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] Monmouth College (admits women on equal basis from beginning) [20] |
| 1854 | Muskingum University [22] Pacific University (co-ed secondary classes began in 1849) [23] Urbana University (co-ed secondary classes began in 1850) [24] [25] |
| 1855 | Eureka College (admits women on an equal basis with men at its founding) [26] Bates College [27] [28] |
| 1856 | Baldwin University (now Baldwin Wallace University) (co-ed secondary classes began in 1845) [29] University of Evansville (formerly Moore's Hill College) [30] St. Lawrence University [31] 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) [32] [33] Hamline University (co-ed secondary classes began in 1854) [34] |
| 1858 | University of Mount Union (co-ed classes began in 1846; chartered as college in 1858) [35] |
| 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) [36] Cooper Union (free college; enrollment open to all genders, races, religions, economic classes) [37] [38] |
| 1860 | Wheaton College (Illinois) [40] |
| 1861 | Plainfield College [41] Grinnell College [42] |
| 1862 | Baker University (co-ed secondary classes began in 1858)[ citation needed ] |
| 1863 | Kansas State University [43] [44] |
| 1864 | Swarthmore College [45] Blackburn College [46] |
| 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) [47] [48] |
| 1867 | Carleton College [49] DePauw University [50] Hiram College (co-ed secondary classes began in 1850)[ citation needed ] Indiana University [51] [52] Lebanon Valley College [53] McDaniel College [54] |
| 1868 | University of Missouri [55] 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 [57] Boston University [58] Iowa State University [59] [60] University of Kansas (co-ed secondary classes began in 1866) [61] Northwestern University [62] Ohio University [63] Washington University in St. Louis [17] |
| 1870 | Allegheny College [64] University of California, Berkeley [52] [65] Carthage College [66] Cornell University [67] [68] University of Illinois [52] University of Iowa Medical School [69] Knox College [70] Michigan State University [71] College of Wooster [72] |
| 1871 | California Wesleyan College Colby College [73] (until 1890, when women were resegregated into separate classes) [52] University of Michigan [74] University of Nebraska-Lincoln [52] Pennsylvania State University [75] Syracuse University [2] University of Vermont |
| 1872 | Tusculum College [76] University of Akron (at that time "Buchtel College")[ citation needed ] University of Maine [52] 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) [77] |
| 1873 | North Georgia Agricultural College, subsequently North Georgia College & State University; since 2013 merged into the University of North Georgia)[ citation needed ] Ohio State University [52] Susquehanna University [78] Texas Christian University [ citation needed ] |
| 1875 | Purdue University [79] St. Olaf College [80] |
| 1876 | University of Oregon [52] |
| 1877 | University of Colorado at Boulder [52] Ohio Wesleyan University [81] |
| 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) [82] University of Southern California [ citation needed ] Ursinus College [83] |
| 1881 | Coe College [ citation needed ] Hendrix College [ citation needed ] |
| 1882 | University of South Dakota [ citation needed ] |
| 1883 | Bucknell University [68] 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.) [84] Middlebury College [ citation needed ] University of Texas [ citation needed ] |
| 1884 | University of North Dakota [52] |
| 1885 | University of Mississippi [ citation needed ] |
| 1886 | University of Nevada, Reno [52] |
| 1887 | Baylor University [ citation needed ] Gallaudet University (at the time "National Deaf-Mute College) [85] Occidental College Pomona College [ citation needed ] Stetson University (co-ed secondary classes began in 1883) University of Wyoming [52] |
| 1888 | George Washington University Guilford College (co-ed secondary classes began in 1837; it became a college in 1888) [86] University of Kentucky Tulane University Pharmaceutical School |
| 1889 | Elon University [87] West Virginia University [88] |
| 1891 | University of Arizona [52] 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) [52] University of New Mexico [52] University of Oklahoma [52] American International College [89] |
| 1893 | University of Alabama [52] University of Connecticut Johns Hopkins University Graduate School Macalester College [90] University of Tennessee |
| 1894 | Boalt Hall [91] |
| 1895 | Beloit College University of Montana [52] 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) |
The original 1849 charter specifies 'a Seminary of learning for the instruction of both sexes in science and literature.'
university of illinois coeducational 1870.
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