List of mixed-sex colleges and universities in the United States

The following is a list of mixed-sex colleges and universities in the United States, listed in the order that mixed-sex students were admitted to degree-granting college-level courses.

Many of the earliest mixed-education institutes offered co-educational secondary school-level classes for three or four years before co-ed college-level courses began – these situations are noted in the parentheticals below.

Earliest mixed-sex higher education institutes (through 19th century)

• Schools that were previously all-female are listed in bold.

1827	Cumberland College[1][2][3]
1830	Mississippi College (co-ed secondary classes began in 1826)[4]
1837	Oberlin College (co-ed secondary classes began in 1833)[5][6][7][8]
1844	Hillsdale College[9]
1845	Franklin College (co-ed secondary-level classes began in 1842 at "Indiana Baptist Manual Labor Institute"; chartered as Franklin College in 1845)[10][11]
1847	Baylor College (until 1851 Baylor offered "coeducation" in the same building, although in separate classes; after 1851 the school fully segregated the sexes until 1887)[12][13][14]
1849	New-York Central College (disestablished 1860) Otterbein University[15]
1851	Waynesburg College[16]
1852	Westminster College[17]
1853	Antioch College[18] Lawrence University (co-ed secondary classes began in 1849)[19] Willamette University (co-ed secondary classes began in 1842)[20]
1854	Muskingum University[21] Pacific University (co-ed secondary classes began in 1849)[22] Urbana University (co-ed secondary classes began in 1850)[23]
1855	Bates College[24][25] University of Iowa (first coeducational public or state university in the United States)[6][7]
1856	Baldwin University (now Baldwin Wallace University) (co-ed secondary classes began in 1845)[26] St. Lawrence University[27] Wilberforce University (first coeducational HBCU in the United States)
1857	Alfred University (co-ed secondary classes began in 1836; it received its university charter in 1857)[28][29] Hamline University (co-ed secondary classes began in 1854)[30]
1858	University of Mount Union (co-ed classes began in 1846; chartered as college in 1858)[31]
1859	Cooper Union Olivet College (co-ed secondary classes began in 1844; chartered as college in 1859)[32]
1862	Baker University (co-ed secondary classes began in 1858)
1863	Kansas State University[33][34]
1866	University of Wisconsin–Madison (women admitted to classes in the "Normal Department" in 1863 and all college classes about 1866, although separate Female College and separate graduation existed until 1874)[35][36]
1867	Carleton College[37] DePauw University[38] Hiram College (co-ed secondary classes began in 1850) Indiana University[8][39] Lebanon Valley College[40] McDaniel College[41][42]
1868	Oregon State University (co-ed secondary classes began about 1858; chartered as college in 1868) University of Missouri[43]
1869	Berea College[44] Boston University[45] Iowa State University[46][47] University of Kansas (co-ed secondary classes began in 1866)[48] University of Minnesota Northwestern University[49] Ohio University[50] Swarthmore College[51] Washington University in St. Louis[18]
1870	University of California, Berkeley[39][52] Cornell University[53][54] University of Illinois[39] University of Iowa Medical School[55] Knox College[56] Michigan State University[57] College of Wooster[58]
1871	California Wesleyan College Colby College[59] (until 1890, when women were resegregated into separate classes)[39] University of Michigan[60] University of Nebraska-Lincoln[39] Pennsylvania State University[61] Syracuse University[7] University of Vermont
1872	University of Akron (at that time "Buchtel College") University of Maine[39] University of Washington (co-ed secondary classes began in 1861; the school was closed at various times between 1862 and 1869)[62] Wesleyan University (until 1912, when it became all male once again)[63]
1873	North Georgia College & State University (then North Georgia Agricultural College; since 2013 merged into the University of North Georgia) Ohio State University[39] Texas Christian University
1875	Purdue University[64] St. Olaf College[65]
1876	University of Oregon[39]
1877	Ohio Wesleyan University[66] University of Colorado at Boulder[39]
1878	Hope College
1880	Emerson College University of Pennsylvania (women previously admitted to non-degree-granting programs in 1876)[67] University of Southern California Bridgewater College (the first private liberal arts college in Virginia to be co-ed, and one of the first of its kind in the south)
1881	Coe College Hendrix College
1882	University of South Dakota
1883	Bucknell University[54] Florida State University (The school was a coeducational seminary beginning in 1851, and was chartered as a coeducational university in 1883. However, in 1905, a reorganization of the state's higher education system converted what was then Florida State College to a women's school, Florida State College for Women. It returned to coeducation in 1947, adopting its current name at that time.)[68] Middlebury College University of Texas
1884	University of North Dakota[39]
1885	University of Mississippi
1886	University of Nevada, Reno[39]
1887	Baylor University Pomona College Stetson University (co-ed secondary classes began in 1883) University of Wyoming[39]
1888	George Washington University Guilford College (co-ed secondary classes began in 1837; it became a college in 1888)[69] University of Kentucky Pomona College Tulane University Pharmaceutical School
1889	West Virginia University[70] Elon University[71]
1891	University of Arizona[39] College of Idaho Stanford University George Fox University (at that time "Pacific College")
1892	Auburn University University of Chicago (women resegregated into separate classes in 1902 for their first two years)[39] University of New Mexico[39] University of Oklahoma[39]
1893	University of Alabama[39] University of Connecticut Johns Hopkins University Graduate School Macalester College[72] University of Tennessee
1894	Boalt Hall[73]
1895	Beloit College University of Montana[39] University of Pittsburgh University of South Carolina
1897	University at Buffalo Law School University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (graduate students)
1899	Eastern Michigan University (co-ed classes in the "Normal school" began 1852; chartered as college in 1899)

Dates USA educational institutions became mixed-sex through 2012

• Virtually all of the thousands of institutions of higher education that were founded after Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 are coeducational.
• Schools that were previously all-female are listed in bold.

