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Women's colleges in higher education are undergraduate, bachelor's degree-granting institutions, often liberal arts colleges, whose student populations are comprised exclusively or almost exclusively of women. Some women's colleges admit male students to their graduate schools or in smaller numbers to undergraduate programs, but all serve a primarily female student body.

Women's colleges around the world

Main article: List of current and historical women's universities and colleges

Women's colleges in Asia

  • Ehwa Woman's University in South Korea.

Women's colleges in Europe

United Kingdom

Women's colleges in the Middle East

  • Royal University for Women, Kingdom of Bahrain

Women's colleges in North America

United States

See main article: Women's colleges in the United States


Women's colleges in the United States were primarily founded during the early 19th century. According to Irene Harwarth, Mindi Maline, and Elizabeth DeBra, "women's colleges were founded during the mid- and late-19th century in response to a need for advanced education for women at a time when they were not admitted to most institutions of higher education." [1] While there were a few coeducational colleges (such as Oberlin College founded in 1833, Antioch College in 1853, and Bates College in 1855), most colleges and universities of high standing at that time were exclusively for men.

See also

References

1. ^ Harwarth, Irene. "Women's Colleges in the United States: History, Issues, and Challenges", ed.gov. Retrieved on 2006-10-14. 

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This is a list of current and historical women's colleges.

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Established 1954
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Women's colleges in the United States are institutions of higher education in the United States whose student populations are comprised exclusively or almost exclusively of women. They are often liberal arts colleges. There are approximately sixty active women's colleges in the U.S.
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