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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.
| 1837 | Oberlin College (women were admitted to the "preparatory department" in 1833) [1] [ dead link ] [2] [3] |
| 1844 | Hillsdale College [3] [4] [5] |
| 1845 | Franklin College (co-ed secondary-level classes began in 1842 at "Indiana Baptist Manual Labor Institute"; chartered as Franklin College in 1845) [6] [7] [3] |
| 1847 | Lawrence University 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) [3] [8] [9] [10] [ unreliable source? ] [11] |
| 1847 | Earlham College [12] |
| 1849 | New-York Central College (disestablished 1860) [13] Otterbein University [3] [14] |
| 1851 | Waynesburg College [15] |
| 1852 | Westminster College [16] |
| 1853 | Antioch College [17] Cornell College (originally Iowa Conference Seminary, co-ed classes start with founding 1853) [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] [24] |
| 1855 | Eureka College (First school in Illinois and third in the nation to admit women on an equal basis with men at its founding) [25] Bates College [26] [27] |
| 1856 | Baldwin University (now Baldwin Wallace University) (co-ed secondary classes began in 1845) [28] University of Evansville (formerly Moore's Hill College) [29] St. Lawrence University [30] Wilberforce University (first coeducational HBCU in the United States)[ citation needed ] |
| 1857 | Alfred University (co-ed secondary classes began in 1836; it received its university charter in 1857) [31] [32] Hamline University (co-ed secondary classes began in 1854) [33] |
| 1858 | University of Mount Union (co-ed classes began in 1846; chartered as college in 1858) [34] |
| 1859 | Adrian College (four women enrolled as early as 1855 when Michigan Union College; Adrian itself was open to women from the onset under equal curriculum) [35] Cooper Union (free college; enrollment open to all genders, races, religions, economic classes) [36] [37] |
| 1860 | Wheaton College (Illinois) [39] |
| 1861 | North Central College (as Plainfield College) [40] Grinnell College [41] |
| 1862 | Baker University (co-ed secondary classes began in 1858)[ citation needed ] |
| 1863 | Kansas State University [42] [43] |
| 1864 | Swarthmore College [44] |
| 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) [45] [46] |
| 1867 | Carleton College [47] DePauw University [48] Hiram College (co-ed secondary classes began in 1850)[ citation needed ] Indiana University [49] [50] Lebanon Valley College [51] McDaniel College [52] |
| 1868 | University of Missouri [53] Oregon State University (co-ed secondary classes began about 1858; chartered as college in 1868)[ citation needed ] Wells College (Coeducational in 2005) |
| 1869 | Berea College [55] Boston University [56] Iowa State University [57] [58] University of Kansas (co-ed secondary classes began in 1866) [59] Northwestern University [60] Ohio University [61] Washington University in St. Louis [17] |
| 1870 | Allegheny College [62] University of California, Berkeley [50] [63] Carthage College [64] Cornell University [65] [66] University of Illinois [50] University of Iowa Medical School [67] Knox College [68] Michigan State University [69] College of Wooster [70] |
| 1871 | California Wesleyan College Colby College [71] (until 1890, when women were resegregated into separate classes) [50] University of Michigan [72] University of Nebraska-Lincoln [50] Pennsylvania State University [73] Syracuse University [2] University of Vermont |
| 1872 | Tusculum College [74] University of Akron (at that time "Buchtel College")[ citation needed ] University of Maine [50] University of Washington (co-ed secondary classes began in 1861; the school was closed at various times between 1862 and 1869) Wesleyan University (until 1912, when it became all male once again) [75] |
| 1873 | North Georgia College & State University (then North Georgia Agricultural College; since 2013 merged into the University of North Georgia)[ citation needed ] Ohio State University [50] Susquehanna University [76] Texas Christian University [ citation needed ] |
| 1875 | Purdue University [77] St. Olaf College [78] |
| 1876 | University of Oregon [50] |
| 1877 | University of Colorado at Boulder [50] Ohio Wesleyan University [79] |
| 1878 | Hope College [ citation needed ] |
| 1880 | 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)[ citation needed ] Emerson College [ citation needed ] University of Pennsylvania (women previously admitted to non-degree-granting programs in 1876) [80] University of Southern California [ citation needed ] Ursinus College [81] |
| 1881 | Coe College [ citation needed ] Hendrix College [ citation needed ] |
| 1882 | University of South Dakota [ citation needed ] |
| 1883 | Bucknell University [66] 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.) [82] Middlebury College [ citation needed ] University of Texas [ citation needed ] |
| 1884 | University of North Dakota [50] |
| 1885 | University of Mississippi [ citation needed ] |
| 1886 | University of Nevada, Reno [50] |
| 1887 | Baylor University [ citation needed ] Gallaudet University (at the time "National Deaf-Mute College) [83] Occidental College Pomona College [ citation needed ] Stetson University (co-ed secondary classes began in 1883) University of Wyoming [50] |
| 1888 | George Washington University Guilford College (co-ed secondary classes began in 1837; it became a college in 1888) [84] University of Kentucky Tulane University Pharmaceutical School |
| 1889 | Elon University [85] West Virginia University [86] |
| 1891 | University of Arizona [50] George Fox University (at the time "Pacific College") College of Idaho Stanford University |
| 1892 | Auburn University Greenville University University of Chicago (women resegregated into separate classes in 1902 for their first two years) [50] University of New Mexico [50] University of Oklahoma [50] American International College [87] |
| 1893 | University of Alabama [50] University of Connecticut Johns Hopkins University Graduate School Macalester College [88] University of Tennessee |
| 1894 | Boalt Hall [89] |
| 1895 | Beloit College University of Montana [50] 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) |
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