Year	Institution
1900	Denison University
	University of Rochester[7]
	University of Virginia (nursing only)
1902	Miami University
1904	Louisiana State University
1908	Reed College
1909	Marquette University[74] (first coeducational Roman Catholic university in the world)
	Tulane University School of Dentistry
1912	Rice University
1914	Tulane University Medical School
	University of Pennsylvania Medical School
1916	DePaul University[75]
1917	Georgia Tech (until 1934)
1918	The College of William & Mary
	University of Georgia
1920	Loyola Law School, Los Angeles
	University of Virginia (graduate students)
1921	Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
1922	Northeastern University School of Law
1926	Centre College
1930	Roanoke College
1931	Seattle University
1933	Furman University
1937	University of Dayton
1941	St. John's College
1942	Clark University
	Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
	Wake Forest University
1944	Bard College
1945	Thomas More College (Kentucky) (then Villa Madonna College)
1946	James Madison University (de facto; then known as Madison College)
	Le Moyne College (first Jesuit school founded as a coeducational institution)
1947	Florida State University (originally coeducational, but a women's college from 1905–1947)[68]
	University of Florida
1948	Brandeis University
	Gonzaga University
1950	Shimer College[76]
1952	Lincoln University
1953	Georgia Tech (some programs)
	Harvard Law School
1955	Harvey Mudd College (first woman graduated in 1960)
1959	New York University (Women first enrolled in classes in 1873 at the School of Arts (non-degree program), and later at the degree-granting Graduate, Teaching and Law schools in the 1890s. However, women were not eligible for the undergraduate degree program until 1959.)[77][78]
1963	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (all programs)
	University of North Carolina at Greensboro
1964	Texas A&M University
	University of San Francisco
1965	Hampshire College
	University of California, Irvine
1966	James Madison University (official; then known as Madison College)
	Sarah Lawrence College
1967	Georgia College & State University
1968	Bellarmine University (then Bellarmine College)
	Georgia Tech (all programs)
	Loyola University of Los Angeles (undergraduates in engineering and business)
1969	Connecticut College
	Elmira College
	Franklin & Marshall College (began as a coeducational secondary school in 1787, but the co-ed policy was soon abandoned and it would take 182 years before women were permitted to enroll in the college)[79][80]
	Georgetown University
	Kenyon College
	La Salle University
	MacMurray College
	Mercyhurst University (then Mercyhurst College)
	Princeton University
	Saint Mary's University of Minnesota
	Siena Heights University
	Trinity College (Connecticut)
	Tulane University
	University of the South
	Vassar College
	Yale University
1970	Boston College
	Colgate University
	Fairfield University
	University of the Incarnate Word (then College of the Incarnate Word)
	Johns Hopkins University
	Pitzer College
	University of Mary Washington
	Union College
	University of Virginia (all programs)
	Wesleyan University (previously coeducational 1872–1912)[63]
	Williams College
1971	Bowdoin College
	Brown University
	Lehigh University[81]
	Loyola University Maryland[82]
	Robert College
	Skidmore College
	Stevens Institute of Technology
	University of Mary Hardin–Baylor (Founded in 1846 as the women's division of Baylor College, now Baylor University, at the time a coeducational institution but with single-sex classes. Coeducation ended in 1851 with the split of the men's and women's divisions into separate colleges. Beginning in 1922, some men were allowed to attend classes through their junior year, but the school did not award degrees to men until it became fully coeducational in 1971.)
1972	Davidson College
	Dartmouth College
	Radford University
	Stevenson University (then Villa Julie College)[83]
	Texas Woman's University
	University of Notre Dame
	Washington and Lee University School of Law
1973	California Maritime Academy
	Harvard College at Harvard University
	Loyola Marymount University (all undergraduate programs)
	Spalding University (then Spalding College)
1974	Fordham College
	Norwich University
	United States Merchant Marine Academy
1975	Amherst College
1976	Claremont McKenna College
	Longwood University
	United States Air Force Academy
	United States Coast Guard Academy
	United States Military Academy
	United States Naval Academy
1978	Hamilton College
1980	Chestnut Hill College (established a coed graduate program, but remained all-female at the undergraduate level)
	Haverford College
1982	Mississippi University for Women
1983	Columbia College at Columbia University
1985	Washington and Lee University (undergraduate program)
1986	Mount St. Joseph University (then College of Mount St. Joseph)
1987	Goucher College[84]
1991	Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
1993	The Citadel
1994	Southern Virginia University (then Southern Virginia College)
1996	Virginia Military Institute (last state institution of higher learning to become coeducational)
2001	Notre Dame College (Ohio; not to be confused with other institutions bearing the name "Notre Dame")
2002	Seton Hill University
2003	Chestnut Hill College (undergraduate program)
2005	Immaculata University
	Lesley College
2007	Randolph College (previously Randolph–Macon Woman's College)
2012	Georgian Court University
	William Peace University (previously Peace College)

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