New Jersey.

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Saint Joseph's College of Maine

Saint Joseph's College of Maine is a private Catholic liberal arts college in Standish, Maine, that grants bachelor's degrees in a traditional on-campus setting, as well as bachelor's and master's degrees via online education.

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Saint Mary's College (Indiana)

Saint Mary's College is a four-year, Catholic, residential, women's liberal arts college located in Notre Dame, an unincorporated community north of the city of South Bend, in St. Joseph County, Indiana, United States—as are the University of Notre Dame and Holy Cross College.

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Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College

Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College (SMWC), is a Roman Catholic, four-year liberal arts college located in Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, in the U.S. state of Indiana, northwest of Terre Haute, between the Wabash River and the Illinois state line.

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Salem College

Salem College is a liberal arts women's college in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States, founded in 1772.

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Sarah Lawrence College

Sarah Lawrence College is a private liberal arts college in the United States.

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Sarah Pierce

Sarah Pierce (June 26, 1767 – January 19, 1852) was a teacher, educator and founder of one of the earliest schools for girls in the United States, the Litchfield Female Academy in Litchfield, Connecticut.

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Sayre School

Sayre School is an independent, co-educational school in Lexington, Kentucky.

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Scripps College

Scripps College is a liberal arts women's college founded in 1926 in Claremont, California, United States, with an enrollment of 989 students as of 2017.

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Secondary school

A secondary school is both an organization that provides secondary education and the building where this takes place.

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Seton Hill University

Seton Hill University is a Catholic liberal arts university of about 2,500 students in Greensburg, Pennsylvania, near Pittsburgh.

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Seven Sisters (colleges)

The Seven Sisters was a name given to seven liberal arts colleges in the Northeastern United States that are historically women's colleges.

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Sharon Female College

Sharon Female College was a female seminary, founded in 1837 in Sharon, Mississippi.

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Shimer College

Shimer College (pronounced) was an American Great Books college located initially in Mount Carroll, then Waukegan and finally Chicago, Illinois.

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Shorter University

Shorter University is a private, coeducational, liberal arts university located in Rome, Georgia.

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Simmons College

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Skidmore College

Skidmore College is a private, independent liberal arts college in Saratoga Springs, New York.

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Smith College

Smith College is a private, independent women's liberal arts college with coed graduate and certificate programs in Northampton, Massachusetts.

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Southern United States

The Southern United States, also known as the American South, Dixie, Dixieland, or simply the South, is a region of the United States of America.

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Southern Virginia University

Southern Virginia University (SVU) is a liberal arts college located in Buena Vista, Virginia.

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Spalding University

Spalding University is a private, co-educational university in Louisville, Kentucky affiliated with the Sisters of Charity of Nazareth.

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Spelman College

Spelman College is a four-year liberal arts women's college located in Atlanta, Georgia, United States.

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St. Catherine University

St.

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St. Charles, Missouri

Saint Charles is a city in, and the county seat of, Saint Charles County, Missouri, United States.

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St. Joseph's College (Brooklyn/Patchogue, New York)

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Staunton, Virginia

Staunton is an independent city in the U.S. Commonwealth of Virginia.

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Stephens College

Stephens College is a women's college located in Columbia, Missouri.

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Stern College for Women

The Stern College for Women (SCW) is the undergraduate women's college of arts and sciences of Yeshiva University.

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Sullins College

Sullins College was a former Methodist, female, junior college in Bristol, Virginia, United States, founded about 1868 and named for David Sullins, a Methodist minister.

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Supreme Court of the United States

The Supreme Court of the United States (sometimes colloquially referred to by the acronym SCOTUS) is the highest federal court of the United States.

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Susanna Rowson

Susanna Rowson, née Haswell (1762 – 2 March 1824) was a British-American novelist, poet, playwright, religious writer, stage actress, and educator.

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Sweet Briar College

Sweet Briar College is a women's liberal arts college in Sweet Briar, Virginia, United States, about north of Lynchburg.

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Synodical College

Synodical College provided education for young women and was a successor institution to the Fulton Female Academy opened by Rev.

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Texas

Texas (Texas or Tejas) is the second largest state in the United States by both area and population.

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Texas Woman's University

Texas Woman's University (historically the College of Industrial Arts and Texas State College for Women, commonly known as TWU) is a co-educational university in Denton, Texas, United States, with two health science center branches in Dallas and Houston.

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The Boston Globe

The Boston Globe (sometimes abbreviated as The Globe) is an American daily newspaper founded and based in Boston, Massachusetts, since its creation by Charles H. Taylor in 1872.

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The Roanoke Times

The Roanoke Times is the primary newspaper in Southwestern Virginia and is based in Roanoke, Virginia, United States.

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Thomas More College (Kentucky)

Thomas More College is a liberal arts college located in Crestview Hills, Kentucky, a suburb near Cincinnati, Ohio.

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Tift College

Tift College was a private liberal arts women's college located in Forsyth, Georgia.

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Todd County, Kentucky

Todd County is a county located in the U.S. state of Kentucky.

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Trinity Washington University

Trinity Washington University is a Roman Catholic university located in Washington, D.C. across from The Catholic University of America and the Dominican House of Studies and under the trusteeship of the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur.

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Troy, New York

Troy is a city in the U.S. state of New York and the seat of Rensselaer County.

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Union Army

During the American Civil War, the Union Army referred to the United States Army, the land force that fought to preserve the Union of the collective states.

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United States Department of Education

The United States Department of Education (ED or DoED), also referred to as the ED for (the) Education Department, is a Cabinet-level department of the United States government.

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University of Denver

The University of Denver (DU) is a research coeducational, four-year university in Denver, Colorado.

