Men's colleges in the United States

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Hampden-Sydney College, founded in 1775, is the oldest of only three private, non-religious, four-year, all-male colleges in the U.S. Bagby Hall HSC.jpg
Hampden–Sydney College, founded in 1775, is the oldest of only three private, non-religious, four-year, all-male colleges in the U.S.

Men's colleges in the United States are primarily, though not exclusively, those categorized as being undergraduate, bachelor's degree-granting single-sex institutions that admit only men. In the United States, male-only undergraduate higher education was the norm until the 1960s. The few remaining well-known men's colleges are traditional independent liberal arts colleges, though at present the majority are institutions of learning for those preparing for religious vocations, primarily in the Roman Catholic and Orthodox Jewish religious traditions.

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History

Historically, most colleges in the United States were gender-segregated. Alfred University in upstate New York was founded in 1836 as a co-educational institution. Northwestern University and Washington University in St. Louis were some of the first men's colleges to begin admitting women, both doing so in 1869. [1] [2] However, mixed-sex education did not become the norm until much later. Some colleges, such as Wesleyan University began to admit women in 1872, but abandoned the practice in 1912, when it became all-male once again, and would not admit women again until 1972. [3]

By the mid-1960s to early-1970s, most of the remaining male-only institutions began to admit women at the undergraduate level, including Georgetown University (1969), Princeton University (1969), Johns Hopkins University (1970) and Yale University (1969). Claremont McKenna College, then Claremont Men's College, started admitting women in 1976 after being founded as a men's college for World War II veterans on the G.I. Bill. Haverford College admitted its first female students in 1980 andColumbia College of Columbia University held out even longer, not admitting women until 1983. By that point, most men's colleges had already disappeared from the American academic landscape.

In 1990, Virginia Military Institute (VMI), then still all male, was sued by the U.S. Department of Justice for discrimination. The Department of Justice argued that since VMI was a public institution, it could not prevent women from attending based on gender alone. Due to United States v. Virginia , VMI admitted its first female cadets in 1997.

At Tulane University, Tulane College was for men and H. Sophie Newcomb Memorial College was for women. The two merged in 2006 due to the financial devastation to the university after Hurricane Katrina.

Deep Springs College in California, a small two-year school with approximately two dozen students, began admitting women in 2018. [4]

Today

Four-year men's colleges

As of 2024, there are three private, non-religious, four-year, all-male college institutions in the United States. These are:

NameLocationYear FoundedNumber of StudentsEndowment Size
Hampden–Sydney College Hampden Sydney, Virginia 1775993$258 million
Morehouse College Atlanta, Georgia 18672,260$186 million
Wabash College Crawfordsville, Indiana 1832835$385.2 million

In April 2019, Morehouse announced that it would begin admitting transgender men for the first time in 2020, becoming the first standalone all-male college in the U.S. to adopt a policy allowing transgender students. [5]

Two-year men's colleges

Although it now offers associate's degrees, the Williamson Free School of Mechanical Trades in Media, Pennsylvania was established as a free vocational school and is usually not considered a traditional men's college although it is a non-denominational independent institution that enrolls no women. [6] [7] Taking inspiration from Williamson, the Harmel Academy was opened in 2020 as a Catholic vocational school for men. [8] [6]

Counterparts and coordinates

A few men's colleges exist as components of a larger co-educational institution or partnership. Such arrangements were formerly much more common, but most ended with a merger or with one or both institutions becoming co-educational in the second half of the twentieth century.

Morehouse College is the nation's only historically Black men's college and the largest of the three private, non-religious, four-year, all-male colleges in the U.S. Kilgore Campus Center, Morehouse College, 2016.jpg
Morehouse College is the nation's only historically Black men's college and the largest of the three private, non-religious, four-year, all-male colleges in the U.S.

As a member of Atlanta University Center, Morehouse has extensive cross-registration and resource sharing with Spelman College (all women) and Clark Atlanta University (coeducational).

Hampden–Sydney provides a female-only guest house on its campus for female visitors. [9]

Some universities separate their undergraduate students into individual, gender-conscious colleges. Yeshiva University oversees the all-male Yeshiva College as well as the Stern College for Women. The University of Richmond has Richmond College for men and Westhampton College for women. [10] In each of these cases, the individual colleges have their own residence systems, advisors, staff, student governments, and traditions separate from their male or female counterpart.

Several cases exist of men's colleges that are formally independent but have close academic relationships with women's colleges on adjacent campuses. Unlike the single-sex colleges at Yeshiva and Richmond, they are not considered to be two colleges within one larger university, but instead two independent colleges joined in a partnership arrangement. Current examples include Hobart and William Smith Colleges in Geneva, New York and College of Saint Benedict and Saint John's University in Collegeville, Minnesota.

Christian seminaries

Non-denominational Christian

The Master's Seminary (Sun Valley, California)

The Master's University has a Women’s Ministries Certificate of Achievement that is open both to undergraduate students and lay members of the community, out of a desire to "train women for ministry in accordance with the model set by Titus 2, where older women are called to train younger women." [11]

Roman Catholic

While most Roman Catholic seminaries offer degrees limited to men, often, but not necessarily the MDiv, as of 2024, a number of Roman Catholic seminaries in the United States offer degrees to women, and are thus no longer exclusively colleges for men only. This is not an exhaustive list of Roman Catholic seminaries in the United States, but only includes institutions that are confirmed to offer degrees exclusively to men.

Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia

Ukrainian Greek Catholic

Jewish seminaries

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