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University of Detroit Mercy

The University of Detroit Mercy is a private, Roman Catholic co-educational university in Detroit, Michigan, United States, sponsored by both the Society of Jesus (the Jesuits) and the Religious Sisters of Mercy.

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University of Mary Hardin–Baylor

The University of Mary Hardin–Baylor (UMHB) is a Christian co-educational institution of higher learning located in Belton, Texas, United States.

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University of Mary Washington

The University of Mary Washington (UMW) is a public liberal arts and sciences university located in Fredericksburg, Virginia.

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University of Massachusetts Press

The University of Massachusetts Press is a university press that is part of the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

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University of Memphis

The University of Memphis, also called The U of M, is an American public research university located in the Normal Station neighborhood of Memphis, Tennessee.

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University of North Carolina at Greensboro

The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG), also known as UNC Greensboro, is a public coeducational and Research university in Greensboro, North Carolina, United States and is a constituent institution of the University of North Carolina system.

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University of Saint Joseph (Connecticut)

The University of Saint Joseph is a Roman Catholic comprehensive institution of higher education and an undergraduate coeducational university with graduate programs.

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University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma

The University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma, or USAO, is a public liberal arts college located in Chickasha, Oklahoma.

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University of the Incarnate Word

The University of the Incarnate Word (UIW) is a private Catholic university whose main campus is located in San Antonio and Alamo Heights, Texas, United States.

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University of Virginia

The University of Virginia (U.Va. or UVA), frequently referred to simply as Virginia, is a public research university and the flagship for the Commonwealth of Virginia.

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University of West Alabama

The University of West Alabama (abbreviated as UWA) is a public university located in Livingston, Alabama, United States.

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Ursuline College

For the English Catholic Sports College, based in Westgate, see Ursuline College, Westgate-on-Sea.

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Ursulines

The term Ursulines refers to a number of religious institutes of the Catholic Church.

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Vassar College

Vassar College is a private, coeducational, liberal arts college in the town of Poughkeepsie, New York, in the United States.

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Vicksburg, Mississippi

Vicksburg is the only city in, and county seat of Warren County, Mississippi, United States.

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Virginia Union University

Virginia Union University (VUU) is a historically black university located in Richmond, Virginia, United States.

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Washington Female Seminary

The Washington Female Seminary was a Presbyterian seminary for women operating from 1836 to 1948 in Washington, Pennsylvania.

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Wellesley College

Wellesley College is a private women's liberal arts college located west of Boston in the town of Wellesley, Massachusetts, United States.

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Wells College

Wells College is a private coeducational liberal arts college in Aurora, Cayuga County, New York, on the eastern shore of Cayuga Lake.

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Wesleyan College

Wesleyan College is a private, liberal arts women's college located in Macon, Georgia, United States.

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Western College for Women

Western College for Women, known locally as Western College, was primarily a women's college in Oxford, Ohio between 1855 and 1974.

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Wheaton College (Massachusetts)

Wheaton College is a four-year, private liberal arts college with a student body of approximately 1,650.

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Whitworth Female College

Whitworth Female College was a Methodist women's college in Brookhaven, Mississippi, founded in 1858 by Milton Whitworth.

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William Peace University

William Peace University is a small liberal arts college in downtown Raleigh, North Carolina, United States.

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Wilson College (Pennsylvania)

Wilson College, founded 1869, is a private, Presbyterian-related, liberal arts college located on a campus in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, United States.

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Winston-Salem, North Carolina

Winston-Salem is a city in and the county seat of Forsyth County, North Carolina, United States. With a 2015 estimated population of 241,218, it is the second largest municipality in the Piedmont Triad region and the 5th-most populous city in North Carolina, and the 89th-most populous city in the United States. Winston-Salem is home to the tallest office building in the region, 100 North Main Street, formerly the Wachovia Building and now known locally as the Wells Fargo Center. Winston-Salem is called the "Twin City" for its dual heritage and "City of the Arts and Innovation" for its dedication to fine arts and theater and technological research. "Camel City" is a reference to the city's historic involvement in the tobacco industry related to locally based R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company's Camel cigarettes. Many locals refer to the city as "Winston" in informal speech. Another nickname, "the Dash," comes from the (-) in the city's name, although technically it is a hyphen, not a dash; this nickname is only used by the local minor league baseball team, the Winston-Salem Dash. In 2012, the city was listed among the 10 best places to retire in the U.S. by CBS MoneyWatch.

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Woman

A woman is an adult female human being.

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Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania

The Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania (WMCP) was founded in 1850, was the second medical institution in the world established to train women in medicine and offer them the M.D. degree.

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Women's college

Women's colleges in higher education are undergraduate, bachelor's degree-granting institutions, often liberal arts colleges, whose student populations are composed exclusively or almost exclusively of women.

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Women's College Coalition

The Women's College Coalition (WCC) was founded in 1972 and describes itself as an "association of women’s colleges and universities that are two- and four-year, public and private, religiously affiliated and secular.".

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Women's College of the University of Denver

Colorado Women’s College (CWC) is one of eight undergraduate colleges at the University of Denver and the Rocky Mountain Region’s only all-women’s college.

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Women's colleges in the Southern United States

Women's colleges in the Southern United States refers to undergraduate, bachelor's degree–granting institutions, often liberal arts colleges, whose student populations consist exclusively or almost exclusively of women, located in the Southern United States.

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Women's colleges in the United States

Women's colleges in the United States are single-sex U.S. institutions of higher education that only admit female students.

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Worcester, Massachusetts

Worcester is a city and the county seat of Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States.

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World War II

World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.

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Zilpah P. Grant Banister

Zilpah Polly Grant Banister (May 30, 1794 – December 3, 1874) was an American educator known primarily for founding Ipswich Female Seminary in Ipswich, Massachusetts in 1828.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_women's_colleges_in_the_United_States

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